Actor Gerald Pichowetz has died. This was confirmed on Tuesday by the administration of the Gloria Theater, which Pichowetz directed. On August 1, the viewers favourite, who gained higher fame as “5” within the ORF TV sequence “Kaisermühlen Blues,” would have turned 60.
On the age of 17, Pichowetz attended the Krauss appearing faculty in Vienna following which took classes from Lola Braxton utilizing the Stanislawski system. His skilled profession subsequently included the Theater in der Josefstadt and the Volksoper, and his repertoire included talking roles from drama to comedy in addition to musical theater productions.
In 1992, the primary episodes of “Kaisermühlen Blues” have been broadcast primarily based on the script by Ernst Hinterberger. The sequence achieved cult standing. Pichowetz performed the legendary function of Franzi Mayerhofer, alias “Fünfer”.
Founding father of “Bühne 21”
Pichowetz additionally based the theater “Bühne 21”, which he ran for 20 years. In 2001, the Gloria Theater adopted, the place he labored as a director and actor and which made the media headlines in 2011, amongst different issues, with an audit workplace report on excessive ranges of debt.
In 2013, the actor danced with Roswitha Wieland within the “Dancing Stars” on ORF. In 2018, he was presupposed to turn into director of the Mörbisch Lake Competition. However that did not occur. Pichowetz filed a lawsuit and the events reached a settlement in 2018. The actor additionally labored as an promoting and dubbing speaker.
Pichowetz has been fighting well being issues since present process coronary heart valve surgical procedure in 2020. He’s a dialysis affected person and has additionally developed atrial fibrillation, he informed the every day newspaper “Kurier” final yr. In Might he was once more on stage within the play “Protected is Protected” on the Gloria Theater.
“An unlimited loss for Vienna”
“The dying of Gerald Pichowetz fills me with nice unhappiness,” says Vienna’s mayor Michael Ludwig. “It is a gigantic loss for Vienna, the capital of tradition and theater. Few colleagues have been as well-suited to the Viennese honorary title of ‘viewers favourite’ as he has been to him. He celebrated his first successes on the Theater in der Josefstadt and on the Volksoper. Later he additionally turned – as they generally say in Vienna: ‘theater principal’. He based and directed the Theater Bühne 21 and the Gloria Theater in my house district of Floridsdorf.”
