Max Simonischek

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Max Simonischek (2014)

Maximilian Simonischek (born October 19, 1982 in West Berlin ) is a Swiss actor with Austrian roots.

Life

Max Simonischek was born in 1982 in West Berlin as the son of actors Peter Simonischek and Charlotte Schwab . He completed his training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg . This was followed by a first engagement at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna under the direction of Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger . In 2007 he moved to the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin as a permanent member of the ensemble . There he played numerous leading roles under the direction of Armin Petras and Tilmann Köhler - for example as Hamlet and Mephisto. In 2009 he gave up his engagement in favor of a freelance work in order to then commit himself as a permanent member of the ensemble at the Münchner Kammerspiele from 2012 to September 2014 and then give preference to freelance engagements in film and theater again.

Simonischek made guest appearances in Stuttgart and Salzburg in 2014/2015, for example, where he played the leading role in Don Juan Comes from the War by Ödön von Horváth at the Salzburg Festival . In September 2015, the one-man play Der Bau, based on the story by Franz Kafka, premiered at the Theater am Neumarkt Zurich , in which Simonischek was both the main actor and co-director; it was enthusiastically received by the critics and has since been shown in various European theaters, including the Burgtheater. In 2017 Simonischek appeared again at the Salzburg Festival. He played Stanley in The Birthday Party , a play by Harold Pinter , directed by Andrea Breth . In 2019 he took on the role of Papageno in Mozart's Magic Flute in the opera in the stone quarry in St. Margarethen in Burgenland , although he is not a trained singer. He received a lot of criticism from the press and the public.

Max Simonischek has established himself in the German-speaking theater as an actor of sophisticated characters and has also played in several German and Swiss cinema and TV films in recent years as a leading actor. Among other things, he was in the movies file Grüninger (on the side of Stefan Kurt , directed by Alain Gsponer ) and on the slope (as a lover of Martina Gedeck and rival of Henry Hübchen to see), the latter directed by Markus Imboden , with which he had already shot The Contracting Boy .

He played a leading role in the two-parter Hindenburg , an important supporting role in Gotthard , and he was also cast for the male lead in the award-winning Swiss feature film The Divine Order about the introduction of women's suffrage. Two episodes of the crime thriller about Commissioner Lukas Laim have also been broadcast in recent years: The Dead Without Alibi was followed by Laim and the Signs of Death , and the third episode, Laim and the Last Guilty, was filmed in summer 2018 . He played other roles in We make through until tomorrow morning by Lars Becker (for ZDF, with Heike Makatsch among others ) and in Desaster by Justus von Dohnányi (with Stefan Kurt and Angela Winkler ). In January 2019, Max Simonischek achieved great attention and recognition across the country when the biographical feature film Zwingli was launched, in which he played the lead role as the reformer Ulrich Zwingli and appeared for the first time with his mother Charlotte Schwab, who portrayed his mother-in-law in the film. The film was a hit with the public; Within eight weeks, over 200,000 viewers streamed into the cinemas to see the film to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

Filmography (selection)

With Traute Hoess and Sabine Haupt in Don Juan Comes from the War , Salzburg Festival 2014
  • 2020: Laim - and the last guilty party - Director: Michael Schneider

Awards

Web links

Commons : Max Simonischek  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/buehne/2018071-Pienkos-und-Obonya-inszenieren-die-Zauberfloete.html
  2. ↑ https://www.kulturundwein.com/oper-im-steinbruch-margarethen.htm?nocache=1563101120
  3. ↑ Janine Radlingmayr, Paolo Dutto: "How boring would be a flawless world!" In: VIA the magazine of SBB CFF FFS . Intel AG, February 2019, ISSN  1422-6499 , p. 22-25 .
  4. ↑ derStandard.at: Nestroy Awards: Meyerhoff and Jonasson best actors . Article dated November 13, 2017, accessed November 13, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Simonischek, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simonischek, Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH West Berlin