Michael Schottenberg
Michael Schottenberg (* July 10, 1952 in Vienna) is an Austrian actor, director and theater director.
Biography
Schottenberg received his training as an actor 1971 - 1974 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since then he has worked in numerous roles at various theaters in Vienna and Berlin. Since 1978 he works as a director. Among other things, he designed the " Piaf tour " for his wife Maria Bill.
In addition Schottenberg interacts with both as an actor and as a director in theater and television films.
In 1984 he founded his own theater, the theater in the head, with which he tries to achieve very close audience presentations. In a specially built theater marquee in front of the Votive Church, he reached with performances of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1987) and Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1988 ), more than 20,000 spectators each.
In the fall of 2005, he assumed - as the successor of Emmy Werner - artistic director of the Viennese popular theater. After initial resistance on the part of the press and of the ancestral audience against his ideas, after which the productions of popular theater, not only accepted by both the audience and the critics, but often celebrated.
Schottenberg was for 35 years, married to Mary Bill, 2011 settled the couple divorced. They have one son (* 1988).
Activities
Theater
- As Karl Maria Magdalena von Hebbel ( Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna
- Don Juan in Don Gil of the green pants from de Molina / Boeser ( Freie Volksbühne Berlin, 1977)
- Stan Laurel Stan and Ollie and directing in Vienna by Widmer ( Schauspielhaus (Vienna) )
- Bleichenwang in As You Like It by Shakespeare ( Schauspielhaus Wien)
- Merkl - in Franz Kasimir and Karoline von Horvath ( Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna)
- Grease ( Director ), Raimund Theater, Vienna, 1994
- Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand (Director), National Theatre Vienna 1996 (Karl Skraup price)
- The Talisman of Nestroy (Director), National Theatre Vienna 2002 ( the Nestroy Theatre Prize and the Skraup Prize )
- Poland is not yet lost by J. Hofmann, Metropol, Vienna and Klagenfurt Stadttheater 2003 ( Nestroy Theatre Prize )
- Than pine laborers whistle Spitz ( the publisher ) in freedom in backwater of Johann Nestroy, folk theater Vienna (13 November 2005) and the Stadttheater Klagenfurt (13 May 2006)
Directing at the Vienna People's Theatre from 2005:
- Season 05/ 06: India (Alfred villages and Josef Hader ), Freedom in remote places (Johann Nestroy ) and Weininger's Night ( Joshua Sobol )
- Season 06/ 07: The Rat Race (Michael Frayn ) and Cabaret ( Joe Masteroff )
- Game 07/08: a joke he wants to make (Johann Nestroy )
- Season 09 /10: In vain (Johann Nestroy ) and Liliom (Franz Molnar )
- Season 10/ 11: King of the Alps and the Misanthrope ( Ferdinand Raimund )
Filmography
As a performer, unless otherwise indicated:
These guest roles in television series such as come Soko Kitzbühel, Kommissar Rex or Trautmann.
Awards
- Karl Skraup Price