Nicholas Ofczarek
Nicholas Ofczarek (born May 30, 1971 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actor and member of the Vienna Burgtheater ensemble . From 2010 to 2012 he was the Jedermann of the Salzburg Festival .
Life
His parents Roberta and Klaus Ofczarek were opera singers and he lived with them for several years in Graz and Switzerland . When his parents pointed out that he showed more talent for acting than singing, he decided to pursue an acting career.
After graduating from high school and acting as an actor at the Vienna Conservatory , he played in the independent Viennese theater scene ( Theater Drachengasse , Theater der Jugend ) from 1991 to 1994 , until Claus Peymann brought him to the Burgtheater in 1994 for a role that he never played . It wasn't until a year and a half and a few smaller roles later that Peymann really noticed him and began to promote him.
In addition to his numerous stage and film engagements, he teaches speech training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and is also active in charities. Together with Ben Becker , he moderated the Life Ball 2012, cooks for the Wiener Tafel charity and was auctioned for a dinner in 2012 at a charity evening for the Viennese social markets.
In 2013 he performed at the annual national holiday concert in Vienna.
Ofczarek is married to the Austrian actress Tamara Metelka (* 1972) and has one daughter.
Stage roles
His first leading role at the Burgtheater he played 1995/96 on the side of Martin Schwab in The Messiah by Patrick Barlow (R: Felix Benesch ). In 1999 he played the role of Pentheus in Die Bakchen von Euripides , in the same year a stranger in Franz Wittenbrink's Pompes Funèbres (1999), 2000 Kilian Blau in Nestroys Der Färber und his twin brother (D: Karlheinz Hackl ), Leonce in Georg Büchner's Leonce and Lena (D: Sven-Eric Bechtolf , 2001), Mortimer in Schiller's Maria Stuart (D: Andrea Breth ), young border hunter in Karl Schönherr's Der Weibsteufel (Director: Martin Kušej ).
One of his star roles is the role of Zawisch in Martin Kušej's production of King Ottokar's Glück und Ende , which was performed at the Salzburg Festival in 2005 and was on the program in the Burgtheater. Ofczarek was nominated for the Nestroy Theater Prize 2005 in the category “Best Actor” alongside Tobias Moretti and Michael Maertens for the role of Johann in To Ebener Erde und First Stock or Die Launen des Glücks von Nestroy and received this prize shared with Michael Maertens.
In 2006 he was also active in the opera genre and was directed by Karin Beier as Bassa Selim (speaking role) in Die Entführung aus dem Serail on the Burgtheater stage. In the summer of 2009 he not only took on the role of Lieutenant Greising in Schnitzler's Spiel im Dawn at the Reichenau Festival , but also made his directorial debut.
From 2010 to 2012 he played the title role in Jedermann by Hugo von Hofmannsthal at the Salzburg Festival and also had guest appearances at the Residenztheater in Munich as Kasimir in Kasimir and Karoline under the direction of Frank Castorf and Der Weibsteufel . In 2013 he celebrated a great personal success as a knee strap in the Salzburg Festival production of Lumpazivagabundus , a coproduction with the Vienna Burgtheater.
Movie and TV
Ofczarek also appears in numerous feature films, television films and television series. In the July 2008 film Falco - Damn, We're Still Alive! he played the role of the Falco discoverer Markus Spiegel . Ofczarek played a leading role in the Swiss film Sennentuntschi (2010). In 2011 he could be seen in Peter Payer's film At the End of the Day and, together with film colleagues Anna Unterberger and Simon Schwarz , he could be heard singing with a reinterpretation of Klaus Pruenster's Wonder World .
In 2012 Ofczarek was seen on ORF in the series Braunschlag as disco owner Richard Pfeisinger and in the satirical program Wir Staatskünstler by and with Florian Scheuba , Robert Palfrader and Thomas Maurer . In the latter, Niko Pelinka's allegedly great influence on the content of public service broadcasting was parodied in the first season . Pelinka (played by Nicholas Ofczarek) shared his suggestions for improvement for the program via video conference every week (instructed by Laura Rudas , the SPÖ director, who was always next to him and portrayed by Claudia Kottal ). In the second season they parodied various personalities in the series of love stories and everyday things, inspired by Elizabeth T. Spira's love stories and marriage matters , who were portrayed by them as couples ( Michael Häupl and Maria Vassilakou , Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly and Maria Rauch- Kallat , François Hollande and Angela Merkel , Krampus and Nikolo , Jedermann and Jedermann, as well as Alexander Wrabetz and Richard Grasl ). Ofczarek played numerous different roles with Robert Palfrader in changing disguises in the comedic-satirical broadcast series Bösterreich .
