Tobias Moretti: “Success means reaching the audience”

The versatile character actor Tobias Moretti (65) is one of the most distinguished actors in German -speaking countries. On February 13 (8:15 p.m., the first one) he can be seen as the eccentric Count Otto von Glanzberg in the latest episode of the Austrian country crime series “Steirermur”. In an interview with the news agency Spot on News, the Tyrolean talks about his special understanding of success, the overarching importance of the theater and he explains how he finds back into everyday life after emotionally stirring roles. In addition, the down -to -earth artist reveals why Valentine’s Day has a very special meaning for him and his family.

Tobias Moretti: In the artistic sense, success means for me if it succeeds in developing a figure constellation conclusively and credibly and also convey it to the audience. The theater in particular is defined by the fact that it is aimed at an audience. And if it succeeds, the better.

Moretti: Without a theater, I cannot imagine my artistic life at all, I come here, for me it is almost the original form of playing, also direct communication with the people sitting there. On the other hand, the proximity of the camera offers the possibility of intimacy, from minimal nuances that cannot be made visible in the theater down to the last row.

Moretti: Perhaps formulated differently: There are works that have shaped me. This is not only due to the role, but also due to the overall constellation of roll, piece or script, colleagues and director. At the theater, I spontaneously remember the “Troilus”, which I played as a young actor at the Munich chamber games, or the “Ottokar” at the Salzburg Festival and at the Burgtheater.

In the film, the collaboration with Heinrich Breloer for “Speer & er” was certainly particularly special, only a historically so responsible director can be entrusted with such a figure. “The dark valley” with Andreas Prochaska also memorized me or “the eternal life” and “Treker” with Wolfgang Murnberger, or “Bad Banks” and “German lesson” with Christian Schwochow.

Moretti: This schizophrenic character in “Brainpinst” was certainly an extreme border gang, in his flights of height and its loss. Actually, I am a well -grounded person, I think, and my everyday life is a lot “blessed” with work, and physical work, and that naturally helps. But I have to admit, if you have accompanied a role for a while, a last performance or a last day of shooting already feels like a very strange farewell. And it can even happen that a role character that you are actually happy to get rid of something like melancholy leaves.

Moretti: This is such a wonderfully absurd character, a bit like it from time. On the one hand, he is through and through aristocrat with a family wood, on the other hand he constantly provokes this low -end family, for example due to his marriage plans that are not at all.

Moretti: So the scene of the first family reunification with Petra Morzé, Hary Prinz, Anna Unterberger and this absurd family is still a wonderful memory. This scene shaped the film for me, and if something like this succeeds in the first quarter of the film, a lot tells about the self -image. That was an extremely successful and successful work.

Moretti: In any case, not as a “backdrop”. It is one of the privileges of our profession that you can always work in a wide variety of regions for a while. It is completely different whether you travel an area as a tourist or have something to do there, in any case you get a lot closer to people at work. Even after so many years and so many places and locations, I am always fascinated by Austria’s diversity. Sometimes I feel like that in Germany; It was also special to shoot on Frisian islands during the “German lesson”, where you don’t know in the evening whether you can get away by boat in the morning.

Moretti: No, I love to turn in Tyrol, but then usually do not live at home so that I can immerse yourself in the figure and the story. “The wedding” was a very challenging and wonderful work for me to find this mixture from a figure and myself improvised out of me. I’m really looking forward to the film.

Moretti: With the commercialization of the Valentine Day, I have less my hat. The tradition comes from English and is already sung in the “Hamlet”, which is more of my access. By the way, “My Funny Valentine” is one of my favorite songs by Chet Baker. But … for us it is a lucky day every year anyway because it is our son’s birthday.

Moretti: The music always reaches into my professional life, I build programs with music-and-text collages, staged operas and sung in Vienna in Vienna in the Mackie Messer Opera in the “Dreusscheroper”. My dramatic understanding is through and through music, which is why it is always present in my player profession.