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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. ==Early life and career== 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.〔http://www.austriantimes.at/?id=14717&print=1〕 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. The actor also had roles in the TV series ''Kommisar Rex'' and ''Ringstraßenpalais'', in the films ''Franz Schubert – ein Leben in zwei Sätzen'' and ''Der Bockerer'', and worked with the Austrian film-maker, Franz Antel. Schweiger successfully portrayed a variety of characters with leading roles in world literature and at the same time been at home in Vienna coffee-house literature.〔Vienna Social Democratic (SPÖ) cultural councillor Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Austrian Times – August, 2009.〕 Schweiger married former MEP and current Vienna first district leader Ursula Stenzel in 1983. It was his third marriage. He died after suffering circulatory failure and a cerebral haemorrhage. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heinrich Schweiger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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