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Loves acting, loves music - and especially loves that he can often combine the two on the theater stage: Moritz von Treuenfels, ensemble member of the Munich Residenztheater. © Sleep
Residenztheater actor Moritz von Treuenfels is once again playing the therapist in the ZDF series “The Anders Family”. A meeting with him in the theater in Munich.
He is the Toby Darling in “The Legacy”, arrogant and greedy for fame. He is the fairy tale writer Hans Christian in “Andersen's Tales”, awkward, fabulating, consumed by longing. He is Fabian Anders in the new episodes of “The Anders Family”, which will be shown on ZDF from April 7, 2024, 8:15 p.m., sensitive, good-natured, empathetic. No matter whether in the theater or film: you see a different Moritz von Treuenfels every time. Seal of quality: real acting.
Curious people then naturally ask themselves: What is this Moritz von Treuenfels like in real life? A meeting for discussion in the Munich Residenztheater. The 35-year-old has been playing here as a permanent member of the ensemble since the 2020/2021 season. His ideal: In the magical moment when the curtain is raised, the audience should not think: Ah, that's Moritz Treuenfels. “But they should think: Oh, Andersen, I have the feeling that I understand him. Or: Toby Darling, this egoist!” That’s what’s so irresistible about analogue acting. That you can go much further here than in most film and television productions. “I'm looking to form or find very different characters. I can understand that people go to a concert or the theater to see a certain person, but it's not mine at all. I think the world is becoming more and more about self-expression. But I don’t want to create a brand of myself, I want to keep challenging and surprising myself.”
Sensitive: In the ZDF series “The Anders Family” Moritz von Treuenfels plays the therapist to whom the Herzog couple comes – played by Ann-Kathrin Kramer and Harald Krassnitzer. © Steffen Junghans
In 2019 he found someone who felt the same way. At that time, Treuenfels was a member of the ensemble at the Theater Basel. And played for the first time in “Andersen's Tales” in Philipp Stölzl's production, which has also been running in Munich since November, selling out performance after performance and receiving standing ovations. Director magician Stölzl and acting enthusiast Treuenfels have worked together again and again since then. In the film adaptation of Stefan Zweig's “Schachnovelle”, in “Legacy” and this summer in Stölzl's “Freischütz” production at the Bregenz Festival. Treuenfels will lead the evening in the role of Samiel. As so often, acting and making music. Because he, who grew up as the third of five children in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, was always very musical. He has been playing the cello and piano since he was seven and has won several prizes, including the “Jugend musiziert” competition. And when you ask him, based on his role as a therapist in the ZDF series “Anders Family,” which therapy is better – music or acting – he blurts out: “For me, definitely
music
. Theater has nothing at all therapeutic for me.” Laughing: “On the contrary!”
Fairytale-like: Moritz von Treuenfels in “Andersen’s Tales” at the Munich Residenztheater. © SANDRA THEN
When he really digs into a role, it's sometimes more like confrontation therapy, he says with a smile. But music is his “refuge” to which he can retreat at any time. “Music gives you the opportunity to meet yourself. I often meet people who make me think: They're pushing so much away, there's so much that's pent up. By the way, that's one reason why I became an actor - because I think: It all has to come out." Also the big feelings. When others are afraid that something might seem cheesy, Treuenfels lets the emotions flow freely. And is happy to have creative sparring partners like Philipp Stölzl, who tick like him. “Philipp looks for and finds beauty even in certain abysses and sadnesses. He's a crazy workaholic and I love that too, getting into this work craze - that you keep looking and keep questioning things." And if you want to have an artificial moon floating over the lake stage in Bregenz that shimmers in the water , then they organize this moon. A giant moon. Round and big and not at all tacky. When Treuenfels talks about it, he beams with the most beautiful, childlike anticipation. “The stage design is going to be so great. This will be a huge spectacle! In front of 7,000 people every evening as the sun sets. Sometimes all you can do is be grateful.”