Filmography
- 1994: parking lot
- 1997: In swimming-two-birds
- 1998: Lieselotte
- 1998: the seal
- 1999: North Rim
- 1999: Vino Santo - Long live love, long live wine
- 1999: Investigation on girls
- 2000: The arrest of Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
- 2001–2002: Commissioner Rex (TV series, episodes 7x08, 8x04)
- 2001–2002: Medicopter 117 - Every life counts (TV series, episodes 4x04, 5x02)
- 2001, 2005: SOKO Kitzbühel (TV series, episodes 1x06, 4x01)
- 2001: Uprising
- 2001: Sophie - Sissi's little sister
- 2001: Flowers for Polt
- 2002: The bestseller - murder in Italian
- 2002: MA 2412 (TV series, episode total loss )
- 2002: Towards the future through the night
- 2002: The bull from Tölz: final whistle
- 2002: Julia - An Unusual Woman (TV series, episode Innocent )
- 2003: hen party
- 2003: Especially now
- 2003: Heaven, Polt and Hell
- 2003: ravioli
- 2004: family on order
- 2004: my father, my wife and my lover
- 2005: 11er Haus (TV series, 8 episodes)
- 2005: Brave in the new times (TV series, episode Im Reich der Phylloxera )
- 2006: King Ottokar's luck and end
- 2006: Der Winzerkönig - TV, 2 episodes
- 2006: The Duo (TV series, episode time out )
- 2006: 8 × 45 (TV series, episode Heaven )
- 2006: tough guys
- 2007: fearful rabbits
- 2007: The jury
- 2007: fear of hell
- 2008: Tatort - The oide dork
- 2008: My strange daughter
- 2008: patchwork
- 2008: Falco - Damn it, we're still alive!
- 2008: Daniel Käfer - The Shadow Clock
- 2009: Krupp - a German family
- 2009: my fight
- 2010: Sennentuntschi
- 2010: The last Weynfeldt
- 2010: Tatort - Operation Job
- 2011: Summer of the jugglers
- 2011: At the end of the day
- 2011: The Blood Countess
- 2011–2012: We state artists - various TV episodes
- 2012: Braunschlag (TV series, 8 episodes)
- 2012: Jesus loves me
- 2013: Among enemies
- 2014: Boͤsterreich (sketch series, 10 episodes)
- 2014: We're going through until tomorrow morning
- 2015: Too early to die
- 2015: The Team (TV series, 7 episodes)
- 2015: Old Money (TV series, 8 episodes)
- 2015: My strange wife
- 2016: Tatort - The story of the bad Friederich
- 2016: my parents' wedding
- 2016: Country thriller - Höhenstraße
- 2017: The divine order
- 2018: rich or dead
- 2018: magician
- 2018: The Pass (TV series)
- 2020: Tatort: The team
- 2020: Nightlife
Theater (selection)
Burgtheater Vienna (partly over several seasons)
- 1994/1995: Titus Andronicus , by William Shakespeare (Martius) - Director: Wolfgang Engel
- 1994/1995: The Jungle Book , by Rudyard Kipling (Shir Khan) - Director: Hansjörg Betschart
- 1994/1995: Romeo and Juliet , by William Shakespeare (Peter, servant of the wet nurse) - Director: Karlheinz Hackl
- 1995/1996: The Messiah , by Patrick Barlow (Bernhard) - Director: Felix Benesch
- 1995/1996: Rest area or you all do it , by Elfriede Jelinek (waiter) - Director: Claus Peymann
- 1995/1996: Tango , by Slawomir Mrożek (Artur) - directed by Konstanze Lauterbach
- 1995/1996: Peer Gynt , by Henrik Ibsen (Mads Moen / Mann in Grau) - Director: Claus Peymann
- 1995/1996: The farmer as a millionaire , by Ferdinand Raimund (Zenobius / Lorenz / Tophan) - directed by Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann
- 1995/1996: The Robbers , by Friedrich Schiller (Razmann) - Director: Matthias Hartmann
- 1996/1997: The Caucasian Chalk Circle , by Bertolt Brecht (Panzerreiter / wedding guest) - Director: Ruth Berghaus
- 1996/1997: Preparations for Immortality , by Peter Handke (Raumverdränger Drei) - Director: Claus Peymann
- 1996/1997: The Flea in the Ear , by Georges Feydeau (Camille Chandebise) - Director: Karlheinz Hackl
