Markus Hering

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Markus Hering, Best Actor with the Nestroy Theater Prize 2008 awarded
Hering with Meret Becker at the Austrian premiere of Life is Too Long (2010)

Markus Hering (born April 26, 1960 in Siegen ) is a freelance German film and theater actor and was a member of the Burgtheater for many years .

biography

Hering grew up in the Siegerland village of Holzhausen . In 1979 he passed his Abitur at the Evangelical State School at the Gate in Meinerzhagen in the same class as the diplomat Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut and the lawyer Oliver Tolmein . He then completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and worked as a forest worker.

He trained as an actor at the University of Music and Theater in Hanover . His first engagement took him to the Staatstheater Kassel . Later he was hired to Vienna . Here he played at the Schauspielhaus and the Volkstheater, among others . In the 1992–93 season he came to the Burgtheater. Until 2011 he was part of the permanent ensemble there. Since September 2011 he has been working at the Residenztheater Munich. Since 2016 guest at the Burgtheater Vienna again.

He is married and has three daughters. His wife Bettina Hering was the artistic director of the Niederösterreichisches Landestheater in St. Pölten and has been acting director of the Salzburg Festival from 2017. One daughter, Gretchen, played the role of the Infanta of the Spanish royal family in Andrea Breth's Don Carlos production and in 2014 was in Die Freischwimmerin unter der Directed by Holger Barthel, the eldest daughter Lili plays in German films every now and then (ants go other ways, etc.)

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Markus Hering has appeared in Frank Wedekind's Lulu (directed by Andreas Kriegenburg , 1999) as Enkidu in Gilgamesch by Raoul Schrott (directed by Theu Boermans , 2002) and as conductor in Gert Jonke's Choral Fantasy (directed by Christiane Pohle , co-production Graz 2003 / Burgtheater, world premiere) to see. For this role he was awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize in 2003 in the Best Actor category. Markus Hering played the role of Frank in The Woman Before by Roland Schimmelpfennig (directed by Stephan Müller) in the Academy Theater and he read from the Finnish national epic Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot in the vestibule of the Burgtheater, and he was in Babel of Elfriede Jelinek , directed by Nicolas Stemann to see. In 2008 he was awarded a Nestroy for Best Actor for the second time . In Stefan Bachmann's production of "Burns" he played the notary Hermile Lebel, "The Free Fall" by Gert Jonke and the role of the king in "Philotas" were the last important works at the Burgtheater. In Munich he plays in "Weiten Land" directed by Martin Kusej, in "Midsummer Night's Dream", directed by Michael Thalheimer, in the "Ballade from the sad Cafe" the cousin Lymon directed by Walter Meyerjohann, Malvolio in "Was Ihr wollt "directed by Amelie Niermeier and in" Trilogie der Sommerfrische "by Herbert Fritsch. He can currently be seen in "Drei Schwestern" directed by Tina Lanik, in "Nora oder ein Puppenheim" directed by Mateja Koleznik and in Martin Kusej's production of Labiche's comedy IchIchIch. At the Burgtheater Vienna, Markus Hering played in "The Reunification of the Two Koreas" directed by Peter Wittenberg. He played the title role in " Jedermann (dies) " by Ferdinand Schmalz and has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Vienna Burgtheater since 2018.

Audio books

  • Kalewala by Elias Lönnrot
  • Sally's secret from Arno Geiger
  • From my life by Franz Michael Felder
  • To hear Jonke - Markus Hering reads Gert Jonke

Hering is also active as a film and television actor. He played in the series Tatort , Kommissar Rex and in the films A Song of Love and Death - Gloomy Sunday , Charms Incident, Wiener Blut, Der Stellvertreter and Whiskey with Vodka . In the comedy Life is Too Long (2010) by Dani Levy , he played the leading role of Alfi Seliger . Since 2001 he has been in the ARD series Um Himmels Willen der Herr Stolpe. Hering can be seen in Frauke Finsterwalder's "Finsterworld" and in Christian Frosch's film , No turning back from now on . In the remake of Heidi, Markus Hering plays Clara's family doctor. To be seen in " Looping " by Leonie Krippendorff , a highly acclaimed debut film with Jella Haase , Marie-Lou Sellem and Lana Cooper in the leading roles. In 2017 Rena Dumont shot her short film "Hans im Pech" with him in the lead role. The film has great success at several film festivals.

Filmography

Radio plays

Awards

Nestroy Award for best Austrian actor in 2003 and 2008, actor of the year on ORF 2014

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Commons : Markus Hering  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
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SURNAME Hering, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, Burgtheater member
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins