Miguel Herz-Kestranek

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Actor Miguel Herz-Kestranek
Miguel Herz-Kestranek (Vienna 2008)

Miguel Herz-Kestranek (born April 3, 1948 in St. Gallen ) is an Austrian actor and author .

Life

Herz-Kestranek is the son of a family of industrialists and artists from the former upper Jewish bourgeoisie in Vienna. Grandfather Eugen Herz and great uncle Wilhelm Kestranek occupied leading positions in the Austrian economy. In the family there were writers, actors, painters, philosophers ( Hans Kestranek ), acting and speaking teachers (Zdenko Kestranek), opera singers, as well as the imperial and royal general Paul Kestranek or the bishop and Hungarian historian Vilmos Fraknói . On his mother's side, Miguel Herz-Kestranek comes from a Jewish merchant family from Cologne named Rothschild . Herz-Kestranek owes his first name "Miguel" to the emigration of his Jewish parents, who met each other in exile in Montevideo in 1945 . His double name came about through the adoption of his father by his uncle. In the early years of the Nazi terror, the grandmother's Kestranek was added to the paternal “heart” in order to “neutralize” the Jewish heart with a supposedly Czech “Kestranek”. The family was not spared emigration and murder in the concentration camp.

Miguel Herz-Kestranek was born in St. Gallen in Switzerland and attended elementary school in Sankt Gilgen am Wolfgangsee, in Bonn and in Salzburg . In the fourth grade of the humanistic grammar school, the "notorious diarrhea and thrown out" (own definition) had to move to Upper Austria's Ried im Innkreis , where he graduated in 1968 with the Matura . After a year as a guest auditor at the drama department of the Salzburg Mozarteum , Herz-Kestranek attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna , which he graduated with a diploma.

Born in a Jewish family and raised as a Christian, Miguel Herz-Kestranek describes himself as a “Jewish Buddhist”.

Miguel Herz-Kestranek has been married to Miriam for the first time since September 2016 and has a daughter Theresa from a previous relationship with the Austrian actress Dorothea Parton , who was an alternative dog trainer and runs a dog boarding house called Hundeglück in Lower Austria.

Having grown up by the lake, Miguel Herz-Kestranek is a passionate sailor and founded the former Austrian O-dinghy association in the 1980s. In addition to many regattas, he also participated in the European O-Dinghy Championships in 2005 on Lake Wolfgang. As early as 1984 he donated a prize named after him.

Miguel Herz-Kestranek lives in seclusion, alternating between Vienna and Lake Wolfgang.

Career

In 1971, Herz-Kestranek began his stage work with a guest role at the Vienna Volkstheater and completed his student year at the Vienna Burgtheater under the direction of Gerhard Klingenberg . Then he moved to the Graz Schauspielhaus (Kautek Directorate). After a year and a half he went back to Vienna - without commitment. He got a leading role in the Wiener Konzerthaus cellar theater, which at that time belonged to the Wiener Theater in der Josefstadt . Karlheinz Hackl , Rudolf Jusits , Ludwig Hirsch and Hans Holt played with him . He was then permanently engaged at the Theater in der Josefstadt (Directorate Haeussermann / Stoss ) and remained there for six seasons until 1979, when his contract was no longer extended.

The actor got an engagement at the Salzburg Festival in Arthur Schnitzler's Das weite Land , directed by Maximilian Schell . He was a guest at the Salzburg Festival six times in total: Among other things, in Otto Schenk's production of Was Ihr wollt or in Danton's death with Götz George under Rudolf Noelte .

In addition to his work at the theater, Herz-Kestranek quickly became a sought-after speaker on Austrian radio for radio plays and features and is often booked for TV documentaries because of his distinctive, sonorous voice. As a dubbing actor he lent his voice to well-known colleagues such as Oskar Werner in the second dubbed version (1993) in an episode of the crime series Columbo "Playback", or Mathieu Carrière in the biopic " Egon Schiele - Exzesse ". Occasionally, Herz-Kestranek also took on a few advertising jobs and, for example, spoke the first drawn TV spots for the Austrian energy drink Red Bull at the end of the 1980s.

