Harald Krassnitzer

Austrian actor (born 1960)

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Harald Krassnitzer (born 10 September 1960, in Grödig, Austria) is an Austrian actor.

Life

Krassnitzer grew up in Grödig, in the Flachgau district in Salzburg state, Austria. His father was a locksmith, while his mother worked in a candy factory. After graduating from the HTL in Eisenstadt, he was trained as a forwarding agent.

Krassnitzer was trained as an actor at the Elisabethbühne in Salzburg, where he was employed for four years upon the completion of his studies. After that, he played at the Schauspielhaus Graz in Graz, the Wiener Volkstheater in Vienna and the Saarland State Theatre in Saarbrücken.

Since 1995, Krassnitzer has acted mainly in television series (Der Bergdoktor, Der Winzerkönig, Tatort). He has been playing the role of the investigator Moritz Eisner in the Tatort series for the ORF since 1999, partly alone, and partly with changing colleagues. Since his 24th case, he has now working with Bibi Fellner, played by Adele Neuhauser.

He appeared as a co-moderator alongside Peter Rapp at the Licht ins Dunkel Gala in 1998. In the summer 1999, Krassnitzer presented the film series Wunderland as a personal love letter to Austria, in which he presented his favorite music and his favorite places.

Krassnitzer is committed to Hilfswerk Austria. He is co-owner of the company Blinklicht, a production company for mobile TV, which he founded in Vienna with two childhood friends.

Since 7 July 2009, he has been married to German actress Ann-Kathrin Kramer, with whom he previously was romantically involved for more than nine years. He currently lives in Wuppertal and has a second home in the Tirol region (Mieming).

Harald Krassnitzer is a social democrat and regularly supports the Social Democratic Party of Austria.

Works

Theatre

Prince in Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund by Witold Gombrowicz, 1987
Jojo in Das Gauklermärchen by Michael Ende, 1987, Elisabethbühne
title role in Peer Gynt by Ibsen
title role in König Johann by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Hamlet in Hamlet by Heiner Müller
Oedipus in Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus by Sophokles
Xerxes in Die Perser by Volker Braun after Aeschylus
Karl Moor in Die Räuber by Schiller
Faust in Faust I and Faust II by Goethe
Primislaus in Libussa by Grillparzer
Truffaldino in Diener zweier Herren by Carlo Goldoni
Fernando in Stella by Goethe

Filmography (selection)

1996: Der Pakt – Wenn Kinder töten
1997: Stockinger – Spuren in den Tod
1997: Der Bergdoktor (TV series)
1998: Hurenmord – Ein Priester schweigt
1999: Rosamunde Pilcher – Der lange Weg zum Glück
1999/2000: Kanadische Träume – Eine Familie wandert aus (TV miniseries)
- Episodes: 1. Der Aufbruch, 2. Das neue Leben, 3. Umwege der Liebe
Since 1999: Tatort (TV series), as Moritz Eisner
2001: Hochzeit zu viert
2002: The Sisters' House
2003: Ausgeliefert
2003: Amundsen the Penguin
2003: MA 2412 – Die Staatsdiener
2003: Aus Liebe zu Tom
2003: Gefährliche Gefühle
2003: Das Traumschiff – Sambia und die Viktoriafälle
2004: Der Ferienarzt… auf Korfu
2004: Blood of the Templars
2004: Weißblaue Wintergeschichten
2004: Stauffenberg
2005: Im Reich der Reblaus
2005: Full Throttle
2005: Margarete Steiff
2005–2009: Der Winzerkönig (TV series)
2008: Live Wire
2008: Marie Brand und der Charme des Bösen
2009: Mein Mann, seine Geliebte und ich (TV film)
2009: Das Traumschiff – Papua Neuguinea
2010: Greed
2011: The Girl at the Bottom of the Sea
2011: Am Kreuzweg
2011: Aschenputtel
2012: Der Wettbewerb
2012: Never Trust Your Wife
2013: Paul Kemp – Alles kein Problem (TV series, 13 episodes)
2014: Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight (TV film)
2014: The Lies You Sleep With (TV film)
2014: Fluss des Lebens – Wiedersehen an der Donau (TV film)
2014: Katie Fforde: Geschenkte Jahre (TV film)
2015: Meine fremde Frau
2016: Die Kunst des Krieges
2025: How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World