Jens Harzer is the successor of Bruno Ganz as the bearer of the Iffland-ring. The Iffland-Ring is to choose the “most important and most worthy of the” German-speaking theatre artists. The Harz is since 2009 a permanent member of the ensemble at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. the

The new bearer of the Iffland-ring is a German actor Jens Harzer. The Austrian cultural competent Chancellery Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) announced on Friday. In February that died on a Swiss actor Bruno Ganz had his colleagues last will and Testament as his successor.

the Harz was an actor, the most remarkable due to its multi-faceted Create said Blümel. The 47-Year-old, is since 2009 a permanent member of the ensemble at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, and in Austria, at the Salzburg festival in 2018 on the stage.

The Iffland-Ring, a diamond-finger-ring of iron, the “most important and most worthy of the” German-speaking theatre artists. On the piece of jewelry in the likeness of the actor and theatre Director August Wilhelm Iffland (1759-1814) emblazoned on the the to empires legends goes back to the history of the ring. The award is traditionally given only to men. This fact was recently criticized in the magazine Theater. The price should also be opened for women, urged the editorial.

had that was killing in February of a cancer disease, received the Ring once by the Austrian actor, Josef Meinrad. He should first have his nearly of the same age stage colleagues, Gert Voss as a successor, had already been in Meinrads death as a candidate to be traded. Voss died in 2014.