Since 1980, Herz-Kestranek has concentrated on his career as a film and TV actor and has worked in Germany and in international productions, for example in Italy and England, but also for American TV and cinema films.

Herz-Kestranek had his breakthrough on Austrian television as “Magister Liguster” in the ORF TV series “ Familie Merian ”. His assignments as Tatort Commissioner Ullmann were evaluated in 1986 with the election of the most popular Austrian Tatort Commissioner by an Austrian daily newspaper. Kestranek has played in more than 180 TV and cinema productions, some of them international.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Kestranek played Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol at the Theater in der Josefstadt and Selim Bassa in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail . He appeared at the Reichenau Festival eight times as Thomas Stockmann in Henrik Ibsen’s Ein Volksfeind , Trigorin in Chekhov’s Die Möwe , the Count in Arthur Schnitzler’s Reigen and in Nestroys Unverhofft .

Solo programs included laughing cakes with notes - chansons, couplets, texts or the Vienna Advent and Salzkammergut Advent . In 2000 Herz-Kestranek played Professor Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady in the theater of Baden. In 2013 he played the milkman Tevje in Anatevka at the Innsbruck State Theater . In the 2014/15 season he played Don Quixote in the musical Der Mann von La Mancha, also at the Innsbruck State Theater.

Herz-Kestranek has performed as an entertainer , chansonnier and reciter for the past 30 years, mainly with Austrian literature. There were also own cabaret programs and performances in Austria, Germany, the USA and Israel and the compilation of recitation evenings ( Goethe, Schiller, Weinheber , Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart Hall 2005). In the meantime, his own texts are predominantly the focus of his solo evenings. Herz-Kestranek is also a moderator and discussion leader.

Kestranek also appeared as a producer and organizer, from about 2000 to 2004 the Vienna Advent in the Vienna Museum Quarter and between 1999 and 2006 the Salzkammergut Advent in Bad Ischl. In the Salzkammergut, he designed an Alpine Advent singing with folk music from the region and Austrian winter and Christmas literature, largely from his own pen, while the concept in Vienna was a metropolitan-Viennese, literary-musical Advent concert with musicians from Viennese orchestras, Christmas Schrammel music and choirs. Under the motto "Old Neighbors - New Brothers", Kestranek combined the idea of ​​European unification with musical crossover guests. Both productions were invited to guest performances at the Wiener Konzerthaus or the Brucknerhaus in Linz.

author

As a 15-year-old student he submitted some of his poems to a literary competition and won a prize, a lecture of his poetry on Austrian radio. Also at the grammar school in Ried im Innkreis, he founded the school's first school newspaper, named Finger, and published it until he graduated from high school. Since then, Herz-Kestranek has been the author of a total of 13 books, which have also been read several times on CD. There are also contributions in anthologies as well as articles and comments in the German-speaking press landscape.

Another focus of work is the history of exile, based on one's own family fate. In this context, on the occasion of a reading tour in Israel in 1988, he designed and shot his literary TV feature book forget the word, forget the country about Austrian exiles in Israel, which was broadcast several times on TV and shown on a reading tour in the USA. His active commitment to European unification is reflected in numerous relevant articles, speeches and comments. Miguel Herz-Kestranek found a large audience with his shaking rhymes in two books, some of which have appeared in up to six editions, as well as with a German-language shaking rhymes website.

Honorary positions and memberships

  • 1993 founder and head of the Austrian Film Actors Association (VÖFS), since 2003 honorary president
  • 1993 to 1995 also member of the board of the umbrella association of Austrian filmmakers
  • 2000 to 2011 Vice President of the Austrian PEN Club
  • since 2000 member of the board of trustees of DÖW, the documentation archive of Austrian resistance
  • since 2000 founder and president of the Society for the Promotion of Austrian Advent Culture.
  • since 2004 member of the advisory board of the Austrian Society for European Politics (ÖGfE)
  • Since 2008 Vice President of the Austrian Society for Exile Research (ÖGE)
  • 2012 founding member of the Citizens' Forum Europe 2020

