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Osnabrück (dpa) - The actor Jens Harzer only kept the biggest award in the German-speaking theater, the Iffland-Ring, in an unusual place.
"The ring was in our daughter's underpants drawer for a long time, until we found it too stupid and moved it to another place," said the 48-year-old from the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.
The respective wearer of the Iffland-Ring is considered to be the "most worthy" of the actors in the German-speaking area.
The Swiss Bruno Ganz, who died in 2019, had bequeathed the Ring Harzer in his will for life.
As planned, he then named his successor within three months, Harzer told the newspaper.
"If you get the ring, you take part in this game, and who am I to oppose this special tradition?"
He could change his mind over time.
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The ring was donated by the then famous actor August Wilhelm Iffland (1759-1814).
All of the nine previous porters were men.
Harzer declared in 2019 that of course a woman should also be able to get the ring.
Born in Wiesbaden from Harz, he played death from 2001 to 2004 at the Salzburg Festival in "Jedermann".
At the Burgtheater he could be seen with Peter Handke's guest performance "Immer noch Sturm".
On television, Harzer played roles in “Tatort” and the series “Babylon Berlin”.
In 2008 and 2011, Harzer was named actor of the year according to a critics' survey by the magazine “Theater heute”.
The actor has been a member of the ensemble at the Hamburg Thalia Theater for many years and has also been seen at the Schauspielhaus Bochum since 2018.
That is why he "did not have the existential worries that many freelance colleagues have" during the Corona crisis, he said.
It is now the task of the theater directors to ensure, with the cultural politicians, that there are no permanent savings in the donations to the theater.
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