Herbert Walzl

Herbert Walzl ( born November 12, 1959 in Styria ) is an Austrian actor, director and playwright in theater.

Life as an actor

Herbert Walzl born in Styria in 1959, with six years he moved with his parents to carry wine. After school, he graduated as a bricklayer. Besides his work as a construction company polishing the Mauthausnerstraße Herbert Walzl visited twice a week in Linz acting lessons. He completed this training on the Joint Examination Board in 1994. Since 1990 he has worked as a project manager for an employment project for long-term unemployed in Steyr.

Herbert Walzl conducts numerous workshops and seminars in the field of drama, elocution and group dynamics.

He is the founder and current chairman of the theater Sellawie in Enns, as well as artistic director at the theater in the courtyard in Enns. Furthermore, he is still a board member of the Art Association upstream in Linz and member of the Greiner Dilettantengesellschaft.

Playwright

As a playwright Herbert Walzl writes every book of his stage projects themselves either it results in completely new texts, such as " 2 Floor, door 7 "( comedy), or processes the traditional theater texts again. Was created in 2009 in collaboration with the composer Wiff Enzenhofer his first musical, " Robin Hood". First performed in the basement of the castle Ennsegg in Enns in the course of production of the theater Sellawie under the production direction of Thomas Zimmermann '. Author of socially conscious youth songs like " Broken Scrolls " and " game (s) ". Neuadaptierung the classic fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid " and " The Snow Queen ", premiered on the fairy tale boat on the Danube.

More piece versions: Dracula (2010) Frankenstein (2011) The Nibelungensage I - " Siegfried" (2012) Nibelungensage II - " Kriemhild's Revenge " (2013 )

Awards

Herbert Walzl got quite a few awards for his works. Among other things, the Citta Slow award the city of Enns (2007) with the theater Sellawie for his new version of Dracula. 2010 Herbert Walzl was awarded the culture prize of the city of Enns.

Walzl was counted by the Upper Austrian news on the 1000 Country people who make a difference in Upper Austria.