Michael Schottenberg

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Michael Schottenberg (2019)

Michael "Schotti" Schottenberg (born July 10, 1952 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actor , director , theater director and author .

biography

Schottenberg received his training as an actor from 1971 to 1974 at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg . From then on he worked in numerous roles at various theaters in Vienna and Berlin . From 1978 he also worked as a director .

In addition, Schottenberg worked both as an actor and as a director in various cinema and television films.

In 1984 he founded his own theater, Theater im Kopf , with which he tried to create productions that were very close to the audience. In a specially built theater tent in front of the Votive Church in Vienna , he reached more than 20,000 spectators each with performances of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1987) and Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1988).

In autumn 2005 he took over the artistic direction of the Vienna Volkstheater . In June 2015 he declared that he wanted to retire from the industry not only as a director from the Vienna Volkstheater, but also as an actor, theater and film director. In 2016 he staged the Nestroy posse Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt at the Theater in der Josefstadt .

Since then, Schottenberg has worked as a travel writer for Amalthea Verlag . He undertakes numerous readings and lectures. In February 2019, Schottenberg took part in the celebrity millionaire show for the campaign Licht ins Dunkel .

In 2019 he took part - together with Cornelia Kreuter - in the ORF dance show Dancing Stars . The couple made it to the finals, where they finished second. In 2020 he was one of the last guests at Wir sind Kaiser .

Schottenberg was married to Maria Bill until 2011 and the couple have a son.

Theater (selection)

presentation

  • Karl in Maria Magdalena von Hebbel ( Theater in der Josefstadt , Vienna)
  • 1977: Don Juan in Don Gil from the green pants by de Molina / Boeser ( Freie Volksbühne Berlin )
  • Stan Laurel in Stan and Ollie in Vienna by Widmer ( Schauspielhaus Wien )
  • Bleichenwang in What You Want by Shakespeare (Schauspielhaus Wien)
  • Merkl-Franz in Kasimir and Karoline von Horváth (Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna)
  • Kurt Fellner in India by Hader and Dorfer ( Schlossparktheater Berlin)
  • 2005: Kurt Fellner in India new production of Hader and Dorfer (Volkstheater Vienna)
  • 2005: Kiefer Löhner-Pfiffspitz (the editor) in freedom in Krähwinkel by Johann Nestroy (Volkstheater Vienna)
  • 2006: Kiefer Löhner-Pfiffspitz (the editor) in freedom in Krähwinkel by Johann Nestroy (Stadttheater Klagenfurt)

Director

Direction at the Vienna Volkstheater from 2005:

Filmography (selection)

presentation

There are also guest roles in television series such as SOKO Kitzbühel , Kommissar Rex and Trautmann .

Director

  • 1986: The diary of Dr. Döblinger
  • 1989: Caracas (screenplay with Michael Horowitz and Michael Juncker)
  • 1990: Common Death 1 & 2
  • 1992: the secret
  • 1992: Averill's arrival
  • 1995: shops

Awards

  • 1997: Karl Skraup Prize for best directorial performance in the 1996/97 season
  • 2002: "Nestroy" award for best director
  • 2002: Karl Skraup Prize for best directing performance in the 2001/02 season
  • 2003: "Nestroy" special price
  • 2009: Karl Skraup Prize for best directorial performance in the 2008/09 season
  • 2015: Dorothea Neff Prize for best directing performance in the 2014/15 season
  • 2017: Ferdinand-Raimund-Ring (Pottenstein)

Publications

  • From the stage to the world - On the way in Vietnam , Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-99050-091-0 .
  • Of new worlds and adventures - On the way in Burma , Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-99050-089-7 .
  • Of dreams and ships - on the move on the cargo ship MS Karina , Amalthea Signum, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-99050-162-7 .
  • Schotti's most beautiful animal stories , with illustrations by Elham Anna Karimi, Echomedia, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-903113-73-2 .

Web links

Commons : Michael Schottenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at - Schottenberg withdraws from the branch . Article dated June 13, 2015, accessed June 14, 2015.
  2. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Schottenberg returns with Nestroy as director . Article dated November 26, 2016, accessed November 26, 2016.
  3. ↑ ORF "Celebrity Millionaire Show": 140,000 euros for "Licht ins Dunkel" on OTS on February 11, 2019, accessed on February 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ orf.at: Raimund-Ring awarded to Michael Schottenberg . Article dated September 24, 2017, accessed September 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Schottenberg, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schotti (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna