Ignaz Kirchner

Ignaz Kirchner
Kirchner acting, in Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness at the Akademietheater, in 2015
Born
Hanns-Peter Kirchner-Wierichs

(1946-07-13)13 July 1946
Wuppertal, Germany
Died26 September 2018(2018-09-26) (aged 72)
Vienna, Austria
EducationSchauspielschule Bochum
Occupation(s)Actor, director
Organizations
Awards
  • Kainz Medal
  • Actor of the Year

Ignaz Kirchner (born Hanns-Peter Kirchner-Wierichs; 13 July 1946 – 26 September 2018)[1] was a German actor who made a career on German-speaking stages, especially at Vienna's Burgtheater where he played for 30 years. A character actor, he worked with leading stage directors. He often played opposite Gert Voss, both in classical drama such as Shakespeare's Antonio, with Voss as Shylock, and as Jago, with Voss as Othello, and especially in black comedies, such as Goldberg in Tabori's Die Goldberg-Variationen (with Voss as Mr. Jay), and in Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys, Beckett's Endspiel and Genet's Die Zofen. Kirchner and Voss were named Schauspielerpaar des Jahres twice, in 1992 and 1998.

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