Birgit Minichmayr is an Austrian

Austrians

Austrians are a nation and ethnic group, consisting of the population of the Republic of Austria and its historical predecessor states who share a common Austrian culture and Austrian descent....

 actress and singer born in Linz

Linz

Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. Birgit Minichmayr studied drama at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

.

Career

Minichmayr had her first break with the Burgtheater

Burgtheater

The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the...

 in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, where she appeared in numerous plays, including "Der Reigen" by Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler

Dr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.- Biography :Arthur Schnitzler, son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter , was born in Praterstraße 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian...

 (staged by Sven-Eric Bechtolf), "Troilus and Cressida" by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

 (staging by Declan Donnellan

Declan Donnellan

Declan Donnellan is a British theatre director and writer. He is co-founder of Cheek by Jowl theatre company. In 1992 he received an honoris causa degree from the University of Warwick and in 2004 he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his work in France...

) and "Der Färber und sein Zwillingsbruder" by Johann Nestroy

Johann Nestroy

Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath...

 (staged by Karlheinz Hackl

Karlheinz Hackl

Karlheinz Hackl is an Austrian actor whose varied career has included theater, television, film and cabaret performances as well as directing....

). She made her cinema debut in 2000 as Barbara Brecht in Jan Schütte

Jan Schütte

Jan Schütte is a German film director and screenwriter. He has directed twelve films since 1982. His film Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...

's Abschied

The Farewell

The Farewell is a 2000 German drama film directed by Jan Schütte. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Josef Bierbichler - Bertolt Brecht* Monica Bleibtreu - Helene Weigel...

, playing alongside Sepp Bierbichler and Monika Bleibtreu. In 2000, Minichmayr appeared in Peter Sämann's television thriller (in the Tatort

Tatort

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss , crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF 2 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland...

series), "Böses Blut". She was awarded the Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n Nestroy Prize for "Best Young Talent" in 2000. In 2006 she played Mizzi Kasper, one of the lovers from Crownprince Rudolf in the movie Kronprinz Rudolf. A year later, Minichmayr played the fool in Luc Bondy

Luc Bondy

- Biography :Trained in Paris with the theatre teacher Jacques Lecoq, he received a job in 1969 as an assistant at the Hamburg Thalia Theatre. In a surprise, he took over in 1985 after the resignation of Peter Stein at the Schaubühne in Berlin. He also worked as a producer of both plays and operas...

's acclaimed staging of Shakespeare's King Lear

King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...

, always at the Burgtheater.

Minichmayr currently lives in Berlin and Vienna. She speaks English and has acted in several international and English language productions. Among the directors she worked with were István Szabó

István Szabó

István Szabó is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.Szabó is the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker since the late 1960s. Working in the tradition of European, auteurist art cinema, he has made films that represent many of the psychological and political...

, Götz Spielmann

Götz Spielmann

Götz Spielmann is an Austrian director and scriptwriter.Götz Spielmann grew up in Vienna. After High School, he lived in Paris for several months. From 1980 to 1987 he studied film direction and script-writing in Vienna at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien...

, Tom Tykwer

Tom Tykwer

Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International ....

, Oliver Hirschbiegel

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Oliver Hirschbiegel is a German film director. His works include Das Experiment and the Oscar nominated Der Untergang.- Career :...

, Robert Dornhelm

Robert Dornhelm

Robert Dornhelm is an Austrian film and television director of Romanian ancestry. He has worked on numerous television programmes and has also released such movies as Echo Park, The Venice Project, Der Unfisch, and A Further Gesture...

, and Doris Dörrie

Doris Dörrie

Doris Dörrie is a German film director, producer and author.-Life and work:Dörrie completed her secondary education at a humanist Gymnasium. In 1973 she began a two-year attendance in film studies, in the drama department of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She then studied...

. She is also an accomplished vocalist, and has been recorded several times, though she has always made acting her primary focus.

At the 59th Berlin International Film Festival

59th Berlin International Film Festival

The 59th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 February to 15 February 2009. The opening film of this year's festival was Tom Tykwer’s The International, screened out of competition...

 2009 Minichmayr was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actress

Silver Bear for Best Actress

The Silver Bear for Best Actress is the Berlin International Film Festival's award for achievement in performance by an actress.-Awards:- External links :*...

 for her performance in Maren Ade

Maren Ade

Maren Ade is a German film director, screenwriter and producer.Ade studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. Her gruadation film, The Forest for the Trees, premiered at the 2003 Hof Film Festival, and went on to win the Special Jury Prize for World Cinema at the 2005 Sundance...

's Alle Anderen.

