Jens Harzer

Born in Wiesbaden, he was trained as an actor at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich.{{cite news |date=22 March 2019 |title=Iffland-Ring für Jens Harzer – Bruno Ganz war sein Idol |url=https://www.zeit.de/news/2019-03/22/iffland-ring-fuer-jens-harzer-bruno-ganz-war-sein-idol-190322-99-497791 |work=Die Zeit |location=Hamburg |language=de |access-date=24 March 2019}} From 1993 to 2009 he was a member of the ensemble of Dieter Dorn, first at the Munich Kammerspiele and then at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel.{{cite web |title=Darstellende Kunst – Mitglieder: Jens Harzer |url=https://www.adk.de/de/akademie/sektionen/darstellende-kunst/mitglieder.htm?we_objectID=55235 |work=Akademie der Künste |location=Berlin |language=de |access-date=24 March 2019}} He played the title roles of {{ill|Roberto Zucco (play)|lt=Roberto Zucco|fr|Roberto Zucco}} by Bernard-Marie Koltès, staged by {{ill|Christian Stückl|de}}, Goethe's Urfaust and Torquato Tasso, Kleist's {{ill|Amphitryon (Kleist)|de|lt=Amphitryon}} and Büchner's Woyzeck, staged by Martin Kušej. Harzer has been a member of the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg since 2009.{{cite news |last=Kern |first=Ingolf |date=11 January 2008 |title=Jens Harzer sucht eine neue Heimat |url=https://www.welt.de/kultur/theater/article1539958/Jens-Harzer-sucht-eine-neue-Heimat.html |work=Die Welt |location=Berlin |language=de |access-date=17 June 2019}}

Since 2000, Harzer has been a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival. Again in a production staged by Stückl, he played the role of Death in Hofmannsthal's Jedermann. In 2008 there, Harzer played the leading role in a staged version of Dostoevsky's Verbrechen und Strafe, staged by Andrea Breth. In 2011, he played the role of Ich in the world premiere of Peter Handke's Immer noch Sturm at the Festival.Wie soll man denn das bitte spielen? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 14 August 2011, p. 23.

Harzer has appeared in 15 films since 1995. At the 56th Berlin International Film Festival in 2006, he performed in two films, Requiem by Hans-Christian Schmid and, in the title role, the drama Der Lebensversicherer by Bülent Akıncı. He won the Silver George for Best Actor at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival for the latter film.{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2006 |title=28th Moscow International Film Festival (2006) |access-date=22 April 2013 |publisher=MIFF|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421051006/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2006 |archive-date=21 April 2013 }}

Harzer was named by Bruno Ganz to be his successor as bearer of the Republic of Austria's Iffland-Ring, traditionally bestowed upon the "most significant and most worthy actor of the German-speaking theatre" in the opinion of the previous bearer.{{cite news |date=22 March 2019 |title=Iffland-Ring geht an Jens Harzer |url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/iffland-ring-jens-harzer-bruno-ganz-1.4379062 |work=Süddeutsche Zeitung |location=Munich |language=de |access-date=24 March 2019}}{{cite news |last=Affenzeller |first=Margarete |date=22 March 2019 |title=Deutscher Schauspieler Jens Harzer erhält den Iffland-Ring |url=https://derstandard.at/2000100026383/Deutscher-Schauspieler-Jens-Harzer-erhaelt-den-Iffland-Ring |work=Der Standard |location=Vienna |language=de |access-date=24 March 2019}}{{cite news |last=Strauß |first=Simon |date=22 March 2019 |title=Jens Harzer bekommt den Iffland-Ring |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buehne-und-konzert/schauspieler-jens-harzer-bekommt-den-iffland-ring-16102717.html |work=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |location=Frankfurt |language=de |access-date=24 March 2019}}{{cite news |last=Dürr |first=Anke |date=24 March 2019 |title=Er zerrt an den Worten, dehnt, singt und zelebriert sie |url=http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/iffland-ring-fuer-schauspieler-jens-harzer-portraet-des-thalia-stars-a-1259343.html |work=Der Spiegel |location=Hamburg |language=de |access-date=24 March 2019}} Harzer was awarded the ring in a ceremony at the Burgtheater in June 2019, four months after Ganz's death.{{cite news |last=Petsch |first=Barbara |date=17 June 2019 |title=Iffland-Ring: "Ein begnadeter Schauspieler ist etwas Gewaltiges" |url=https://diepresse.com/home/kultur/news/5645489/IfflandRing_Ein-begnadeter-Schauspieler-ist-etwas-Gewaltiges |work=Die Presse |location=Vienna |language=de |access-date=17 June 2019}}{{cite news |last=Hilpold |first=Stephan |date=16 June 2019 |title=Iffland-Ring an Jens Harzer: Der Würdigste der Begnadeten |url=https://derstandard.at/2000104957616/Iffland-Ring-an-Jens-Harzer-Der-Wuerdigste-der-Begnadeten |work=Der Standard |location=Vienna |language=de |access-date=17 June 2019}}{{cite news |last=Rogers |first=Thomas |date=12 June 2019 |title=Is This Ring an Honor, or a Curse? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/theater/iffland-ring-jens-harzer.html |work=The New York Times |location=New York City |access-date=17 June 2019}}

Harzer has received several awards, including:

• 1996: Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis in the category Performing Art
• 1996: Berliner Kunstpreis of the Akademie der Künste (Förderpreis)
• 2003: {{ill|Kurt-Meisel-Preis|de}} for excellent acting, by the association Verein der Freunde des Bayrischen Staatsschauspiels
• 2006: Silver George of the Moscow International Film Festival as Best actor for Der Lebensversicherer
• 2008: {{ill|Actor of the Year|de|Schauspieler des Jahres}}, critics' selection by Theater heute, for Onkel Wanja
• 2011: Actor of the year, for Don Carlos
• 2015: {{ill|Theaterpreis Hamburg – Rolf Mares|de}} for the role Friedrich Wetter Graf vom Strahl in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn at the Thalia Theater
• 2017: {{ill|Hessischer Fernsehpreis|de}} for Tatort Amour Fou
• 2019: Iffland-Ring{{cite news |last=Lottmann |first=Joachim |date=16 June 2019 |title=Und dann rollt der unschätzbar wertvolle Iffland-Ring über das Parkett |url=https://www.welt.de/kultur/buehne-konzert/article195365051/Verleihung-des-Iffland-Rings-in-Wien-Jens-Harzer-laesst-Kronjuwel-fallen.html |work=Die Welt |location=Berlin |language=de |access-date=17 June 2019}}

• 2005 Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste{{cite web |date=2018 |title=Ordentliche Mitglieder |url=https://www.badsk.de/bayerische-akademie-der-schönen-künste/mitglieder |work=www.badsk.de |location=München |publisher=Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste |access-date=25 March 2019}}
• 2012 Member of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg{{cite web |title=Mitglieder |url=https://www.akademie-der-kuenste.de/mitglied.html |work=Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg |location=Hamburg |access-date=24 March 2019}}
• 2013 Member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin

Films with Harzer have included:

• Hades (1995)
• Der Lebensversicherer (2006)
• Requiem (2006)
• Same Same But Different (2009)
• Boy 7 (2015)
• The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016)
• Long Live Death (Tatort: Es lebe der Tod) (2016)
• Babylon Berlin (2017)

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