The comedian, screenwriter and actor needs new challenge constantly. The Austrian-rounder talks about fault lines in the career, overwork on set and his movie role as Stefan Zweig. In his preparation has him an exhibition in Munich inspired
You know him as lightning clever comedians (verify on June 10 and 11 in the pilot), as fine screenwriter and black-humored protagonist (as in the Wolf Haas films). Josef Hader can and wants more: in 2017 his directorial debut “Wild Mouse” comes to the movies, and in these days is the Austrian, born in 1962, can be seen in an unusually serious role. In Maria Schrader’s biographical drama “Before the Dawn” is strife the aged writer Stefan Zweig
SZ:. This role was an enormous challenge. No fear of failure?
Josef Hader: one The older you get, the less afraid of it. Because is more important is that you still want to try some things. I look for roles like this that I have the feeling: There are in the figure what that also what makes it sound to me, and why I should play. I’m not the actor who can play anything. In the role, it was a certain fragility, a friendly fragility. I thought that was interesting.
How do you tie up this friendly brittleness Stefan Zweig?
I discovered this in the only film document by Stefan Zweig still there is. This is not important movie recording, but a private scene of a garden party at the Salzburg Festival. Stefan Zweig stands before a woman who has his book in his hand and excited persuades him. It is a silent film, you do not know what they are talking about. He just gets praise and is very sad and embarrassed because, travels over the hair and has something Verhuschtes. The opposite of a success author
. Stefan Zweig (Josef Hader) emigrated to Brazil in 1940. About Petrópolis the writer said: “I have seen a more pleasant place rarely.”
How did you prepare for the role?
I very reluctant at the beginning and have only researched times. I was lucky that I was in Munich, where it just was a Stefan-Zweig exhibition at the House of Literature. Since I could listen to a sound recording. He speaks as a language of the Viennese bourgeoisie, which I had from my grandparents’ generation of make summer guests who were with us on the farm still well in the ear. A poem he reads, is about the sculptor Rodin, and he speaks only a French word, namely Rodin. And that sounds like I’m talking about it now, so a very Viennese French. That made me ever calms language a bit.
Stefan Zweig is, like the film, hugely multilingual.
Exactly, the first thought was, that you will hardly manage to play someone who speaks so many languages
What fascinates you about Stefan Zweig most.? his work, his person
Most of all, it is his fate: that someone so alive in a new era, he is thrown out of two wars completely off track. This is a fate experience that is beyond our imagination. And then there was this picture of a very successful man who can but start anything with success. The one hand has self-confidence, while also a certain inferiority complex. He suffers so much from it that its literature is not so for full value is considered. Stefan Zweig has since a bit so felt like writers who are also in the presence of which it is said that they are read by women on the beach mostly. That was a bit since
This rare polarity are also likely to know.. To be challenging and at the same time to reach many people
Yes, this is perhaps the only area where you could say that I have perhaps sometimes a similar problem.
But you seem so well to cope.
well, I’m not cope well with what I’m doing.
what do you mean?
I have now for the first time made a film as a director, of the February comes, “Wild mouse” is the name. And it was a permanent overwork! But I wanted to have it. Because I felt on the other side, that I no longer get stuck right in my fields. This has not interested me really. I have no problem compared to what I’m doing. There were always break lines
An apparent contradiction is, for example, that your cabaret programs -. Play very long – with modifications. On the other hand you venture out again into unknown territory.
Many colleagues believe so, that I am mad lazy because I so seldom do programs. But I stop intervening again co-wrote screenplays, found at the Brenner screenplays for example, or other productions, certainly to some extent my share deeply appreciated indoors too little in the heart, and therefore was so beneficial for me, this step make and take responsibility for a film project on their own.
Heilsam could also be the story of Stefan Zweig. She is currently playing: The story of a refugee, from the search for a home. What can learn the current world politics we from that?
learning one can only do you have to prevent such things as they have caused the First and Second World War. And that is almost an even greater lesson for us as the refugee problem, which is we have so evidently. If you look at the social situation, how many people are poor, how much people are rich in our society, then we can as well draw parallels to 1914th Regarding the refugee issue, so I think that the possibilities were then much lower to begin such a big trip.
Stefan Zweig tries in exile rauszuhalten from politics, not to condemn. He speaks of “an island as an artist”. Share his view? As an artist on stage you
are with your attitude also in public. So as I understand it, he has, as long as he lived in Europe, but reluctantly but always of be persuaded to sign certain things and to take a position other. What he did not took place in another part of the world, where the opponents are not, so to speak since. He took the conviction: If you go on a stage and is acclaimed for a political conviction, then this confession is worthless. This is even more extreme in today’s confession culture – where you not only politically must confess everything, but all shall confess everything as someone who is in public life. I find this a very interesting position that I find very true.
How do you handle it? Bring your personal opinion like in public?
I take position, but not continuously, but in important ways. but I avoid also to speak in like-minded, and earning cheers. I have also never liked
Before the Dawn -. Stefan Zweig in America, director: Maria Schrader, running from Do. , June 2, in several cinemas in Munich; Hader plays Hader , Fri. and Sat. , 10 and 11 June, 20 h, technical, Grafingerstraße Str. 6
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