Nikolaus Paryla (born 19 November 1939, in Zurich) is an Austrian actor and stage director. Paryla studied acting at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. In 1961 he received his first engagement at the Wiener Volkstheater as Moritz Stiefel in

Frank Wedekind Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (July 24, 1864 – March 9, 1918) was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the de ...

's '' Spring Awakening'' (''Frühlings Erwachen''), directed by Gustav Manker, after which he was engaged until 1969 at the

Theater in der Josefstadt The Theater in der Josefstadt is a theater in Vienna in the eighth district of Josefstadt. It was founded in 1788 and is the oldest still performing theater in Vienna. It is often referred to colloquially as simply ''Die Josefstadt''. Following ...

. Between 1970 and 1971 Paryla belonged to the ensemble of the Berlin

Schiller Theater The Schiller Theater is a theatre building in Berlin, Germany. It is located in the central Charlottenburg district at Bismarckstraße 110, near Ernst-Reuter-Platz. Opened in 1907, the building served as a second venue for the Prussian State ...

, after which he stood until 1986 on the stage of the Munich

Residenz Theatre The Residence Theatre (in German: Residenztheater) or New Residence Theatre (Neues Residenztheater) of the Residence in Munich was built from 1950 to 1951 by Karl Hocheder. The renovation of 1981 by Alexander von Branca removed the decoration w ...

. In films he is known for roles in ' (1983) and '' Das Schloß'' (1997) . Paryla won the

Hersfeld-Preis The Hersfeld-Preis is an award for an actor. It has been awarded annually since 1962 as part of the Bad Hersfelder Festspiele of the ''Gesellschaft der Freunde der Stiftsruine'' and the city of Bad Hersfeld The festival and spa town of Bad Hersf ...

in 1980.

Selected filmography

* 1960: '' Das Zaubermännchen'' * 1979: ' * 1979: '' Der ganz normale Wahnsinn'' (TV series) * 1982: '' The Confessions of Felix Krull'' (TV miniseries) * 1983: ' * 1988: ' (TV miniseries) * 1988: '' Mit Leib und Seele'' (TV series) * 1995: '' Ant Street'' * 1995: ' * 1995: ' (TV film) * 1997: '' The Castle'' (TV film) * 1998: ' * 1999: '' Geliebte Gegner'' (TV film) * 2000: '' Polt muss weinen'' * 2001: '' Zwölfeläuten'' * 2001: ''

Tatort ''Tatort'' ("Crime scene") is a German language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with some 30 feature-length episodes per year, which makes it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed b ...

– '' (part of TV-series) * 2003: '' Pumuckl und sein Zirkusabenteuer'' (part of TV-series) * 2004: ''Schimanski: Das Geheimnis des Golem'' (part of TV-series) * 2005: '' Marias letzte Reise'' (TV film) * 2005: ' (TV film) * 2006: ' (TV film) * 2008: ''

– '' (part of TV-series) * 2009: ''

– Wir sind die Guten'' (part of TV-series) * 2010: '' Länger Leben'' * 2012: '

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Paryla, Nikolaus 20th-century Austrian male actors Austrian male stage actors Austrian male television actors 1939 births Living people Male actors from Zürich German Film Award winners