Filmography

Date	Film	Role	Director	Notes
2009	Alle Anderen	Gitti	Maren Ade Maren Ade Maren Ade is a German film director, screenwriter and producer.Ade studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. Her gruadation film, The Forest for the Trees, premiered at the 2003 Hof Film Festival, and went on to win the Special Jury Prize for World Cinema at the 2005 Sundance...	Cinema
2009	The White Ribbon The White Ribbon The White Ribbon is a 2009 Austrian-German film, released in black and white, written and directed by Michael Haneke. The drama darkly depicts society and family in a northern German village just before World War I...	Frieda	Michael Haneke Michael Haneke Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...	Cinema
2009	Der Knochenmann	Birgit	Wolfgang Murnberger	Cinema
2008	Kirschblüten - Hanami Cherry Blossoms (film) Cherry Blossoms is a 2008 German film directed by Doris Dörrie.-Plot:The story culminates in a pilgrimage to Mount Fuji in the midst of the cherry blossom season, a celebration of beauty, impermanence, and new beginnings....	Karolin Angermeier	Doris Dörrie Doris Dörrie Doris Dörrie is a German film director, producer and author.-Life and work:Dörrie completed her secondary education at a humanist Gymnasium. In 1973 she began a two-year attendance in film studies, in the drama department of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She then studied...	Cinema
2006	PolizeiRuf 110 - Kellers Kind	Aglaia	Titus Selge	TV movie
2006	Kronprinz Rudolf	Mizzi Kasper	Robert Dornhelm Robert Dornhelm Robert Dornhelm is an Austrian film and television director of Romanian ancestry. He has worked on numerous television programmes and has also released such movies as Echo Park, The Venice Project, Der Unfisch, and A Further Gesture...	TV movie
2006	Janu Nakts	Maja	Alexander Hahn	Cinema
2006	KrankHeit Der Jugend		Students of Michael Haneke Michael Haneke Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...	Cinema
2005	Fallen	Brigitte	Barbara Albert Barbara Albert Barbara Albert is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director.She studied filmmaking at the Wiener Filmakademie. Her first film to become known to a larger audience was Nordrand, which describes the reality of life of Yugoslavian children in Vienna.She heads the production company Coop 99...	Cinema
2005	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Grenouille's Mother	Tom Tykwer Tom Tykwer Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International ....	Cinema
2004	Daniel Käfer - Die Villen Der Frau Hürsch	Mirz Schlömmer	Julian Pölsner	TV movie
2004	Spiele Leben	Tanja	Antonin Svoboda Antonín Svoboda Antonin Svoboda was a Czech computer scientist, mathematician, electrical engineer, and researcher. He is credited with originating the design of fault-tolerant computer systems, and with the creation of SAPO, the first Czech computer design....	Cinema
2003	Downfall Downfall (film) Downfall is a 2004 German/Italian/Austrian epic war film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's life in his Berlin bunker and Nazi Germany in 1945....	Gerda Christian Gerda Christian Gerda "Dara" Christian née Daranowski was one of Adolf Hitler's private secretaries during World War II.-Biography:...	Oliver Hirschbiegel Oliver Hirschbiegel Oliver Hirschbiegel is a German film director. His works include Das Experiment and the Oscar nominated Der Untergang.- Career :...	Cinema
2003	Hotel Hotel (2004 film) Hotel is a 2004 Austrian drama film directed by Jessica Hausner. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Franziska Weisz - Irene* Birgit Minichmayr - Petra* Marlene Streeruwitz - Mrs. Maschek...	Petra	Jessica Hausner Jessica Hausner Jessica Hausner is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She has directed six films since 1995. Her film Lovely Rita was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...	Cinema
2002	Liegen Lernen	Tina	Hendrik Handloeghten	Cinema
2001	Spiel Im Morgengrauen	Steffi	Götz Spielmann Götz Spielmann Götz Spielmann is an Austrian director and scriptwriter.Götz Spielmann grew up in Vienna. After High School, he lived in Paris for several months. From 1980 to 1987 he studied film direction and script-writing in Vienna at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien...	TV movie
2001	Taking Sides Taking Sides (film) Taking Sides is a 2001 German-French-Austrian-British co-production starring Harvey Keitel and Stellan Skarsgård set during the period of denazification investigations conducted in post-war Germany after the Second World War...	Emmi Straube	István Szabó István Szabó István Szabó is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.Szabó is the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker since the late 1960s. Working in the tradition of European, auteurist art cinema, he has made films that represent many of the psychological and political...	Cinema
2000	Tatort - Böses Blut	Kathi	Peter Sämann	TV movie - Awarded Nestroy Prize for Best Young Talent
2000	Abschied The Farewell The Farewell is a 2000 German drama film directed by Jan Schütte. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Josef Bierbichler - Bertolt Brecht* Monica Bleibtreu - Helene Weigel...	Barbara Brecht	Jan Schütte Jan Schütte Jan Schütte is a German film director and screenwriter. He has directed twelve films since 1982. His film Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...	Cinema

Awards

2000: Nestroy Prize for Best Young Talent

2009: 59th Berlin International Film Festival, Best Actress for Everyone Else

Everyone Else

Everyone Else is a 2009 German drama film written and directed by Maren Ade, a German director.- Cast:* Birgit Minichmayr as Gitti* Lars Eidinger as Chris* Nicole Marischka as Sana* Hans-Jochen Wagner as Hans- Film Awards:-Submissions:...

2010: German Film Awards, Nomination Best Actress for Everyone Else

Everyone Else

Everyone Else is a 2009 German drama film written and directed by Maren Ade, a German director.- Cast:* Birgit Minichmayr as Gitti* Lars Eidinger as Chris* Nicole Marischka as Sana* Hans-Jochen Wagner as Hans- Film Awards:-Submissions:...

External links

• Birgit Minichmayr at the Internet Movie Database
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