The actor Ignaz Kirchner is dead. This was announced by the Burgtheater in Vienna, where he was a member of the ensemble for decades. Kirchner succumbed to a long illness, according to the statement.
In 1946 he was born in Wuppertal. Before training as an actor in Bochum, he first completed a bookseller's apprenticeship - in order, if it did not work with the acting, to have a secure profession.
That was not necessary. At the beginning of the seventies, Kirchner already played in first roles at the Freie Volksbühne in Berlin, then Claus Peymann brought him into his ensemble in Stuttgart. In 1980, his portrayal of Hamlet was a great success in Bremen.
His other stations included the Kammerspiele Munich and the Schauspielhaus in Cologne, where he worked with theater greats such as Dieter Dorn, Thomas Langhoff and Jürgen Flimm. In 1987, Peymann again engaged him for the Burgtheater Vienna, where he played with short interruptions until today.
There he was seen in George Tabori's "Mein Kampf" and Peter Zadek's "Ivanov" interpretation. One of his most famous roles in Vienna was the Jago in Tabori's "Othello" production. An intense artistic collaboration with his acting colleague Gert Voss, both of whom were selected in 1991 for their performance in Tabori's "Goldberg Variations" for the actor pair of the year.
In cinema or television Ignaz Kirchner was rarely seen, he played for Leander Haußmann in "Sonnenallee" and "NVA".