Christian Higer

* 1966 in Salzburg; actor; he trained as an actor at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien with Elfriede Ott. Permanent engagements took him to the Landestheater Schwaben in Memmingen, the Landestheater Linz (1994–2001), the Stadttheater Konstanz and the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. For his solo programme of Nestroy’s “Häuptling Abendwind oder das gräuliche Festmahl”, in which he played all the roles, he received the award for best actor at the Bayerische Theatertage in 2006. After years as a freelance actor, including at the Salzburger Festspiele, and an engagement at the Saarländisches Staatstheater, he returned to the Landestheater Linz in 2017; in 2022 and 2025 he was nominated for the Nestroy-Theaterpreis. On the album Urs Faes: Als hätte die Stille Türen (2006) he reads the unabridged novel with Michael Rotschopf and Mirjam Wiesemann.