Robert Seethaler
Robert Seethaler (born August 7, 1966 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer , screenwriter and actor .
life and work
Robert Seethaler grew up in Vienna. He has a congenital eye defect (minus 17 diopters ) and therefore attended a primary school for the visually impaired.
Seethaler attended drama school in Vienna's Volkstheater and worked in a large number of productions for cinema and television as well as at theaters in Vienna, Berlin, Stuttgart and Hamburg. He is known to the television audience as »Dr. Kneissler «in the series A strong team known. In 2015, Robert Seethaler starred alongside Rachel Weisz in the role of Luca Moroder in Paolo Sorrentino's film Eternal Youth .
Seethaler's novels, among others, Die Biene and Kurt , The Further Prospects , Now It's Getting Serious and 2012 The Tobacconist by Verlag Kein & Aber (Zurich) have been published. In 2014 the novel A Whole Life about the cable car worker Andreas Egger was published by Hanser Berlin .
In the novel Das Feld (2018) Seethaler lets 29 dead people tell their interconnected stories in a cemetery in the Austrian province. In the novel The Last Movement , published in 2020, the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler thinks back to his life on his journey from America to Europe in April 1911 on board the SS America . In week 35/2020, The Last Sentence was on the Spiegel bestseller list for hardcover fiction for the first time .
Seethaler has received a number of prizes and grants for his publications. The film, based on his script for The Second Woman , was made by Hans Steinbichler, premiered at the Munich Film Festival and received three Grimme Awards in 2009 .
Robert Seethaler lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg and Vienna.
Single track
- The bee and Kurt. Novel. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-0369-5155-5 ; Paperback edition, ibid. 2014, ISBN 978-3-0369-5915-3 .
- The further prospects. Novel. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-0369-5525-4 ; Goldmann, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-47172-0 .
- Now it's getting serious. Novel. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-0369-5574-2 ; Goldmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-47672-5 .
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The tobacconist . Novel. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-0369-5645-9 ; ibid. 2013, ISBN 978-3-0369-5909-2 .
- Robert Seethaler reads Der Trafikant. Unabridged author reading. 5 CDs. Roof Music, Bochum 2015, ISBN 978-3-86484-115-6 .
- A whole life. Novel. Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24645-4 .
- The field. Novel. Hanser Berlin / Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26038-2 .
- The last sentence. Novel. Hanser, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-446-26788-6 .
Scripts
- The second wife , Sperl & Schott Film, 2008
- Heartbreakin '
- Harry Stein
Filmography (selection)
- 1997: The Knickerbocker Gang (TV series)
- 1999: Heroes in Tirol (Direction Niki List )
- 2000: Ten Insane Days ( Christian Wagner )
- 2000: Stefanie, just in case (TV series)
- 2002: Victor - The Guardian Angel (TV Series)
- 2002: Coast Guard (TV Series)
- 2002: The Clever (TV Series)
- 2002: Love is allowed to do anything (TV mini-series)
- 2002: The Thick Heads (Direction Walter Bannert )
- 2002: Jul's girlfriend (director Kai Wessel )
- 2001–2003: In the Name of the Law (TV series)
- 2003: Come on, we're dreaming! (Direction Leo Hiemer )
- 2004: With a heart and handcuffs (TV series)
- 2005: The Track in the Snow ( Robert Narholz Director )
- 2005: A Cold Summer (directed by Hartmut Schoen )
- 2006-2007: Einstein Castle (TV series)
- 2007: SOKO LEIPZIG (TV series)
- 2010: The Vintner King (TV series)
- 2015: Eternal Youth ( Paolo Sorrentino )
- 2002–16: A strong team (TV series)
- 2016: SOKO Donau (TV series)
- 2016: Crime scene : shock
- 2018: The tobacconist
- 2019: How I learned to be a child with myself
Awards
- 2005: Tankred Dorst script award from the script workshop Munich for Heartbreakin '
- 2007: Buddenbrookhaus's debut prize for Die Biene and Kurt
- 2008: Alfred Döblin Scholarship / Academy of the Arts Berlin
- 2008: Culture Prize of the State of Lower Austria
- 2008: My Mother, My Bride and I (Eng. The second woman) at the International Toronto Film Festival
- 2009: Spreewald Literature Scholarship
- 2009: Grimme Prize for The Second Woman (Best Film)
- 2009: Nomination for the European Media Prize for Integration
- 2011: State grant from the Austrian federal government
- 2011: Scholarship from the Heinrich Heine House of the City of Lüneburg
- 2015: Grimmelshausen Prize for a Whole Life
- 2016: Nomination for the Man Booker International Prize
- 2016: Book Prize of the Viennese Economy
- 2017: Anton Wildgans Prize
- 2017: Shortlist of the International DUBLIN Literary Award with A Whole Life
- 2018: Rheingau Literature Prize for The Field
literature
- Felix Stephan : Mahler shivered. Review. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 1, 2020, p. 18
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Seethaler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Robert Seethaler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Robert Seethaler at perlentaucher.de
- Short biography and information on the work of Robert Seethaler at Literaturport
- Robert Seethaler on the Kelterborn agency website
- Robert Seethaler's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c BR Mediathek: Broadcast Capriccio from December 4, 2014 about Robert Seethaler: Unhappiness is necessary to feel happiness ( Memento from January 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Agency Kelterborn accessed on February 16, 2016.
- ↑ orf.at - Viennese author Seethaler receives Grimmelshausen Prize . Article dated July 31, 2015, accessed July 31, 2015.
- ↑ orf.at - Robert Seethaler receives Anton Wildgans Prize 2017 . Article dated February 24, 2017, accessed February 24, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seethaler, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th August 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |