Vienna (OTS) – Klaus Höring was named “Actor of the Year 2023” by the ORF radio play jury. The honor will take place as part of the “Ö1 Radio Play Gala” broadcast live by Ö1 on February 23rd from 7 p.m. in the ORF RadioKulturhaus in Vienna.
Since 1997, an expert jury has chosen the radio play actress or actor of the year. This time, Klaus Höring was chosen for his outstanding performances in more than 50 ORF radio play productions, including the play “Sladek” by Ödön von Horváth (2001), in “Komm, Süßer Tod” (2002) by Wolf Haas, and in Elisabeth Weilenmann’s “Antigone. A poem” (2020), in “What do you see? The Night!” by Ludwig Fels (2022) or most recently in Daniel Wisser’s “Waiting Room” (2023).
“Working with Klaus Höring is a great blessing. His characters are straightforward, direct and unpretentious, and still young even in old age. His voice comes through the microphone immediately and naturally. He is a linguistic aesthete and vocal acrobat who loves and is loved by the microphone. It is as if you were secretly listening to a person who was simply being who they were, completely unobserved,” said the jury. The “Actor of the Year 2023” honor is one of the highlights of the “Ö1 Radio Play Gala” on February 23rd at the RadioKulturhaus. The laudatory speech for Klaus Höring will be given by actor Wolfgang Hübsch.
Klaus Höring was born in Cologne in 1934. He completed his acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. After making his stage debut in Bern, he was a member of the Vienna Volkstheater ensemble for ten years. During this time, Klaus Höring also made his film debut in a Lulu adaptation by Rolf Thiele. Shortly afterwards he entered radio plays with a role in “The Natural Daughter” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This was followed by engagements in Bern and Munich, but also a lot of work in front of the film camera, especially in adaptations of plays. Eventually Höring came to the Burgtheater in Vienna and also became a stage director there; For example, in 1982 he staged Peter Handke’s “Wishless Misfortune” with Hilde Krahl in the leading role and three years later “Antigone” based on Sophocles. Over the years he has always remained connected to radio plays and has appeared in over 50 new productions. His most recent appearance in a radio play was in the play “Waiting Room” by Daniel Wisser, which is also a candidate for this year’s “Ö1 Radio Play Audience Award”.
The “Ö1 Radio Play Gala”
On February 23rd, Klaus Höring will be honored as “Actor of the Year 2023” at the RadioKulturhaus, following previous winners such as Rudolf Wessely, Michou Friesz, Martin Schwab, Bibiana Zeller, Peter Simonischek, Peter Matic, Andrea Clausen, Erwin Steinhauer, Chris Pichler, Elisabeth Orth, Cornelius Obonya, Gerti Drassl, Joachim Bißmeier, Markus Hering, Petra Morzé, Markus Meyer, Karl Markovics, Vera Borek, Sylvie Rohrer, Johannes Silberschneider, Franz Schuh, Regina Fritsch and Brigitte Karner.
The “Ö1 Radio Play Gala” awards ceremony will be moderated by Doris Glaser and Andreas Jungwirth. The “Ö1 Radio Play Audience Prize” will be awarded this evening, the prize for the radio play with the best “Sound Design” and the prize for the “best original radio play”, with the literary and cultural critics from “Presse”, “Standard “, “Salzburger Nachrichten”, “Falter” and “Kleine Zeitung” will honor what they believe to be the most artistically appealing and sophisticated original radio play of 2023. Furthermore, the winners of the Ö1 short radio play competition “Track 5’”, which was announced in cooperation with the “schule für Poetry”, will be presented. The musical supporting program will be provided by the brass quintet of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna.
The “Ö1 Radio Play Gala” on Friday, February 23rd in Vienna’s ORF-RadioKulturhaus starts at 7 p.m. Admission is free, tickets are available at the RadioKulturhaus from 6 p.m. The gala will be broadcast live on Ö1 and in the video live stream from 7:05 p.m https://radiokulturhaus.orf.at/ transmitted. Further radio play information is available at https://oe1.orf.at/hoerspiel.
At the same time as the “Ö1 Radio Play Gala”, the 32nd “Ö1 Radio Play Night” will take place in the Literaturhaus Salzburg, with three productions on the program: “Waiting Room” by Daniel Wisser, “Gemeinsame Childhood” by Ernst Jandl & Friederike Mayröcker and “About Disappearance” by Horst Konietzny. The winners of the award for the “best original radio play” and the “Ö1 Radio Play Audience Award” will be announced simultaneously in Salzburg and Vienna.
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