Awards

Publications

  • Oh, it doesn't matter to me! Verlag NÖ Pressehaus, 1987
  • Rhymed bulk shaker. With verbal donations from witty fellow shakers. Brandstätter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85447-606-X
  • So I only have myself Stefan Herz-Kestranek - Stations of an upper-class emigrant 1938 to 1945. (together with Marie-Theres Arnbom ), Böhlau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3205987683
  • I am provided with éjzes: what has been experienced, conceived and learned. (2nd edition) Ibera, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3900436703
  • Shaken to me. The latest and very latest shaking rhymes from Austrian vernacular from Apetlon to Zürs. Brandstätter, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85447-838-0
  • Georg Terramare: A child was born to us. Viennese Christmas legends. Miguel Herz-Kestranek (editor), Ibera, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3900436711
  • wos wea wo waun wia en wean: Einbligge in de weana sö. Ibera, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85052-144-3
  • How Auer Michl went to get a Christmas tree. Ibera, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85052-143-5
  • Winter & Christmas from old Vienna. Ibera, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-85052-203-8
  • Request to speak - polemics, punch lines, poetry. Ibera, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85052-240-3
  • Anny Robert: It's wonderful in Tel Aviv - from a Viennese perspective '. Memories. Daniela Ellmauer, Miguel Herz-Kestranek and Albert Lichtblau (editors), Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77301-6
  • What language do you dream in? Austrian poetry from exile and resistance. Anthology, Miguel Herz-Kestranek, Konstantin Kaiser, Daniela Striegl (editor), Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-901602-25-9
  • Pollak's wife or: How my father told Jewish jokes. Ibera Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85052-300-4

Aphorisms and quotations

  • I am not an artist - I am a master!
  • Everyone lives as stupid as they can.
  • Actors, especially Viennese, are so envious that someone with good digestion will even envy his colleague that he is constipated.
  • Every actor can be replaced in 10 seconds - only Hollywood stars in 20.
  • Anyone who does not understand that television is a business, like detergents or trouser buttons, is either a pure fool or has not understood the medium.
  • I am one hundred percent in solidarity with producers and broadcasters - I work for exactly the same reasons as you!
  • As a television actor, I often lead a double life: during the day I shoot for television, in the evening I am intelligent.
  • With each passing day of my life, the number of those who can lick my ass increases.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl/oebl_K/Kestranek_Paul_1856_1929.xml
  2. ^ Roman Freihsl: Advent - also for Jews and Buddhists. Der Standard , December 6, 2001, accessed July 30, 2014 . /
  3. ↑ https://www.herz-kestranek.com/presse/vita-stichworte/
  4. ↑ Gertrud Aringer, ORF press office: “Welcome Austria” on January 3rd on ORF 2: Star guest: Grischka Voss. OTS, December 29, 2000, accessed December 20, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Happy Dog - Theresa Parton
  6. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.o-jolle.at
  7. ↑ http://www.hoerspiel3.de/sprecher/sprecherdb.php?sprecher=Miguel%20Herz-Kestranek
  8. ↑ The Vienna Woods. Myth and habitat. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; accessed on December 29, 2017 .
  9. ↑ http://sprecherverband.at/voice-sprecherinnen.html?inpName=&inpGender=both&inpSsprachNative=&inpStimmalter=&sid=99
  10. ↑ http://www.landestheater.at/info/ueber-uns/ensemble/miguel-herz-kestranek
  11. ↑ Herz-Kestranek: Memories of an outsider appeared in the commemorative publication of the 125th anniversary of the high school in Ried im Innkreis , Ried / Innkreis 1997
  12. ↑ http: //www.vöfs.at
  13. ↑ http://www.filmschaffende.at
  14. ↑ http://penclub.at
  15. ↑ http://www.doew.at/wir-ueber-uns
  16. ↑ http://www.oegfe.at
  17. ↑ http://www.exilforschung.ac.at
  18. ↑ http://www.europa2020.at
  19. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kundendienst.orf.at
  20. ↑ Thank you for critically examining public life. Lower Austria Press Service, May 30, 2014, accessed on July 30, 2014 .
  21. ↑ http://www.herz-kestranek.com/presse/vita/
personal data
SURNAME Herz-Kestranek, Miguel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen