Michael Totz

Michael Totz around 1964

Michael Totz (born May 19, 1947 in Vienna ; † July 8, 1990 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian actor.

The son of USIA director and KPÖ intellectual Walter Totz, who was born in Vienna-Neubau, and his wife Mathilde completed elementary school and (without Matura diploma) from Bundesrealgymnasium VII, Kandlgasse , in his home district, switched to the Reinhardt seminar and completed his training from the Krauss drama school .

For years, Totz was one of the pillars of the ensemble of the Linz State Theater , in which he developed into a character actor at an early age and achieved his probably greatest success around 1985 as Bockerer (premiere October 19, 1985). The subsequent engagement at the State Theater in Nuremberg , where Totz played the title role in Hansjörg Utzerath's 1986 production of Bert Brechts Baal (premiere October 4, 1986), was similarly successful . In 1988 Theater heute judged that Totz "brilliantly embodied" Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's " Nathan the Wise " as a jazzy piano-playing "difficult guy" (a TV version of the Bavarian television is said to exist of the latter performance).

The convinced Viennese, however, strove to return to his hometown and was engaged in 1989 at the Vienna Volkstheater under the direction of Emmy Werner . Here he worked, among other things, in Johann Nestroy's " Das Haus der Temperamente " (Premiere December 17, 1989). In the summer of 1990, Totz was killed in a rafting scene while filming a television film. His death hit the headlines.

Individual evidence

↑ See Google books [1]
^ Kronen-Zeitung , July 9, 1990, p. 1: "Actor drowned in front of the camera"

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personal data
SURNAME	Totz, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 19, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	July 8, 1990
Place of death	Salzburg

[1] See Google books [1]

[2] Kronen-Zeitung , July 9, 1990, p. 1: "Actor drowned in front of the camera"