Michael Smulik
- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
Michael Smulik was born in Port-Elizabeth, South-Africa. At the age of
21 he moved to Vienna to study drama at the Vienna Conservatory. Since
acquiring his diploma, he has worked extensively as an actor, musician,
writer and director in Austria and other European countries. In 2004
the production of George Tabori's "Mein Kampf", a political farce
highlighting Hitler's early years as a struggling painter in Vienna, in
which Michael portrayed Hitler, won the coveted Nestroy Prize (Austrian
National Theatre Prize) for best OFF production. He is a member of the
Improv Theater group "English Lovers", six times winners of the
Austrian Theatre Sport Championships. As a musician, he is a founding
member and guitarist/songwriter of the notorious SchlagerPunk band
"Christian & Michael und die emotionale Rock- & Showband", winners of
the Villacher Wort-Werk prize, "Die Lange Nacht der schlechten Texte".
In March 2013 "Ein kleiner Augenblick des Glücks" (A Brief Moment of
Joy),a film in which he played the lead, won the Achtung Berlin best
short film award. The film was also nominated for the the German Short
Film Prize. In November 2013 a further theatre project he starred in
"Habe die Ehre", by Syrian born Author Ibrahim Amir, was presented with
a Nestroy Prize for best OFF production.
