Philipp Hochmair (born 16 October 1973) is an Austrian actor who works in theater, film and television. He grew up in Vienna and trained at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris. Hochmair has performed on stages in Vienna, Hamburg, Berlin, Hannover and Zürich, and has appeared in German-language films and television series, including several international productions.
Stage career
From 2003 to 2009 Hochmair was engaged at the Burgtheater in Vienna. He then worked at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg until 2016, with further engagements at other German and Swiss theaters. Since 2024 he has played the title role in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival, directed by Robert Carsen. He has also performed solo works based on texts by Goethe and Franz Kafka, and a rock-style version of Jedermann with his band.
Screen work
Hochmair has appeared in Austrian and German films, television films and series. He played Professor Otto Prokop in the third season of the Netflix production Charité and Reinhard Heydrich in the docudrama Die Wannseekonferenz, which depicts the 1942 meeting that organized the Holocaust. He also starred in the series Blind ermittelt as a blind former police investigator, and in the Netflix series Freud.