Ignaz Kirchner
German stage and film actor, active at major stages including Vienna's Burgtheater (1946-2018) · Germany · On the map · Actors · Died at 72
Ignaz Kirchner was a German actor who made a career on German-speaking stages, especially at Vienna's Burgtheater where he played for 30 years. A character actor, he worked with leading stage directors.
Ignaz Kirchner is read about 17 times a day, in 6 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 22 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Dinosaurier - Gegen uns seht ihr alt aus!Film, Victor Semlitsch2008
TeufelsbratenSeries, Lehrer2005
Kabale und LiebeFilm, Mr. Miller
NVAFilm, 2005Hauptfeldwebel Futterknecht2000
Zimmer mit FrühstückFilm1999
SonnenalleeFilm, Heinz1996
MännerpensionFilm, Murrmann1989
Hanna Monster, DarlingFilm, Rudolf1979Esch oder Die AnarchieFilm, Lohberg - Zigarettenhändler1977
The BrothersFilm1946Born13 July 1946People around Ignaz
Close ties
Leander Haußmann Directed Sonnenallee, Kabale und Liebe and NVA
Detlev Buck Produced Sonnenallee (1999)
Ezard Haußmann Also in NVA (2005), directed Sonnenallee (1999)
Steffi Kühnert Also in Sonnenallee and NVA
Heike Makatsch Also in Jailbirds and Männerpension
Thomas Brussig Wrote Sonnenallee and NVA
Katharina Thalbach Also in Sonnenallee and NVA
Horst Krause Also in Jailbirds and Männerpension
Jenny Elvers Also in Jailbirds and Männerpension
Annika Kuhl Also in Sonnenallee and NVA
Filmography 9
10 credits on file
Television 1
Media & music
Photos 1
Awards
About this person
He often played opposite Gert Voss, both in classical drama such as Shakespeare's Antonio, with Voss as Shylock, and as Jago, with Voss as Othello, and especially in black comedies, such as Goldberg in Tabori's Die Goldberg-Variationen, and in Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys, Beckett's Endspiel and Genet's Die Zofen. Kirchner and Voss were named Schauspielerpaar des Jahres twice, in 1992 and 1998.
