He became famous with “Inspector Rex”. 30 years later, Tobias Moretti is a fixture in the acting business. The profession has now become a family affair.
The Austrian actor Tobias Moretti is proud of the artistic development of his son and professional colleague Lenz Moretti. “He has an enormous dramatic imagination, and on top of that he has sovereignty and craftsmanship – and he has his own individual approach,” said his father, who celebrates his 65th birthday on July 11th.
Father and son will soon be on stage together in Kleist’s “The Broken Jug” at the Tyrolean Folk Theater in Telfs. “We meet each other like colleagues at work, and we also prepare separately for our roles,” said Moretti in a written interview with the German Press Agency. “During rehearsals, it is really fun to see Lenz’s development.”
Moretti, who became known in the 1990s as an investigator in the TV series “Inspector Rex”, has also appeared in front of the camera with his daughter Antonia for the “In the Net of the Camorra” films (2021-22). Most recently, Tobias Moretti shot the ARD improvisational comedy “The Wedding” and the TV country crime thriller “Steirermord”.
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This summer, however, the focus is on work on stage. Moretti is not only performing in Telfs, but also at the Salzburg Festival, where he played the title role in “Jedermann” between 2017 and 2020. “I can hardly imagine a summer without the festival, I actually take part in some kind of event every year,” said the artist, who also runs a farm in his homeland of Tyrol with his wife Julia Moretti.
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This year, Moretti will be taking on a speaking role in Salzburg in a concert performance of the works “Il canto sospeso” and “Il prigioniero,” which focus on rebellion against fascism and oppression. In June, Moretti appeared in Shanghai in a guest performance of the Vienna Burgtheater in Sartre’s play “No Exit.” The audience was very enthusiastic, the actor said. “It may also have been the play that impressed people: hell as a prison surrounded by a huge gray wall,” he said. “For us, a diverse, independent and free-thinking cultural life is almost a given; here it became clear again what a wealth we have in Europe.”
He doesn’t see his 65th birthday as a special anniversary: ”I’ve never really celebrated my birthday on a large scale, maybe that’s because as a child my birthday was always during the summer holidays when everyone was away.”
Source: Stern
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