1. Paulus Manker was born on 25 January 1958 and is an Austrian film director and actor, as well as an author and screenplay writer.
12 Facts About Paulus Manker
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Paulus Manker is the son of actress Hilde Sochor and theatre director Gustav Paulus Manker.
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Paulus Manker trained at the Max Reinhardt Drama School in Vienna, studying acting and directing.
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In 1986, Peter Zadek invited Paulus Manker to join the famous ensemble at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, of which he was a member from 1986 to 1989.
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Paulus Manker first worked as a film director in 1985, and his film Schmutz premiered at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival in the Quinzaine des Realisateurs.
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Paulus Manker first worked as a director at the Vienna Volkstheater, with Weiningers Nacht by Joshua Sobol, in which he himself played the leading role, and which became his most famous role.
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In 1990, Paulus Manker returned to the Viennese Burgtheater under Claus Peymann, and took the role of Carlos in Peymann's production of Goethe's Clavigo.
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Paulus Manker played the suicidal organist in Joseph Vilsmaier's Brother of Sleep, as well as playing in Michael Haneke's The Castle and in Code Unknown with Juliette Binoche.
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Paulus Manker performed in Michael Glawogger's film Slumming, a 2006 entry in the Berlin Film Festival competition section; in this film, with a "hyperplastic presence", Manker portrays homeless alcoholic Franz Kallmann in the style of a poete maudit, "truly setting his role on fire".
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Paulus Manker engaged in more theatre work with Luc Bondy, with Christoph Schlingensief and on repeated occasions with Peter Zadek, The Jew of Malta as well as in plays by Botho Strauss.
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In 2010 Paulus Manker appeared in the Salzburg Festival as Theseus in the acclaimed production of Jean Racine's Phedre, playing alongside Sunnyi Melles.
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In 2010, Paulus Manker was awarded the prestigious Nestroy Audience Award.