- 1996/1997: At home my name was Jeannette, in France Jeanne, I don't know anything about another name , from Bertolt Brecht - Head: Konrad Kuhn
- 1997/1998: Fat Men in Rock , by Nicky Silver (Bishop Hogan) - Director: Karin Henkel
- 1997/1998: Edward II. , By Christopher Marlowe (Mortimer junior) - Director: Claus Peymann
- 1997/1998: Professor Bernhardi , by Arthur Schnitzler (Hochroitzpointner) - Director: Achim Benning
- 1997/1998: Freedom in Krähwinkel , by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (Eberhard Ultra / Anton / Arthur) - Director: Frank Castorf
- 1999/2000: Bakchen , by Euripides (Pentheus) - directed by Silviu Purcarete
- 1999/2000: Pompes Funèbres , by Franz Wittenbrink (A Stranger) - Director: Franz Wittenbrink
- 1999/2000: The dyer and his twin brother , by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (Kilian Blau and Hermann Blau, twins) - Director: Karlheinz Hackl
- 2000/2001: The Youngest Day , by Ödön von Horváth (Ferdinand) - directed by Andrea Breth
- 2000/2001: Leonce and Lena , by Georg Büchner (Prince Leonce) - Director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf
- 2001/2002: Maria Stuart , by Friedrich Schiller (Mortimer) - Director: Andrea Breth
- 2001/2002: The Maiden of Orleans , by Friedrich Schiller (Charles the Seventh) - Director: Karin Beier
- 2002/2003: Emilia Galotti , by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Angelo) - director: Andrea Breth
- 2002/2003: Oblomow , by Iwan Alexandrowitsch Gontscharow (Stolz) - Director: Stephan Müller
- 2002/2003: Reigen , by Friedrich Schiller (Der Graf) - Director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf
- 2003/2004: What you want , by William Shakespeare (Sir Toby Rülp) - Director: Roland Koch
- 2003/2004: The Pillow Man , by Martin McDonagh (Ariel) - Director: Anselm Weber
- 2003/2004: Don Carlos , by Friedrich Schiller (Duke of Alba) - Director: Andrea Breth
- 2004/2005: God save America , by Biljana Srbljanović (Daniel) - director: Karin Beier
- 2004/2005: On the ground floor and first floor , by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (Johann) - Director: Anselm Weber
- 2004/2005: The Cherry Orchard , by Anton Pawlowitsch Chekhov (Jaša) - Director: Andrea Breth
- 2005/2006: King Ottokar's luck and end , by Franz Grillparzer (Zawisch von Rosenberg) - director: Martin Kušej
- 2005/2006: The Abduction from the Seraglio , by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Bassa Selim) - Director: Karin Beier
- 2006/2007: Hell fear , by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (Wendelin) - directed by Martin Kušej
- 2006/2007: Much Ado About Nothing , by William Shakespeare (Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon) - directed by Jan Bosse
- 2006/2007: Measure for Measure , by William Shakespeare (Angelo / Volk) - Director: Karin Beier
- 2007/2008: Motortown , by Simon Stephens (Danny) - directed by Andrea Breth
- 2007/2008: The Wars of the Roses , by William Shakespeare (Richard III) - Director: Stephan Kimmig
- 2008/2009: Der Weibsteufel , by Karl Schönherr (A young border hunter) - Director: Martin Kušej
- 2008/2009: Life a Dream , by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Sigismund) - Director: Karin Beier
- 2009/2010: Stories from the Vienna Woods , by Ödön von Horváth (Alfred) - Director: Stefan Bachmann
- 2009/2010: Quai West , by Bernard-Marie Koltès (Fak) - directed by Andrea Breth
- 2009/2010: Lorenzaccio , by Alfred de Musset (Duke Alessandro de Medici / exile / guest / gravedigger) - directed by Stefan Bachmann
