Markus Völlenklee

Markus Völlenklee (born March 8, 1955 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian actor and theater director .

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Völlenklee received his artistic training from 1973 to 1976 at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna . His engagements took him to Düsseldorf , Cologne , Hamburg and Berlin , where he often worked with his partner Katharina Thalbach at the local Schiller Theater .

Important roles were George in Our Little City (1976, Volkstheater Wien ), Gendarme in Lautensack's Hahnenkampf (1980, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus ), Wasja Pepel in Nachtasyl (1981, Schauspiel Köln ), Macky Messer in Die Dreigroschenoper (1983, Schauspiel Köln), Matti in Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti (1985, Freie Volksbühne Berlin ), Eilif in Mother Courage and Her Children (1986, Schauspielhaus Hamburg ), Macbeth in Macbeth (1987, Schillertheater Berlin), Riccault in Minna von Barnhelm (1990, Schillertheater), Galy Gay in Brecht's Mann ist Mann (1990, Thalia Theater Hamburg), Jeannot in Serreaus Hase Hase (1992, Schillertheater) and Jacques in As You Like It (1993, Schillertheater).

From 1995 to 1998 he worked regularly at the Münchner Volkstheater with Ruth Drexel . He played there, among others, Jean in Emperor's Two Ties (1995), Notary Felix Renaudier in Labiches The Piggy Bank (1995) and Hate in The Farmer as Millionaire (1998).

Other theater roles were Christopher Mahony in Der Held aus dem Westen von Synge / Mitterer (1999, Munich Volkstheater ), Benedikt Höllriegl alias Artur Kirsch in Mitterer's In der Löwengrube (2000), Titus Feuerfuchs in Nestroy's Der Talisman (2003, Landestheater Innsbruck ), Faust in Urfaust (2003, Tiroler Volksschauspiele in Telfs ), Hofbauer in Ludwig Thomas Die Witwen (2004, Kleine Komödie am Max II Munich), Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus (2005, Bad Hersfeld Festival , awarded the Great Hersfeld Prize ), Josef Filser and Poet Halelwanter in First Class / Paralyzed Wings by Ludwig Thoma (2005, Kleine Komödie am Max II)

His own directorial work included Thomas Brasch's Frauen Krieg Lustspiel (1990, Innsbrucker Kellertheater), Werner Schwab's Die Presidentinnen (1993, Schillertheater Berlin), Tankred Dorst's Herr Paul (1994, Theater Bremen ), Edward Bonds Gerettet (1995, Münchner Volkstheater), Shakespeare's Zwei Gentlemen from Verona (1996, Münchner Volkstheater), Schimmelpfennig's Die Zwiefachen (1997, Werkraum der Münchner Kammerspiele ), Lorenz Gutmanns Gross Madonna (1997, Tyrolean folk plays in Telfs), Turrinis Josef and Maria (1997, Münchner Volkstheater), Serreaus Hase Hase (1999 , Münchner Volkstheater), 2000 Jarrys König Ubu (2000, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck ), Tankred Dorsts Frß mir nur mein Karlchen not (2001, Münchner Volkstheater), He wants to have a joke (2003, Tiroler Volksschauspiele in Telfs), hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria (2004, Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel ), Magdalena by Franz Xaver Kroetz (2007, Garmischer Theatersommer), As You Like It (2007, Tiroler Volkssc Hauspiele in Telfs) and Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti (2008, Tyrolean Volksschauspiele Telfs).

1998: Peter Steinbach : Why is it so beautiful on the Rhine ... (Graumann) - Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann (radio play - WDR / DLR)

C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon. Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich, 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .

personal data
SURNAME	Völlenklee, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH	March 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	innsbruck