Dominique Horwitz lives near Weimar with his wife, dogs and cat. Now he’s 65, but he doesn’t want to celebrate. Horwitz has been wearing a beard lately and looks old with it. Why is he doing this?
The actor Dominique Horwitz will be spending his 65th birthday (April 23) in the Berlin Philharmonie.
«It happens to me very often that I work on my birthday. Which doesn’t bother me at all, because this day doesn’t interest me. I’m not interested in birthdays,” says Horwitz. “Being in the world is something you can’t do anything about.” The situation is completely different with anniversaries: the 25th wedding anniversary should be duly celebrated.
Horwitz’s home is a house on the outskirts of the Thuringian city of Weimar. A cat, three dogs, the kids are out of the house. “Projects are the most exciting thing about my life. Otherwise it’s completely calm, »says the man who describes himself as old. “I’ll get my pension in nine months. And as is well known, it is not the young who get a pension. » But that’s okay after 46 years of work.
About the worst time of his life
He grew the beard that currently adorns his face while filming a Netflix series in Marseille. He has to stay until the end of July. Does that make him look old? “Exactly. And I think it’s great.”
This serenity was not always there, but had to set in first. “Getting older has been a big concern for me. From my 55th birthday to my 59th, so four years. That was the worst time of my life,” says Horwitz. At that time he had the deep-seated fear of no longer being able to implement projects and things that he had planned, for which he was passionate – because time was running out. «The clock has never ticked as fast for me as it has in these four years. I really panicked.”
Inspired projects in the future
Getting old is “the worst and most superfluous thing that can happen to you”. “Being old”, on the other hand, is downright entertaining. “So I have set myself the following goals for the next few decades: to experience as much as possible together with my wife, to implement exciting and inspired professional projects, and at 80 to welcome the slow onset of old age. I die at 100 and still hear my wife say: “At some point it has to be good too!”»
At the end of the year he wants to try something new and play a French tabloid play in Berlin’s Schloßparktheater. Appointments have been made until 2024. «One thing is for sure: I will find the point at some point where I can say: Well, now it’s finally the end of the day. And then the game will actually be over. At some point you have to start growing up.”
Source: Stern
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