 After this education he was engaged at the "Landestheater" Linz, in Vienna, Klagenfurt and also in Frankfurt and from 1997 on at the ""Deutsches Schauspielhaus"" in Hamburg.He played in "The Cherry Orchard" ("Der Kirschgarten", Anton Chekhov), "Athena" ("Pallas Athene", Herbert Achternbusch), "Danton's Death" ("Dantons Tod", Igor Bauersimas) and also in William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night, or What You Will" ("Was ihr wollt").He got international popularity through his part as criminal detective Peter Höllerer in the Austrian-made (ORF) police television drama "Inspector Rex" ("Kommissar Rex"), where he was involved in 59 episodes.