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Encyclopedia > Karl Merkatz

Karl Merkatz (b. November 17, 1930 in Wiener Neustadt) is a well-known Austrian actor. He participated in numerous Austrian film productions and plays.


Major roles


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Karl Merkatz feiert 75. Geburtstag (587 words)
Karl Merkatz wurde 1930 als Sohn eines Werkzeugmachers und einer Weberin in Wiener Neustadt geboren - und hatte alles andere als eine große Theaterkarriere in Aussicht.
Auf der Bühne spielte Merkatz Raimund und Nestroy, Goethe, Beckett und Shakespeare und beeindruckte mit seinem "Affen-Monolog" nach Kafkas "Bericht für eine Akademie".
Karl Merkatz: "Was ich dir sagen möchte: Bleib genau wie du bist!", Aufgezeichnet von Caroline Kleibel, ecowin Verlag, 9,90 Euro.
Karl Merkatz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (275 words)
Another big success came with the films "Bockerer" starring as a naive Viennese during the Second World War in Vienna (the later films are set in the subsequent years to 1945).
Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter: literally, A Genuine Viennese Does Not Go Under: In this show, which is about the life of a Viennese working-class family, he played Edmund "Mundl" Sackbauer, for which he is most known.
Der Bockerer I-IV:, Merkatz plays the role of the Viennese butcher Karl Bockerer, who as a social democrat is shown during the time of the Anschluss and in the struggle against national socialism, during the post-war occupation of Austria by allied forces, during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Prague Spring of 1968.
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