Karl Markovics is an Austrian

Austrians

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 actor and film director.

He starred as Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky

Stefan Ruzowitzky

Stefan Ruzowitzky is an Academy Award-winning Austrian film director and screenwriter.-Early life:Ruzowitzky was born in Vienna...

's 2007 film The Counterfeiters

The Counterfeiters (film)

The Counterfeiters is a 2007 Austrian-German film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by the Nazis during the Second World War to destabilize Great Britain by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England bank notes.The film centres on a...

, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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 for that year. Prior to that, his most notable appearances have been in the highly-acclaimed Austrian (Viennese) black comedy

Black comedy

A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor; and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes...

 Komm, süßer Tod

Komm, süßer Tod (film)

Komm, süßer Tod is a 2000 Austrian darkly humorous crime film based on the novel by Wolf Haas of the same name. It is one of the Brenner detective stories, which tell of the luckless life of ex-policeman and unsuccessful private investigator Simon Brenner, who tramps throughout Austria and...

(2001), his role as far-right terrorist Franz Fuchs

Franz Fuchs

Franz Fuchs was a xenophobic Austrian terrorist. Between 1993 and 1997 he killed four people and injured 15, some of them seriously, using three improvised explosive devices and five waves of 25 mailbombs in total.Fuchs' mailbomb campaigns and his personality features are according to criminal...

 in the 2007 TV movie Franz Fuchs - Ein Patriot, and in the police drama television series Inspector Rex. His character from Inspector Rex had his own spin-off series, Stockinger

Stockinger

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Markovics remains a frequent stage actor, and in April 2010 played the non-singing role of Samiel in Counterfeiters-director Ruzowitzky's first opera production, Der Freischütz

Der Freischütz

Der Freischütz is an opera in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind. It premiered on 18 June 1821 at the Schauspielhaus Berlin...

at Vienna's Theater an der Wien

Theater an der Wien

The Theater an der Wien is a historic theatre on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district of Vienna. Completed in 1801, it has seen the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music...

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He directed and wrote Atmen in 2011.

External links

• Movie Guide and Film Series. New York Times, March 21, 2008. Accessed January 4, 2011.
• Die Fälscher (videorecording) = The counterfeiters. Dayton Metro Library. Accessed January 4, 2011. Karl Markovics alias "Samiel" zu Gast bei LUDWIG REITER. Theater an der Wien
  Theater an der Wien
  The Theater an der Wien is a historic theatre on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district of Vienna. Completed in 1801, it has seen the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music...
  
  . Accessed January 4, 2011.