Mercedes Echerer
Raina Mercedes Echerer (born May 16, 1963 in Linz ) is an Austrian stage and film actress , director , presenter and spokeswoman for radio and television programs. From 1999 to 2004 she was on the list of Green MEPs in the European Parliament as an independent party .
Life
Mercedes Echerer grew up bilingual (German and Hungarian). She graduated from BORG Linz in 1981 and then trained in acting, dance and singing at the Linz State Theater .
As a theater actress, she had engagements at the Theater an der Wien ( Cats 1984–1985), the Vienna Volkstheater (1985–1989) and the Theater in der Josefstadt (1990–1998). From 1991 to 1996 she presented the cultural program kunst -stücke and the Prix Ars Electronica gala on ORF .
From 1999 to 2004, after the European elections in Austria in 1999 , she was a member of the European Parliament for the Greens , but without being a party member. She has served on various European parliamentary committees , including law and the internal market, culture, youth, education, media and sport, and budget. She was also a pioneer in relation to software patents and copyright issues.
In 2004 she founded the EU XXL film, forum and festival of european film and in 2010 the cultural association Die2 .
In 2015 she received the professional title of Professor . Echerer is married to the author, filmmaker and actor Rupert Henning .
Filmography (selection)
- 1985: Schmutz - Director: Paulus Manker
- 1988: Postseason - Director: Wolfram Paulus
- 1990: Café de l'union - Director: Dominikus Probst
- 1991: Journey to the capital - Director: Wolfram Paulus
- 1993: Halbe Welt - Director: Florian Flicker
- 1996: Der See - Director: Thomas Roth
- 1999: Wanted - Director: Harald Sicherheitsitz
- 2016: Carousel - Director: Gerda Leopold
- 2016: Agony - Director: David Clay Diaz
watch TV
- 1990: popular death
- 1995: My grandpa is the best - Director: Helmuth Lohner
- 2004: A Happy Day - Director: Paul Hennge
- 2006: Four women and a death - Director: Wolfgang Murnberger
- 2006: Nature on the Roof Terrace - Director: Barbara Puskas
- 2007: Der Winzerkönig - Director: Claudia Jüppner
- 2008: Quickly determined - Director: Michi Riebl
- 2008: The perpetrator - directed by Michael Kreihsl
- 2009: Not my daughter - Director: Wolfgang Murnberger
- 2011: The Rosenheim cops - see Verona and die
- 2012: The revenge of the wandering whore
- 2012: Janus
- 2014: The detectives
- 2016: The Midwife's Secret
- 2017: Tatort (Vienna): shock
- 2019: Walking on Sunshine
Director
- 2019: Day of Wrath ( Theater Drachengasse , direction and acting)
Spokeswoman
- 2015: Documentary 150 Years Wiener Ringstrasse ( ORF spokeswoman)
- 2016: Universum History Olympia 1936 - The betrayed dream
Audio books
- Being good is difficult! (2011, audio book version of the book by Marlen Haushofer )
Web links
- Mercedes Echerer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mercedes Echerer on the website of the Austrian Parliament
- Entry on Mercedes Echerer in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
- Homepage Mercedes Echerer
- www.crew-united.com Mercedes Echerer - Actress Spokeswoman
- www.schauspielervideos.de - actress, speaker Mercedes Echerer
- Portrait of Mercedes Echerer by Anneliese Rohrer in the magazine Datum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elisabeth Engelwirth, 6mb: Successful graduates of the BORG Linz - Mercedes Echerer BORG Linz, November 22, 2011
- ↑ EU XXL FILM Association , accessed on June 4, 2018.
- ↑ Mercedes Echerer is professor in the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of October 7, 2015, accessed on November 3, 2015
- ↑ Rupert Henning: "I have a great crush on Eisner and Fellner". Standard, accessed January 21, 2017 .
- ↑ APA : 150 Years of Wiener Ringstrasse: ORF, City of Vienna and WienTourismus presented a documentary trilogy from February 19, 2015, accessed on January 6, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Echerer, Mercedes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Echerer, Raina Mercedes (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actress and politician (independent), MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linz , Austria |