Minetti. From 2005, he played in a Burgtheater production of 's Der Anatom at the Anatomischer Saal der Bildenden Künste, the play's only role. He appeared at the Salzburg Festival in the speaking role Samiel in Weber's opera Der Freischütz in 2005, staged by Falk Richter. The major role of Fürst Bolkonskyi in a dramatization at the Burgtheater of Tolstoy's novel Krieg und Frieden won him a nomination for the Nestroy Prize in the category "best leading role" in 2010. In 2011, Kirchner played there Pozzo in Warten auf Godot, staged by . In the years 2012 to 2014, he worked there with René Pollesch, Frank Castorf, and and pursued other series of readings, from 2010 Fernando Pessoa's Buch der Unruhe and Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften. Kirchner died on 26 September 2018 after a long illness. Filmography 1977: (directed by Wolf Gremm) – Pfleger 1989: Hanna Monster, Liebling (directed by Christian Berger) – Rudolf 1995: Jailbirds (directed by Detlev Buck) – Mohrmann 1999: Sonnenallee (directed by Leander Haußmann) – Onkel Heinz 1999: Klemperer – Ein Leben in Deutschland (TV Series) 2000: Zimmer mit Frühstück (TV Movie, directed by Michael Verhoeven – Rudolf 2005: NVA (directed by Leander Haußmann) – Futterknecht 2005: (TV Movie, directed by Leander Haußmann) – Herr Miller 2007: (TV Movie, directed by Hermine Huntgeburth) – Lehrer Mohren 2009: (directed by Leander Haußmann) – Victor Semlitsch (final film role) Awards 1991 – For Jago in Othello: of Vienna 1992 – Actor Duo of the Year (with Gert Voss) for Tabori's Die Goldberg-Variationen 1998 – Actor Duo of the Year (with Gert Voss) for Beckett's Endspiel 2001 – Nomination for Nestroy Prize for best supporting role 2004 – Silver 2008 – 2010 – Nomination for Nestroy Prize for best leading role Literature References External links Schauspieler Ignaz Kirchner gestorben / Immer an der Grenze zur Verrücktheit nachtkritik.de 27 September 2018 German male stage actors German male film actors 1946 births 2018 deaths Actors from Wuppertal German expatriates in Austria