August Zirner

August Zirner (born 7 January 1956 in Urbana, Illinois, USA) is an American- Austrian actor who has appeared in over 60 film productions.

Life and work

Zirner was the only child of Austrian immigrants of Jewish origin in the United States to the world, and has to this day the U.S. citizenship. His father died when August Zirner was 14 years old. Since 1973 in Europe alive, he visited Vienna, the Max -Reinhardt-Seminar. After the debut at the National Theatre Vienna followed by engagements in Hanover, Wiesbaden and the Munich Chamber games.

He appeared in numerous theatrical and television films, for example in Café Europa (1990 ) by Franz Xaver Bogner, Homo Faber (1990 ) by Volker Schlöndorff, Talk of the Town ( 1995) by Rainer Kaufmann, Winter Child ( 1997) by Margarethe von Trotta, The pharmacist ( 1997) by Rainer Kaufmann and the Counterfeiters by Stefan Ruzowitzky, which in 2008 was awarded an Oscar for best foreign language film. For the film rage, he got the 2006 Grimme Award.

Zirner joined in 2009 as a flutist with the Money Box trio in stage program diagnosis: jazz. From May 2011 Zirner can be seen in Blind Date on the film by Theo van Gogh at the Schauspielhaus Graz in a production by Bernadette Sonnenbichler.

August Zirner is married to actress Katalin ZSIGMONDY; one of his four children is the actor John Zirner. The couple lives in Prien am Chiemsee.

Zirners great-grandfather Ludwig Zwieback led under the name Ludwig Zwieback & brother during the kuk Monarchy is one of the important Viennese clothing stores. His daughter, Ella Zirner Rusk (1878-1970), Zirners grandmother, inherited the essential part of the company. It was expropriated in 1938 by the Nazi regime.

Awards

• 2006 - " Special Recognition " by the German Academy of Performing Arts on the TV Film Festival Baden- Baden for the production team of anger

Filmography (selection)

Audiobooks (selection)

• 2007: Eric Clapton My Life. Roof Music. ISBN 978-3-938781-69-2.
• 2012: Kim Märkl Jazz dreams in Cleveland. A musical journey through the magical world of the saxophone, Monarda Publishing House Ltd.. ISBN 978-3-939513-98-8