Nicholas Barton

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Nikolaus Barton (born July 13, 1984 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actor .

Life

Nikolaus Barton, born in Vienna, studied economics for one semester in Vienna after graduating from high school until starting his community service . During his community service he attended his first acting and improvisational theater workshops and auditioned unsuccessfully at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. After his community service he began to study theater studies and played in two amateur theater groups at the same time, where he gained his first stage experience. After another audition, he was accepted at the Reinhardt Seminar, where he completed his acting training from autumn 2004 to summer 2008. He received basic acting lessons there a. a. with Klaus-Maria Brandauer and Susanne Granzer ; his role studies took place with Artak Grigorjan . He also attended workshops with István Szabó and Michaela Rosen .

To finance his courses, he worked a. a. as a spokesman in radio advertising, as a clerk at the Austrian Post , as a promoter and as a waiter in a café on Mariahilfer Strasse .

During his training in 2005 he played with the Retz summer theater in Schiller's early work Die Räuber ; he also took part in several Reinhardt seminar productions. After completing his studies, he received an engagement at the Chemnitz Theater , where he was a permanent member of the ensemble from 2008 to 2011. There he played u. a. the painter Conti in Emilia Galotti (season 2008/09), Malcolm in MacBeth (2009; in a stage version by Bruno Cathomas ) and worked in plays by Bertolt Brecht (2011; as butcher / green stuff trader / defender in Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui ) , Henrik Ibsen (2011; as Mads Moen / Troll / Businessman / Jünger / Crazy / Cook / Button founder in Peer Gynt ) and Elfriede Jelinek (in Wolken.Heim ) with.

In the 2011/12 season he appeared at the Bregenz State Theater in the title role of Molière's comedy Tartuffe . In 2013 he appeared in the music theater Tragedy of a Friendship by Moritz Eggert (director: Jan Fabre ) at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp in the role of Richard Wagner . In 2014 he was a guest at the Perchtoldsdorf Summer Games as Count Wetter vom Strahl in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn in a production by Maria Happel . In 2015 he took over the cellar master Stephano in Shakespeare's late work Der Sturm . In the 2014/15 season he had a guest contract at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt , where he a. a. appeared as servant of Sosia in Amphitryon . He also appeared at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt in the 2014/15 season in the two-person piece Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks by Richard Alfieri ; at the side of Heidelinde Weis he played the dance teacher Michael.

Barton starred in numerous film and television productions. He had a continuous supporting role in the ORF crime series Janus (2013) by Andreas Kopriva ; he played the police lieutenant Markus Schneider. In the ORF hit series Vorstadtweiber (2015) he played the role of Marco in the 1st season; he was the son of the bank director Hadrian "Hadi" Melzer ( Bernhard Schir ). He also had episode roles in the ORF / ZDF series SOKO Wien / SOKO Donau (2012; as Johannes Kollmann, the suspected son of the Kollmann family) and SOKO Kitzbühel (2013; as internet activist and “Alpine pirate” Sebastian Auer). In the German-Austrian TV film Die Toten von Salzburg (2016), which premiered in Austria in March 2016 and in Germany in September 2016, he played a supporting role as forensic doctor Dr. To see Simon Guardian.

Nikolaus Barton lives as a freelance actor in Vienna and Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nikolaus Barton at schauspielervideos.de
  2. ↑ a b c Nikolaus Barton profile at e-TALENTA . Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Nikolaus Barton . Profile. Max Reinhardt Seminar Vienna. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Nikolaus Barton, actor: Portrait with thoughtfulness and openness . ORF.at from November 4, 2006. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  5. ↑ Once from the fairies to Parsifal ; Performance review in: Online Musik Magazin . Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  6. ↑ Review 1976-2015 ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2016 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. Official website of the Perchtoldsdorf Summer Games. Retrieved May 5, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sommerspiele-perchtoldsdorf.at
  7. ↑ "Amphitryon": Comedy Plunged in Darkness, performance review; in: Der Standard from October 14, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  8. ↑ Bitter Evil Game of the Gods performance review; im: Kurier of October 6, 2014. Accessed May 5, 2016.
  9. ↑ Dancing with and without the abdomen, performance criticism; im: Kleine Zeitung of May 8, 2015. Accessed May 5, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Barton, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna