Waldmeister
Music Theatre
25. Apr - 28. Apr 2025
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Erwin Windegger was born in Merano. In addition to the title roles in “Sweeney Todd” and “The King and I”, his musical repertoire includes roles such as Cervantes/Don Quixote (“The Man of La Mancha”), Zaza/Albin (“La Cage aux Folles”), Javert (“Les Misérables”), Petrucchio (“Kiss me, Kate”), Frank N. Furter (“The Rocky Horror Show”), Pilatus (“Jesus Christ Superstar”), Perón (“Evita”), Ullerin (in the Bavarian folk opera “Der Goggolori”) and the Narrator in “Blutsbrüder” and “Into the Woods”. He has also appeared in “Sunset Boulevard”, “Chess”, “Wake Up”, “Guys and Dolls”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Men”, “Singin' in the Rain” and “West Side Story”, among others.
His acting credits include the title roles in “Jedermann” and “Der Zerrissene”, Uncle and Personnel Manager in Kafka's “Amerika”, Count Almaviva in Turrini's “Der tollste Tag”, Tiger Brown in “Die Dreigroschenoper”, Gajev in “Der Kirschgarten” and Mr. Hannay in “Die 39 Stufen”.
He staged the musicals “Evita” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” for the Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen at the Bolzano Municipal Theater and was engaged by ZDF for the TV series “Ein Fall für zwei”.
As a freelance artist, he has toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland and has performed at the Deutsches Theater in Munich, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Musical Dome in Cologne and the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. He has made guest appearances at the Graz Opera, in Vienna at the Volksoper, the Raimund Theater, the Ronacher, the Akzent and the Metropol, at the Hanover State Opera, the Kassel State Theater, the Klagenfurt, Augsburg and Bolzano municipal theaters, the Baden stage and at the Bad Hersfeld, Feuchtwangen and Stockerau Summer Plays.
At the Gärtnerplatztheater, he has appeared as Elisha Whitney (“Anything Goes”), Cervantes/Don Quixote (“The Man of La Mancha”), Baron Bomburst (“Tschitti Tschitti Bäng Bäng”), Prince Sergius Vladimir (“The Circus Princess”), Pontius Pilate (“Jesus Christ Superstar”), Bassa Selim (“Die Entführung aus dem Serail”), Azolan (“Gefährliche Liebschaften”), R. F. Simpson (“Singinʼ in the Rain”), Fredrik Egerman (“The Smile of a Summer Night”), John Cunlight (“Viktoria and her Hussar”), Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum (“The Threepenny Opera”), Polizeikonzipist (“Liliom”), Duke Ottokar von Grevlingen (“The Carnival Fairy”), Baron Mirko Zeta (“The Merry Widow”), Wilhelm Giesecke (“Im weißen Rössl”), Bernadette Bardot (“Priscilla - Queen of the Desert”), Colonel Pickering (“My Fair Lady”), Eduard Tobler (“Three Men in the Snow”), Evangelist in the German-language premiere of Monty Python's “The Life of Brian” and Antonio Salieri (“Mozart Must Die”). He has been a permanent member of the ensemble since the 2016/2017 season. In 2022, he was appointed “Bayerischer Kammerschauspieler” by the Free State of Bavaria.
Erwin Windegger was born in Merano. In addition to the title roles in “Sweeney Todd” and “The King and I”, his musical repertoire includes roles such as Cervantes/Don Quixote (“The Man of La Mancha”), Zaza/Albin (“La Cage aux Folles”), Javert (“Les Misérables”), Petrucchio (“Kiss me, Kate”), Frank N. Furter (“The Rocky Horror Show”), Pilatus (“Jesus Christ Superstar”), Perón (“Evita”), Ullerin (in the Bavarian folk opera “Der Goggolori”) and the Narrator in “Blutsbrüder” and “Into the Woods”. He has also appeared in “Sunset Boulevard”, “Chess”, “Wake Up”, “Guys and Dolls”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Men”, “Singin' in the Rain” and “West Side Story”, among others.
His acting credits include the title roles in “Jedermann” and “Der Zerrissene”, Uncle and Personnel Manager in Kafka's “Amerika”, Count Almaviva in Turrini's “Der tollste Tag”, Tiger Brown in “Die Dreigroschenoper”, Gajev in “Der Kirschgarten” and Mr. Hannay in “Die 39 Stufen”.
He staged the musicals “Evita” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” for the Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen at the Bolzano Municipal Theater and was engaged by ZDF for the TV series “Ein Fall für zwei”.
As a freelance artist, he has toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland and has performed at the Deutsches Theater in Munich, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Musical Dome in Cologne and the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. He has made guest appearances at the Graz Opera, in Vienna at the Volksoper, the Raimund Theater, the Ronacher, the Akzent and the Metropol, at the Hanover State Opera, the Kassel State Theater, the Klagenfurt, Augsburg and Bolzano municipal theaters, the Baden stage and at the Bad Hersfeld, Feuchtwangen and Stockerau Summer Plays.
At the Gärtnerplatztheater, he has appeared as Elisha Whitney (“Anything Goes”), Cervantes/Don Quixote (“The Man of La Mancha”), Baron Bomburst (“Tschitti Tschitti Bäng Bäng”), Prince Sergius Vladimir (“The Circus Princess”), Pontius Pilate (“Jesus Christ Superstar”), Bassa Selim (“Die Entführung aus dem Serail”), Azolan (“Gefährliche Liebschaften”), R. F. Simpson (“Singinʼ in the Rain”), Fredrik Egerman (“The Smile of a Summer Night”), John Cunlight (“Viktoria and her Hussar”), Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum (“The Threepenny Opera”), Polizeikonzipist (“Liliom”), Duke Ottokar von Grevlingen (“The Carnival Fairy”), Baron Mirko Zeta (“The Merry Widow”), Wilhelm Giesecke (“Im weißen Rössl”), Bernadette Bardot (“Priscilla - Queen of the Desert”), Colonel Pickering (“My Fair Lady”), Eduard Tobler (“Three Men in the Snow”), Evangelist in the German-language premiere of Monty Python's “The Life of Brian” and Antonio Salieri (“Mozart Must Die”). He has been a permanent member of the ensemble since the 2016/2017 season. In 2022, he was appointed “Bayerischer Kammerschauspieler” by the Free State of Bavaria.
