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Fired castle actor Teichtmeister: Damage "will certainly be sued for"
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The criminal case against Florian Teichtmeister, 43, for possessing pornographic depictions of minors could also have serious financial consequences for the actor.
In addition to the criminal trial at the beginning of February, the artist is threatened with a lawsuit from the Burgtheater in Vienna, as the stage announced on Friday.
"The damage to the Burgtheater is immense," said commercial director Robert Beutler.
Teichtmeister also plays in the Sisi film »Corsage«, which is in the preselection for the foreign Oscar.
It will be announced on Tuesday whether "Corsage" will make it from the shortlist to the circle of Oscar-nominated films.
»Feminist film soiled and damaged«
The Burgtheater fired Teichtmeister last week after it became known that he had been accused of possessing tens of thousands of files containing pornographic depictions of young people and children.
His attorney said Teichtmeister will plead guilty in court and is cooperating with investigators.
After Teichtmeister's departure, four plays in which he played had to be recast or canceled.
"The damage in this regard cannot yet be quantified, but it will certainly have to be sued," said Beutler in a statement.
Teichtmeister plays Emperor Franz Joseph in »Corsage«.
According to the Austrian Association of the Film Industry, he should be separated as a person from the work of director Marie Kreutzer.
"I am sad and angry that a feminist film that more than 300 people from all over Europe have worked on for years is so sullied and damaged by one person's horrific actions," said Kreutzer.
Both sides emphasized that Teichtmeister had always credibly denied rumors about the allegations to the producers of the film and to the Burgtheater.
feb/dpa
