Nicholas Ofczarek

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Nicholas Ofczarek (2013)

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

As everyone at the Salzburg Festival

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

Theater (selection)

Burgtheater Vienna (partly over several seasons)

City Theater Klagenfurt

Youth Theater - Renaissance Theater

Theater in the Künstlerhaus

Theater of youth - theater in the center

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

Residenztheater Munich

Festival (selection)

Maria Enzersdorfer Festival

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

music

Nicholas Ofczarek, opening of the Wiener Festwochen 2013
Nicholas Ofczarek, opening of the Wiener Festwochen 2013
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Wunderwelt ( Klaus Prünster feat. Anna Unterberger , Simon Schwarz and Nicholas Ofczarek)
  AT 57 09/23/2011 (1 week)

Awards

Occupations

Web links

Commons : Nicholas Ofczarek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maxreinhardtseminar.at
  2. ^ Wiener Zeitung : Life Ball: Ben Becker and Nicholas Ofczarek moderate the opening , April 25, 2012.
  3. ^ Wiener Tafel, press release : Wiener Tafel Soup for EVERYONE , November 5, 2010.
  4. ↑ 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 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ooe-bezirksblicke.at
  5. ↑ kurier.at
  6. ↑ derStandard.at - Hartmann: "Every woman makes a run-up jump into the cleavage" . Article dated July 31, 2013, accessed July 31, 2013.
  7. ↑ Chart positions in Austria
  8. ↑ orf.at: Ofczarek and Maertens now chamber actors . Article dated March 15, 2017, accessed March 15, 2017.
  9. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diagonale.at
personal data
SURNAME Ofczarek, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and ensemble member of the Vienna Burgtheater
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna