Teresa Weißbach to Play Irmi Polter in Chemnitz Production of Der Vogelhändler

Overview

• Weißbach will appear on the Chemnitz operetta stage as the lively assistant director Irmi Polter in the upcoming production of Der Vogelhändler.
• She told dpa that theatre attracts her because of its live energy, the need to stay alert to fellow actors and audience reactions, and the scope for onstage improvisation.
• Her visibility on television comes from a role as a forester in ZDF’s Erzgebirgskrimi, a show that reaches a large, million-plus audience and keeps her in the public eye.
• Weißbach has performed onstage since childhood, took her first film role at 17 in Leander Haußmann’s Sonnenallee, and has worked at theatres in Vienna, Rostock, Nuremberg and at the Nibelungen-Festspiele.
• Though she lives in Berlin, Weißbach’s roots in the Erzgebirge remain central to her career choices and personal life, a factor that makes her Chemnitz engagement meaningful and that may draw local interest to the production.