Peter Wolfsberger

Peter Wolfsberger (born October 6, 1949 in Vienna ) is an Austrian television and stage actor .

life and work

During his acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar , which he completed in 1973, Wolfsberger was engaged for his first leading role on television. His first stage engagement took him to the Schauspielhaus Zürich , followed by a guest appearance at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt , further television roles and an engagement at the Salzburg State Theater . He has been a member of the Vienna Burgtheater ensemble since 1977 , where he has since appeared in over 60 roles.

At the Salzburg Festival he was the announcer in Jedermann am Domplatz from 1982 to 1989 , in 1991 he played the Neugebauer in Difficult there , and in 2013 he played the fairy king Stellaris, the ticket seller and the servant in the Zwirn house in the successful production of Lumpazivagabundus by Johann Nestroy , a co-production with the Burgtheater . He also made several guest appearances at the Reichenau Festival .

Wolfsberger regularly appears in radio plays , for example in the three Schnitzler settings Der Grüne Kakadu (1989), Zwischenpiel (1992) and Die Schwestern or Casanova in Spa (1995).

Filmography (selection)

• 1980: country that speaks my language
• 1981: Ringstrasse Palace
• 2004: With your eyes
• 2011: The Rosenheim Cops - A will rarely comes alone

Theater (selection)

Burgtheater:

• 1975: The Spendthrift of Ferdinand Raimund , Role: FLITTERSTEIN
• 1978: The wide country by Arthur Schnitzler , role: Otto Aigner
• 1979: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare , role: Lysander
• 1980: He wants to make a joke of Johann Nestroy , role: August Sonders
• 1981: Professor Bernhardi from Arthur Schnitzler , role: Dr. Kurt Pflugfelder
• 1982: The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen , role: Molvik
• 1983: The Death of the Salesman by Arthur Miller , role: Bernard
• 1983: Round dance by Arthur Schnitzler , role: the count
• 1984: The possessed by Albert Camus , role: Nikolai Stavrogin
• 1995: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare , role: Capulet
• 2001: Danton's death by Georg Büchner , role: Thomas Payne
• 2009: explodes by Andreas Liebmann , director: Cornelia Rainer - Vestibül
• 2010: The Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum , director: Annette Raffalt , role: Uncle Henry, u. a. - Burgtheater
• 2011: The Boxer or The Second Air of Hans Orsolics von Franzobel , Director: Niklaus Helbling , Role: Father, u. a. - casino
• 2013: Der böse Geist Lumpazivagabundus by Johann Nestroy , director: Matthias Hartmann , roles: Stellaris, a peddler, first servant at Zwirn - Burgtheater in coproduction with the Salzburg Festival
• 2013: King Lear by William Shakespeare , director: Peter Stein , role: Herold, u. a. - Burgtheater

Web links

• Homepage Peter Wolfsberger
• Peter Wolfsberger in the Internet Movie Database (English)