Karl Merkatz

Born: 1930-11-17, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

Died: 2022-12-04

Biography

Karl Merkatz (17 November 1930 – 4 December 2022) was an Austrian actor. Merkatz was born on 17 November 1930 in Wiener Neustadt, the son of a toolmaker. He first wanted to become a carpenter. After World War II he was an active Boy Scout in Wiener Neustadt. However, later he started to enroll in acting lessons in Salzburg, Vienna and Zurich. Then he found employment in theatres, most notably in Munich, Salzburg, Hamburg and Vienna. During his later career he starred in several roles in television and motion pictures. In the role of Edmund Sackbauer (Mundl) in the 1970s, he became famous as the typical Viennese. Another big success came with the films "Bockerer" starring as a naive Viennese during the Second World War in Vienna (the later films are set in the subsequent years to 1945). From 1999, Merkatz was chairman of the human rights group SOS Mitmensch. Merkatz died in Straßwalchen on 4 December 2022, at the age of 92. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Filmography

• Ein Fall für zwei (1981)
• Schlosshotel Orth (1996)
• Der Bulle von Tölz (1996)
• Stockinger (1996)
• Irgendwie und Sowieso (1986)
• Der Bockerer IV - Prager Frühling (2003)
• Lenz oder die Freiheit (1986)
• Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter (1975)
• Totstellen (1975)
• Das Wunder von Loch Ness (2008)
• Der Bockerer (1981)
• Der Joker (1987)
• Der Unfisch (1997)
• Mundl - Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter (1994)
• Ene mene muh – und tot bist du (2001)
• Echte Wiener 2 - Die Deppat'n und die Gspritzt'n (2010)
• Feuer! (1979)
• Jakob der Letzte (1976)
• Der Bockerer III - Die Brücke von Andau (2000)
• Der junge Freud (1976)
• Kleine große Stimme (2015)
• Der Rausschmeisser (1989)
• Frechheit siegt (2004)
• Das ewige Lied (1997)
• König Ottokars Glück und Ende (2006)
• Der lebende Leichnam (1981)
• Am anderen Ende der Brücke (2002)
• Junger Frühling (1986)
• Ein Hund kam in die Küche (2002)
• Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga (2008)