- 2010/2011: Professor Bernhardi , by Arthur Schnitzler (Professor Dr. Flint, Minister of Education) - Director: Dieter Giesing
- 2010/2011: What you want , by William Shakespeare (Sir Toby Rülp) - Director: Matthias Hartmann
- 2011/2012: Fool of Love - Shakespeare sonnets with music by Karsten Riedel and Franui - Director: Michael Schachermaier
- 2011/2012: Endstation Sehnsucht , by Tennessee Williams (Stanley Kowalski) - Director: Dieter Giesing
- 2012/2013: Onkel Vanja , by Anton Pawlowitsch Chekhov (Iwán Petrówitsch Wojnízkij, called "Onkel Vanja") - Director: Matthias Hartmann
- 2012/2013: Liliom , by Franz Molnár (Liliom) - Director: Barbara Frey
- 2013/2014: The evil spirit Lumpazivagabundus , by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (Knieriem) - director: Matthias Hartmann
- 2014/2015: The Rue de Lourcine affair , by Eugène Labiche (Lenglumé) - directed by Barbara Frey
- 2015/2016: This Story of You , by John Hopkins (Johnson) - directed by Andrea Breth
- 2016/2017: Final , by Samuel Beckett (Hamm)
- 2016/2017: Outlawed , by Ayad Akhtar (Issac) - directed by Tina Lanik
City Theater Klagenfurt
- 1990: The spendthrift by Ferdinand Raimund (Herr von Helm) - Director: Fritz Zecha
Youth Theater - Renaissance Theater
- 1991: Pippi Longstocking , by Astrid Lindgren (Sailor) - Director: Klaus Rott
- 1992: Dr. Faust and the fateful pact with the devil , after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Carlo Formigoni (Valentin / Gott) - director: Carlo Formigoni
Theater in the Künstlerhaus
- 1992: Rococo , by Cecilie Løveid (White Man 2) - Director: Beverly Blankenship
Theater of youth - theater in the center
- 1993: Gretchen Sackmeier , based on Christine Nöstlinger by Eberhard Petschinka (Hänschen) - director: Alexander Strobele
Drachengasse theater
- 1993: Love, Lust and Lies or The False Courtesans , by Aphra Behn (Frank Gaillard / Morosini) - Director: Beverly Blankenship
- 1994: The Knight of the Flaming Pestle , by Francis Beaumont (Georg Bürger) - Director: Beverly Blankenship
Volksoper
- 2004: Im weissen Rössl by Ralph Benatzky (Sigismund Sülzheimer jr.) - Director: Robert Herzl
Residenztheater Munich
- 2011/2012: Der Weibsteufel , by Karl Schönherr (A young border hunter) - Director: Martin Kušej
- 2011/2012: Kasimir and Karoline , by Ödön von Horváth (Kasimir) Director: Frank Castorf
Festival (selection)
Maria Enzersdorfer Festival
- 1991: He wants to have a joke , by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (August Sonders) - Director: Elfriede Ott
Comedy games Porcia - Spittal an der Drau
- 1992: Ex - A King on Extra Tours , by Antal Szerb (Commander of the Bodyguard / Gervaisis) - Director: Tamás Ferkay
- 1992: La Donna di Garbo or love makes you inventive , by Carlo Goldoni (Lelio) - directed by Tamás Ferkai
- 1992: Much Ado About Nothing , by William Shakespeare (Guardian) - Director: Tamás Ferkai
- 1993: A Midsummer Night's Dream , by William Shakespeare (Lion) - Director: Tamás Ferkai
- 1993: The Florentine Hat , by Eugène Labiche (Fadinard) - Director: Tamás Ferkai
- 1995: Der Verschwender , by Ferdinand Raimund (Wolf) - Director: Tamás Ferkai
- 1995: The Taming of the Shrew , by William Shakespeare (Hortensio / Curtis) - Director: Tamás Ferkai
Reichenau Festival
- 1996: The Lonely Way , by Arthur Schnitzler (Felix) - Director: Beverly Blankenship
- 2002: Affaire Lina Loos , by Arthur Schnitzler, new version by Hans Haider (Alfred Polgar) - director: Jürgen Kaizik
- 2003: Free! , by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (Pitzl) - Director: Michael Gampe
- 2004: The Talisman , by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (Titus Feuerfuchs) - Director: Michael Gampe
