Mavie Hörbiger

Life and work

Hörbiger descends from a famous Austrian family of actors and actresses, all at least for some times members of Austria's National Theatre, the Burgtheater. Her grandfather was Paul Hörbiger, his brother Attila Hörbiger was married to Paula Wessely. Actresses Elisabeth Orth, Christiane Hörbiger and Maresa Hörbiger are her aunts, comedians Cornelius Obonya and Christian Tramitz are cousins. She holds both German and Austrian citizenship.

Hörbiger did not complete college but visited the acting school of Christa Willschrei in Munich. In 1996, she made her on-camera debut in Michael Gutmann's television feature "Nur für eine Nacht".

Mavie had theatre engagements in Hanover and Bochum (Rachel in Sanft und grausam, 2006; Jeannie in Fettes Schwein, 2005; title role in Lulu, 2004; Gilda in Komödie der Verführung, 2002; Santuzza in Freunde II, 2001). From 2006 to 2008 she performs at the Theater Basel, her first role there being "Roxane" in the play Cyrano de Bergerac, followed by "Stella" in A Streetcar Named Desire. Since 2009, she performs regularly at Vienna's Burgtheater. In 2007, she debuted at the prestigious Salzburg Festival, as Hermia in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2013 she returned to Salzburg in a leading role in Nestroy's Lumpazivagabundus, directed by the director of the Burgtheater, Matthias Hartmann. In 2015, Hörbiger claimed two major successes at the Burgtheater, first in Tolstoj's The Power of Darkness, then as Ismene in Antigone by Sophocles.

She worked as an interviewer for VIVA and recorded several audiobooks.

In 2004, she ranked third in the voting for the 100 Sexiest Women In The World held by the German edition of FHM magazine, just behind Britney Spears and Heidi Klum. Mavie has ranked in the top 100 five times (in 2002, 2004, 2005. 2006 and 2008) and is widely considered to be one of the most attractive German women. She has turned down offers to pose nude for the German edition of Playboy magazine.

In December 2006 she married the German Burgtheater actor Michael Maertens. On 26 April 2009 the couple welcomed their first child, a daughter; a son was born in July 2012. The family lives in Switzerland and Austria.

1996

Director: Michael Gutmann

1998

Director: Marc Rothemund Cast: Cosma Shiva Hagen, Gudrun Landgrebe

Cast: Götz George, Corinna Harfouch, Barbara Rudnik, Nikolaus Paryla, Katharina Thalbach

1999

2000

Cast: Pierre Besson, Anke Engelke

Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Corinna Harfouch

2001

Cast: Jasmin Tabatabai, Benno Fürmann

Cast: Corinna Harfouch, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Michael Degen, Ulrich Noethen, Hans Werner Meyer, Hans-Peter Korff, Fritz Wepper

Cast: Hannelore Hoger, Jürgen Schornagel, August Zirner

Director: Simon Verhoeven Cast: Ken Duken, Max von Thun, Luca Verhoeven

Cast: Max Tidof

2002

Cast: Meret Becker, Giora Seeliger, Jasmin Tabatabai

Cast: Roman Knizka, Horst Krause, Peter Sattmann, Julia Richter, Leslie Malton

Cast: Steffen Wink, Udo Kier, Burt Reynolds, Xavier Naidoo, Axel Schulz

Director: Erhard Riedlsperger Cast: August Schmölzer, Dominic Raacke

2003

Cast: Christian Clavier, John Malkovich, Isabella Rossellini, Gérard Depardieu, Heino Ferch, Alexandra Maria Lara, Sebastian Koch, Marie Bäumer

Cast: Dietmar Mössmer

Cast: Dougray Scott, Jürgen Prochnow, Miguel Herz-Kestranek

Cast: Mina Tander, Antonio Wannek, Navíd Akhavan

2004

Cast: Cosma Shiva Hagen, Nina Hagen, Helge Schneider, Christian Tramitz, Otto Waalkes

Cast: Maria Furtwängler, Hannes Jaenicke, Jan Gregor Kremp, Ute Willing

Cast: Benno Fürmann, Kristanna Loken, Alicia Witt

Cast: Robert Hunger-Bühler, Michael Brandner, Martina Gedeck

2005

Cast: Marek Harloff, Arno Frisch

Cast: Sky du Mont, Andrea Sawatzki

2006

Cast: Barbara Rudnik, Karoline Eichhorn, Stefan Kurt

Cast: Anna Thalbach, Boris Aljinovic

Cast: Herbert Knaup, Julia Stemberger

Cast: Anatole Taubmann, Eva Dewaele

2007

2011

2001

2002

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

Awards