English translation of the article
Artist with depth
Embodying passion belongs to the native Tyrolean Tobias Moretti. With strong will and talent he has managed the feat of becoming
equally popular to the television audiences as well as to the hard-to-satisfy theater- and cinema- goers; temperamental and with
exceptional unusual delicacy he scores in German, and internationally as an actor and as a man . On stage, in film or television ,
standing one's ground is for the 50-year-old Tobias Moretti daily bread. He was already noticed at school in a theater group, in
Innsbruck.
Between music and drama studies, he worked as a truck driver, and has proved his bravery as a mountaineer or motor sports freak.
Music is also a part of himself, and he has played many heroic roles. At first on stage, today in all media sectors, with classic
characters like ?Faust?, ?Jedermann" and "Casanova" or as a national hero by the likes of Andreas Hofer and Archduke John up to
the illusion of Adolf Hitler. Moretti says: ?If I am interested in a role, then I take up the role correctly, with skin and hair.
I love to play such [hard] scenes, because they are important?. 'He is never indifferent to the roles and the world, instead he
takes sides. In 2007, he refused to play Hitler again.
He also criticizes the language, for it is "leveled out into a unit measure of a strange German language. You notice that even
here in Vienna, how the dialects are becoming blurred : For a long time he has no longer taken the Austrian politics seriously,
"Here, reigns the slow satisfaction of an operetta? and he judges severely the states of the world when he speaks of a ?terrible
contradiction "between consumerism and drained marginal companies?, of a " gap that has something eerily fascistic?. He avoids
consistently speaking about family life; his wife Julia is a musician, they have two children, Antonia and Lenz -. it is not necessary
to know more. The retreat to the Tyrolean mountain farm in the summer, which he himself manages, gives him joy and provides the
distance from the hustle and bustle. In Tuscany, he grows his own wine, and a lecture as a guest on chamois in the Vienna Natural
Resources shows another hobby: animals which he breeds.
Success is nothing he has ever designed, he absorbs himself with full intensity in his roles, his work is a matter of the heart,
and even if he gets criticism instead of the usual praise, Moretti's fighting spirit is really piqued. Can he get hurt? "My God,
everyone is vulnerable, ` But "criticism is one of the most important things, the basic engine, as it were, for an artist. !
Nothing ventured nothing gained?. He does not believe that you feel absolutely free to others :" One gets freedom at the expense of others "!
As befits his profession, he reads at Christmas for his club friends to the homeless of Vinzi house in Vienna. He knows when it comes
to issues about tomorrow. The last movie filmed in April is called "Bauernopfer", in which Moretti as Andi, an organic farmer, is in
conflict with a pharmaceutical multinational. But his future lies for him in acting: directing and playing. It goes on increasingly
passionately throughout his life.
Heinrich Marchefli-Venier