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Judith Keller was an ensemble member at the Volkstheater Wien for ten years and at the Tiroler Landestheater for 13 years. She also worked as an actress and director at the Stadttheater Basel, Bern, the Schauspielhaus Salzburg, the Salzburg Festival, the Tiroler Volksschauspielen, the Stadttheater Bruneck, the Merano Festival, the Tiroler Dramatists Festival, the Steudltenn Festival, the Waldviertler Hoftheater and the Munich Volkstheater, to name just a few.
She played many leading roles and in recent years has been seen as Edith Piaf, Mother Courage, Queen Elisabeth, Clytemnestra, Irina Arkadina, Dorine and Puck. She has also toured with many solo programs (melodramas "Hurrah, the dead ride fast", Brecht songs: "from Berlin to Hollywood", "when I burn in hell", Piaf songs "la vie en rose" up to tango ballads and tango shows. She has also been engaged for international concert and music theater performances as a singer, speaker and violinist, including as Lady Macbeth (mezzo) in the new opera "Cadence Macbeth" by Norbert Zehm, as a singing actress in Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schoenberg and in "Encore" by Jürg Wyttenbach.
In television and film roles she has played Angie (HR) in "The Better One Wins", in the television film "Lina" as a deaconess or most recently as Margit (HR) in the feature film "Present of the Past - Inside a Family " (2023) by Immanuel Degn, (location: Hollywood/LA, shooting language English). She can sing and play the violin very well and enjoys sailing.

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Actor53-63 yearsSwiss
Place of residence Vienna (AT)
Genderfemale
Year of birth1961 (62 years)
Place of birthBasel
Housing optionsVictoria (MT), Munich (DE), Innsbruck (AT), Basel (CH), Zürich (CH), London (GB), Paris (FR), Berlin (DE)
AssociationsVerband österreichischer Filmschauspieler
SpecializationsSinger, Speaker, Theater
Driver's licensesB - Car
Other licensesSport boat driving licence within, Sports high seas ships certificate under sail, SRC - Short Range Certificate (Funklizenz)
Eye colorgreen brown
Hair colorbrown
Height (cm)159
Staturenormal, slim
LanguagesGerman(native-language)EnglishFrenchItalianSpanish
DialectsBasel German(native dialect)NordenTyroleanVienneseVorarlbergerisch
InstrumentsViolinPianoViola
SportSailingSwimmingskiingScuba divingTennisAlpine skiing
DanceArgentine tangoGreek folk dancesTap danceBalletJazz danceModern dance
PitchAlto, Mezzo-soprano
SingingChansonClassicMusicalOpera
Training
Primary professional training
Other professional training
1988 – 1989
Filmseminare
1983 – 1985
École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq [fr]
1980 – 1984
Musik-Akademie Basel
Awards
2007
Theater-Alpenrose der Saison beste Darstellerin 2007
2006
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Wien
Film
2023
Present of the past/Inside a family picture
Present of the past/Inside a family (Cinema film)
Margit (MR)
Immanuel Degn Immigration Pictures e.U. [at]
2017
Present of the past (Cinema film)
Margit (MR)
Immanuel Degn Immigration Pictures e.U. [at]
2011
Tiefland (Cinema film)
Berta Ida Riefenstahl (SR)
Calvin Glober Tiefland Filmteam [at]
2009
Avalon (Short film)
Mutter (MR)
Laila Reischer Uniting Frontiers Productions
1992
Halbe Welt (Cinema film)
Rowdie (SR)
Florian Flicker Allegro
Television
2016
Lina (TV movie)
Diakonissin (SR)
Michael 'Mike' Schaerer C-Films AG [ch] SRF [ch]
1994
Der Bessere gewinnt picture
Der Bessere gewinnt (TV movie)
Angie (MR)
Kurt Ockermüller Allegro FilmproduktionsgesmbH [at] ORF [at], WDR [de]
1993
Geschichten aus Österreich - 2 Violinen (Series)
Sekretärin (SR)
Herbert Grunsky ORF Satel
Theater
2024 – 2025
Brot picture
Brot (Drama)
Judith Keller Meraner Festspiele Luis Zagler
2020
Federleicht picture
Federleicht (Drama)
Monika (MR)
Judith Keller Tiroler Dramatiker:innen Festival Hin & Weg Festival in Litschau Judith M. Keller
2020
Isolation picture
Isolation (Drama)
Monolog
Steudltenn Theaterfestival Sophie Reyer
2006 – 2010
Edith Piaf picture
Edith Piaf (Drama)
Main role
Klaus Rohrmoser Tiroler Landestheater Schauspiel mit Musik von Paul Gems
2004 – 2005
Nicht Fisch nicht Fleisch picture
Nicht Fisch nicht Fleisch (Drama)
Helga (MR)
Ruth Drexel Münchner Volkstheater GmbH
1989 – 1998
(Drama)
Volkstheater Wien Emmy Werner
1990
Libussa picture
Libussa (Drama)
Dobromila (SR)
K.Josef Schildknecht Volkstheater Wien Franz Grillparzer
1989
Brooklyn Memoiren picture
Brooklyn Memoiren (Drama)
Laurie (MR)
Karlheinz Hackl Volkstheater Wien Neil Simon
1980
Jedermann (Drama)
Tischgesellschaft (SR)
Helmut Förnbacher Die Helmut Förnbacher Theater Company
Other
2023
Paloma oder das Ende der Welt picture
Paloma oder das Ende der Welt
Judith Keller Judith M. Keller