Mario Bottazzi

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Mario Bottazzi (born February 10, 1950 in Harvington, today in the Wyre Forest District ) is an Austrian actor , musician and singer , partly of Italian descent.

Life

Bottazzi grew up in England as the son of an Italian and a Lower Austrian . In 1963 his family moved to Austria. In 1972 he became an actor and singer in the Theater an der Wien . He sang with Hansi Lang in the 1970s in the Viennese band Nostradamus (LP Aquarium on shadoks music). In 1979 he played in the Vienna Youth Theater , the main role of Alfred in Günter Brödls Who owns the rock and roll? , for which Bottazzi had composed parts of the music. In the same year he appeared together with Rainhard Fendrich in Erwin Halletz ' Die Gräfin vom Naschmarkt at the Theater an der Wien. With Erich Götzinger he created the musical Gottlieb, which premiered in 1979 at the Schauspielhaus Wien . Together with Hubert Kramar he created the musical Zap's Flammende Lungen .

In the 1980s, Bottazzi starred in several TV films such as Neon Mix (director: Peter Gruber , book: Günter Brödl) and Belle's Paradise (1988, director: Ian MacNaughton , book: Günter Brödl). He was also involved in the award-winning documentary Erik Satie - Falsche Fährten (1996, director: Felix Breisach , book: Christian Scheib).

From 1978 to 1980 he wrote a few songs for the Austrian synth-pop band Ganymede . In 1983 he wrote the lyrics for Chip Digit & The Starkids for the song We Love ITI , which made it 17th in the Austrian charts.

In 1983 Bottazzi joined the Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung as a singer, pianist and actor as a replacement for Gert Steinbäcker . In 1990 he left the band after having released the single Bella Bella Signorina in 1984 together with Nina Rieger and the solo single Urlaub in 1989 . He described his reasons for leaving in an interview that he gave to the EAV fan club in 2006.

"I went. For 2 reasons. First, I got less and less to do in the band. And I didn't want to be an extra. But that's ok. As I said: art is not democratic. And secondly, touring and rock star life simply didn't satisfy me. 250 days a year on the road - that's no life. "

- Mario Bottazzi : Fan Club Magazine 01/07

His successor at the EAV was Andy Töfferl , who died in 2012 of a heart attack. In 2005, Bottazzi received an offer from the EAV to take on the 100th anniversary of the EAV tour as the second pianist, but declined this for scheduling reasons.

In 1987 Bottazzi gave the solo evening stories about, about, with and without music in the Künstlerhaus Theater . In 1989 he wrote a few songs for The Form , and in 1990 he wrote the lyrics for Simone, among other things, Austria's contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 No more walls . In 1990 he sang the theme song to Niki List's film Ach Boris , which was released as a single. After leaving the EAV, Bottazzi worked for several years in the field of teacher training for German, English and music. He composed and sang the songs for the English textbook You & Me , which is widely used in Austria , and wrote the German teaching material Rap'n learn: Deutsch-Grammatiktraining (Innsbruck, 2001). In 1998 he wrote the lyrics for the band c-bra .

From 2000 to 2009 he was the managing director of SemiNarren as a trainer and consultant, and also appeared as a business cabaret artist - among others in the Kulisse Wien , in the Theater Center Forum and in the Wiener Metropol .

Filmography

  • 1983: Neon Mix (TV movie)
  • 1988: Belle's Paradise (TV movie)
  • 1988: Evil is always and everywhere: EAV - The chronicle of an (un) certain success (television documentary)

Fonts

  • Mario Bottazzi, Gerhard Müller-Waldheim: Eargames. In: Music & Education. 1/1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marliese Mendel: The fictional interview. on www.DieZeitschrift.at, January 11, 2014
  2. ^ Excerpts from the musical were broadcast on the ORF TV magazine Okay on March 14, 1982.
  3. ^ EAV biography 1980–1989 ( Memento from November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Actions - Fan interview with Mario Bottazzi ( Memento from August 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ a b Mario Bottazzi ; The EAV archive.
  6. ^ EAV biography 1990–1999 ( Memento from November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ EAV biography 2000–2009 ( Memento from November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Bottazzi, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, musician and singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Harvington, now Wyre Forest District