- 2007: Comedy of Words , 3 one-act play by Arthur Schnitzler (Dr. Karl Eckold / Gilbert / Felix Staufner) - Director: Michael Gampe
- 2008: Park bench philosophers , cabaret revue based on motifs by Karl Farkas and Fritz Grünbaum
- 2009: Game at Dawn , by Arthur Schnitzler (Leutnant Greising and directorial debut) - Director: Nicholas Ofczarek
Salzburg Festival
- 2005: King Ottokar's luck and end , by Franz Grillparzer (Zawisch von Rosenberg) - director: Martin Kušej
- 2006: Hell fear , by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (Wendelin) - director: Martin Kušej
- 2010–2012: Jedermann , by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Jedermann) - Director: Christian Stückl
- 2013: The evil spirit Lumpazivagabundus , by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (Knieriem) - Director: Matthias Hartmann
- 2016: Final , by Samuel Beckett (Hamm)
music
Nicholas Ofczarek, opening of the Wiener Festwochen 2013 | ||||||||||||
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- 2011: Wunderwelt Klaus Prünster feat. Anna Unterberger , Simon Schwarz and Nicholas Ofczarek (soundtrack for At the end of the day )
Awards
- 1999: Josef Kainz Medal
- 2003: Winner of the Vienna Actors' Ring
- 2005: Nestroy Theater Prize - “Best Actor” award
- 2006: Nestroy Theater Prize - “Best Actor” award
- 2009: 3sat Prize for the acting performance in Der Weibsteufel
- 2012: Johann-Nestroy-Ring of the city of Bad Ischl
- 2012: Gertrud-Eysoldt-Ring , for his portrayal of Casimir in Horváth's Kasimir and Karoline at the Residenztheater Munich
- 2012: Romy film and television award as "Most Popular Actor"
- 2016: Award from the German Academy for Television in the Actor Leading Role category for Tatort: The Story of Bad Friederich
- 2017: Awarded the professional title of chamber actor
- 2018: Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award - Special Jury Award for Magicians
Occupations
- Burgtheater occupations from 2013 to 2014
- Burgtheater casts from 2014
- Cast at the Salzburg Festival 2012 to 2016
Web links
- Nicholas Ofczarek in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Nicholas Ofczarek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Nicholas Ofczarek on the Burgtheater website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lecturers. (No longer available online.) Web presence of the Max Reinhardt Seminar, archived from the original on February 26, 2015 ; Retrieved November 15, 2012 . 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.
- ^ Wiener Zeitung : Life Ball: Ben Becker and Nicholas Ofczarek moderate the opening , April 25, 2012.
- ^ Wiener Tafel, press release : Wiener Tafel Soup for EVERYONE , November 5, 2010.
- ↑ ooe-bezirksblicke.at: Everyone Nicholas Ofczarek sings in thriller, music by “Wunderwelt” star Klaus Pruenster: Cinema release in August ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , August 8, 2011
- ↑ kurier.at
- ↑ derStandard.at - Hartmann: "Every woman makes a run-up jump into the cleavage" . Article dated July 31, 2013, accessed July 31, 2013.
- ↑ Chart positions in Austria
- ↑ orf.at: Ofczarek and Maertens now chamber actors . Article dated March 15, 2017, accessed March 15, 2017.
- ↑ Thomas Pluch Screenplay Awards 2018 ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2018 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. . Retrieved March 16, 2018.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ofczarek, Nicholas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor and ensemble member of the Vienna Burgtheater |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |