Rupert Seidl (actor)

Rupert J. Seidl (born August 24, 1955 in Bonn ) is a German film and theater actor . He became known to a wider audience as the protagonist Xaver of the Bavarian cult film Xaver and his extraterrestrial friend .

Life

Seidl studied from 1977 to 1980 at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart . He then worked for six years at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . After Claus Peymann's directorship in Bochum ended, he did not go to the Burgtheater in Vienna , but founded together with some ex-Peymann mimes (including Crescentia Dünßer , Franz Xaver Zach, Otto Kukla ) and the musicians Eckard Koltermann and Ralf Kaupenjohann the independent theater group Sezession in Bochum, whose performances aroused the interest of the commission, which was looking for a successor to the outgoing artistic director Holk Freytag at the Moers Castle Theater . In 1988, Seidl first moved to the Moers Castle Theater as an actor , and from 1990 to 1999 he was also director there. He has been a member of the Theater an der Ruhr ensemble since 1999 .

1981: Saint Joan of the slaughterhouses (second worker)
1986: Xaver and his extraterrestrial friend (Xaver)
1987: The girl with the lighters (Stefan)
1993: Magic Müller (Willy)
1993: Texas - Doc Snyder holds the world in suspense (stutterer)
2005: 20 years of Xaver - 20th Anniversary Feature (bonus material for the DVD )
2015: The missing gray (man in the car wash)

Graffiti with poems by Dita von Szadkowski and music by Theo Jörgensmann (NOM Records, 1993)

personal data
SURNAME	Seidl, Rupert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Seidl, Rupert J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German film and theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 24, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bonn