Paulus Manker

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Full Name	Paulus Manker
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Jan 25, 1958(1958-01-25)
Age	66
Birthplace	Vienna
Country	Austria
Horoscope	Capricorn

Paulus Manker Biography

Paulus Manker is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on January 25, 1958 in Vienna, Austria. Paulus Manker (born 25 January 1958) is an Austrian film actor and director, and also screenplay writer and author.

Israeli author Joshua Sobol is Manker’s most important collaborator in the field of art. Manker has worked with Sobol since 1985 and they’ve completed a number of projects designed to develop new spatial dimensions and new forms of theatrical experience.

In 1986, Peter Zadek invited Manker to join the famous ensemble at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, of which he was a member from 1986 to

1989. Here, for the first time, he played on stage the leading role of anti- Semitic Jewish philosopher Otto Weininger in the play Weininger’s Last Night by Joshua Sobol, which caused much furore. After that, he was Octavius Caesar in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar with Ulrich Tukur, Lindekuh in Frank Wedekind’s Musik (Music) with Susanne Lothar, and slave trader Casti-Piani in Peter Zadek’s legendary staging of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu.

In 1990, Manker returned to the Viennese Burgtheater under Claus Peymann, and took the role of Carlos in Peymann’s production of Goethe’s Clavigo (with Ulrich Mühe as Clavigo). He was also Bassanio in Peter Zadek’s production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (with Gert Voss as Shylock and Eva Mattes as Portia), and Pozzo in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot). In 1993, he staged Franz Molnar’s Liliom at the Burgtheater, and in 1996 Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera (with costumes by Vivienne Westwood).

Manker is the child of actor Hilde Sochor and director of the theatre Gustav Manker. He studied in the Max Reinhardt Drama School in Vienna where he studied acting and acting and directing. Manker made his film debut with Lemminge (Lemmings) (dir. Michael Haneke) in 1979.

Paulus Manker Net Worth

Paulus Manker is one of the richest Film Director from Austria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paulus Manker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In his role as a film actor, Manker first was seen as a character actor in Lemmings from the year 1979 (directed by Michael Haneke). Then came Exit – Don’t Panic (1980) and The Locked-Out (1982, based on the novel written by Elfriede Jelinek), The Power of Emotions by Alexander Kluge (1983) and Who was Edgar Allan? (1984 and with a director of Michael Haneke), as and the film by Luc Bondy The Distant Land (1987) with Michel Piccoli.

Manker’s first engagements while at the drama school led Manker on a trip to his first performance at the Viennese Burgtheater (1979 Arthur Schnitzler’s Comedy of Seduction with set design by Hans Hollein and costumes by Karl Lagerfeld), then to the Vienna Festival (1980, The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus), and then to participate as part of”the “co-determination model” at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt (1980/81), to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg (1982 and Jean Genet’s Deathwatch as well as The Residenztheater, in Munich and in 1983 his first collaboration in the direction of Peter Zadek (Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder along with Barbara Sukowa), where was a long-term participant of Zadek’s famed group.

Manker first worked as a film director in 1985, and his film Schmutz (Dirt) premiered at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. The film received several awards at other festivals, and was turned into a novel by Thorsten Becker. In 1988 there followed Weininger’s Last Night, in 1992 The Eye of the Typhoon with German rock band Einstürzende Neubauten, in 1995 The Moor’s Head, based on a screenplay by Michael Haneke with Gert Voss in his first film role, and Angela Winkler, then in 1996 the documentary film Hans Hollein – Everything is Architecture plus various short films including, in 2004, the portrait of his 80-year-old mother, actress Hilde Sochor.

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Paulus Manker engaged in more theatre work with Luc Bondy (Ödön von Horvath’s Figaro Gets a Divorce, 1998), with Christoph Schlingensief (Foreigners Out! Schlingensief’s Container, 2000) and on repeated occasions with Peter Zadek (White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, 1996, Polonius in Hamlet, with Angela Winkler and Otto Sander, Hamburg, 2000), The Jew of Malta (2001) as well as in plays by Botho Strauss.

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Paulus Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Austria. Paulus Manker celebrates birthday on January 25 of every year.

In 2010, Manker was awarded the prestigious Nestroy Audience Award.