Philipp Hochmair


Philipp Hochmair is an Austrian theater, film and television actor.
WWW philipphochmair.com

Early life

Hochmair grew up in Vienna where he discovered his passion for literature, film and theater. He studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna in the master class of Klaus Maria Brandauer and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris.

Career

Theater

From 2003 to 2009 Hochmair was engaged at the Viennese Burgtheater. When he left the Burgtheater in 2009, he worked at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg until 2016. Apart from this, he had engagements at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Staatstheater Hannover, Volksbühne Berlin and at the Zürich Schauspielhaus.
Since summer 2024, Hochmair took on the role of “Everyman“ in the play of a rich man´s death by Hugo von Hofmannstahl, at the Salzburg Festival under the direction of Robert Carsen.

Movies and TV

He has appeared in Austrian and German movies, TV-films and television series, including Die Manns – ein Jahrhundertroman, The Shine of the Day, Die Auslöschung, Tomcat and Animals .
Candelaria - Ein kubanischer Sommer is one of his first international productions. Directed by Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza, it was shot in Cuba in 2016.
In the series Vorstadtweiber, he plays a corrupt and cynical homosexual politician, who loses his mind and becomes a murderer.
In the third season of Charité, Hochmair stars as Professor Otto Prokop, an Austrian forensic pathologist who was internationally recognized for his influence on forensic medicine and research policy during the German Democratic Republic era.
Blind ermittelt centers on Hochmair's character Alexander Haller, a blind ex-police investigator.
In the Netflix-Series Freud, he plays an evil count obsessed by dark powers.
Die Wannseekonferenz is a multi-award winning German TV docudrama: On January 20, 1942, leading representatives of the Nazi regime meet at Wannsee in Berlin at the invitation of Reinhard Heydrich. The meeting will go down in history as the infamous Wannsee Conference. The sole topic of discussion is the so-called "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" by the National Socialists: the organization of the systematic mass murder of the Jews of Europe by the millions.

Other projects

Hochmair has performed his solo projects Werther!, The Trial and America,.
Jedermann Reloaded is Hochmair's rock interpretation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's original play Jedermann, which he performs with his band Die Elektrohand Gottes on stage. With his band, he has also set ballads by Friedrich Schiller to music in a rock style and in The Bachelors by Adalbert Stifter.
In November 2018, Hochmair and his band performed Jedermann Reloaded at the Viennese St. Stephen's Cathedral. All proceeds of this sold-out charity event went to a South African AIDS hospice.

Theater (selection)

Burgtheater Vienna
Deutsches Theater Berlin
Schauspielhaus Zürich
  • 2003: The Son by Jon Fosse – Son; directed by Elias Perrig
Staatstheater Hannover
Thalia Theater Hamburg
Hamburger Kammerspiele
 Salzburg Festival
Independent productions'

Selected filmography

Film

Television

Documentary

  • 2020: Philipp Hochmair - Eine Reise mit Jedermann by Bernadette Schugg, Philipp Hochmair
  • 2021: Jedermann und ich by Katharina Pethke
  • 2021: Jedermann auf Reisen by Wolfgang Tonninger
  • 2023: Jedermann und Ich - Ein Porträt in 3 Kapiteln by Philipp Hochmair and Katharina Pethke
  • 2024: Philipp Hochmair: Zwischen Himmel und Hölle by Hannes Michael Schalle

Literature

  • Katharina von der Leyen, Philipp Hochmair: Hochmair, wo bist du?. Biograph. Brandstätter Verlag 2025

Awards and nominations

In 2017, Hochmair won the Diagonale Festival Award in Graz for his performance in Tomcat.
In 2019, he won the Austrian Television Award ROMY for his role Alexander Haller, the blind ex-commissioner in Blind ermittelt.
In 2022, he won the Austrian Television Award ROMY for his role Reinhard Heydrich in The Conference.
In 2022, he was nominated in the category Best Actor for the German Television Award for The Conference.
In 2023, he won the Grimme-Preis for The Conference.
In 2024 he won the Retrospective and Honorary Award at the Film Festival Kitzbühel.
In 2024 he won the Cross Over Award at the Austrian Music Theater Award.
In 2025, he won the Austrian Television Award ROMY for Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival.