Salzburg: new dream couple for the festival

Lars Eidinger and Verena Altenberger are the new dream couple at the Salzburg Festival: Eidinger will take on the role of Jedermann at Domplatz in 2021. The 44-year-old Berliner succeeds Tobias Moretti, Altenberger follows Caroline Peters as “Buhlschaft”.

Eidinger is one of the most prominent German-speaking actors today. As the star of the Berlin Schaubühnen Ensemble, it was Hamlet, Richard III. and Peer Gynt, on the big screen he is etched in the minds of the audience and in many television roles.

In 2011 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in William Shakespeare’s “Maß für Maß”. Eidinger’s big screen breakthrough came with Maren Ade’s 2008 relationship drama “Everybody Else” with Birgit Minichmayr. His filmography has been long and varied since then.

“Secretly, I had always expected to be asked for the role of Jedermann at some point, and the fact that I am now part of the ancestral gallery of the best German-speaking theater actors is a great honor that I have received. I’m very grateful for that. It’s a lifelong dream that will come true, ”Eidinger said of Jedermann.

In his portrayal of the role, he came to the aid of an idea he had gotten in “Brecht’s Threepenny Movie,” namely, “that, according to Brecht, thieves should not correspond to a romantically glorified image of a gangster gang. They are the citizens themselves. ” We are the thieves. Nobody.”

Of his predecessors, he has only seen Nicholas Ofczarek at Domplatz and Tobias Moretti on the recording. Gert Voss was “the greatest” for him. Meet her fans Verena Altenberger for the filming of David Schalko’s adaptation of “M – Eine Stadt sucht ein Mörder”: “I think you can go a long way with her because we trust each other.”

Many new appointments

And the two aren’t the only new casts for “Jedermann” in the Michael Sturminger production, which will remain, but will develop further. Edith Clever, who last played everyone’s mother for four years, takes on the role of Peter Lohmeyer’s Death. Angela Winkler is the new mother of the main character. Mavie Hörbiger will be seen as the devil, who becomes a woman for the first time. Newcomers to “everyone” also have a chance: Anton Spieker (everyone’s good friend), Jörg Ratjen (poor neighbor) and Mirco Kreibich (debt servant, Mammon). Beside him, as the wife of the debtor, Anna Rieser, for a long time at the Landestheater Linz, is another woman from Salzburg. The works are embodied by the entire ensemble and the faith of Kathleen Morgeneyer.