Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1930-11-17
Day of Death
2022-12-04
Place of Birth
Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Karl Merkatz
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 (51)
Little Big Voice
2015
Der Blunzenkönig
2015Franz Antel - Meister der Unterhaltung
2013
Move On
2012
Coming of Age
2011
Echte Wiener 2 - Die Deppat'n und die Gspritzt'n
2010Karl Merkatz - Vom Tischler zum echten Wiener
2010
Zapping-Alien@Mozart-Balls
2009
Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga
2008
The Secret of Loch Ness
2008
Da wo es noch Treue gibt
2007
König Ottokars Glück und Ende
2006
Frechheit siegt
2004
Der Bockerer IV - Prager Frühling
2003
