Heinrich Schweiger
| Heinrich Schweiger | |
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Schweiger as Schubert in the 1953 film
Franz Schubert – Ein Leben in zweiI Sätzen. |
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| Born |
Heinrich Schweiger July 23, 1931 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | July 14, 2009 (aged 77) Salzburg, Austria |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1949–2009 |
| Spouse(s) | Ursula Stenzel (1983–2009) |
Heinrich Schweiger (July 23, 1931, Vienna – July 14, 2009) was a Viennese film and stage actor who played leading roles at the Burgtheater on the Ring beginning in 1949. Among the plays in which he starred were Schiller’s Don Carlos, Shakespeare’s Othello and Richard III and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera.
The actor’s last roles were in Wallenstein, Franz Lehár’s Das Land des Lächelns and in an ORF TV series.
After studying at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, he debuted at the Burgtheater at the age of 18. His breakthrough role came at the age of 22 in Arthur Schnitzler's Komtesse Mizzi.
He had roles in the 1960s at the Freien Volksbühne in Berlin under Erwin Piscator and the city’s Theater am Kurfürstendamm under Leonard Steckel. In the 1970s he played at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg under Boy Gobert.
Schweiger also took on the roles of the devil and mammon for 12 years in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival and had guest roles at the Akademietheater and the Perchtoldsdorf Summer Festival.
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