Olivia Grigolli

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Olivia Grigolli (* 1963 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian actress .

life and work

Grigolli completed her acting training while she was still at school and played at the regional theater in her hometown at the age of 18 .

She has been a recurring guest at the Salzburg Festival since 1983 and this year played Mathurine in the legendary Ingmar Bergman production by Molières Dom Juan . In this role she made her debut in the same year at the Munich Residenztheater , where she was permanently engaged until 1986. This was followed by freelance engagements, including at the Vienna Burgtheater (as Marianne in Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods , directed by Alfred Kirchner ), at the Theater Basel , the Staatstheater Stuttgart , the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg (as Karoline in Horváth's Kasimir and Karoline directed by Christoph Marthaler ). From 1992 to 1998 she was a member of the Volksbühne at Rosa Luxemburg Platz in Berlin, where she worked with Andreas Kriegenburg for the first time as Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello .

In 1999 and 2014 she played at the Salzburg Festival in Ödön von Horváth's pieces Zur Schöne Aussicht and Don Juan comes from the war , the former staged by Marthaler, the latter by Andreas Kriegenburg . In 2001 she was Marie in Christoph Marthaler's Was ihr wollt production, in 2004 she played Queen Isabella in Sebastian Nübling's production of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on the Pernerinsel in Hallein. In 2009 she was at the world premiere of Giacinto Scelsis and Christoph Marthalers Sauser from Italy. A copyright. , again on Perner Island.

After working together in Hamburg and Salzburg in 2000, Christoph Marthaler committed her to the Zurich Schauspielhaus for five years . There she was in Stefan Pucher's productions of Aeschylus' Oresty and Shakespeare's Richard III. In Karin Henkel's The Vast and Andreas Krieg's stage version of Pillars of Society of Ibsen . Further engagements took her to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (in Schiller's Maria Stuart , directed by Stefan Bachmann , 2008), with Marthaler again to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg (world premiere of Heimweh und Verbrechen , 2014), the Schauspielhaus Graz and the Staatsschauspiel Dresden . There she played in Rheingold based on Richard Wagner , directed by David Marton . This was followed by other productions at the Volksbühne in the seasons 15/16 and 16/17, such as Tessa Blomstedt or Mixed Faces, Well-Known Emotions , both by Christoph Marthaler. Another successful working relationship began in Zurich with Bastian Kraft in Genet's maid and continued in the 16/17 season at DT with the death of a traveling salesman by Arthur Miller at the side of Ulrich Matthes.

Olivia Grigolli also worked with the directors Franz Xaver Kroetz , Frank Castorf , Stefan Bachmann, Jan Bosse , Karin Henkel and Barbara Frey.

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