What are you currently working on?
I’m currently shooting with the incredible Silvio Soldini in the Vinschgau Valley and in Belgium for his new film The Tasters.
What was your most recent project?
The international, multilingual premiere DIBBUK – zwischen (zwei) Welten by the KULA Compagnie at the Ruhrfestspiele theatre festival in Recklinghausen. In this project, actors from seven countries (including Israel, Afghanistan, Algeria, Russia, Germany, and France) try to keep engaging with each other instead of staying silent in front of war, as a mark of respect for the pain of others.
Which of your projects to date are you particularly proud of?
Wolfgang Moser’s film Michael Gaismair, in which I was given the chance to play the main role. I felt very close to this historical figure and observed that I had much in common with him – from his fears and doubts about the world to his ultimately overriding optimism and idealism.
Who would you love to work/shoot with?
Numerous directors who want to tell authentic stories about complex characters, ideally in an unconventional way, with a feminist perspective, and with humor – such as Greta Gerwig, Maren Ade, Hans-Christian Schmid, Hermine Huntgeburth, Katja von Garnier and Wes Anderson.
A film/series must definitely be made about...
Eva schläft, a novel by Francesca Melandri, would make a fantastic series about South Tyrol. I also love reading novels by Haruki Murakami and always think to myself that they would work well as a surreal, fantasy mystery series. Like The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, for instance.
The South Tyrolean film scene is...
... full of talents and professionals, in development with enormous potential.
Your dream location is...
... treeless, vast, and wild, a mix between the Mongolian grasslands and Patagonian glaciers.
What’s your guilty pleasure?
... watching romantic Christmas comedies every year. I’m a self-confessed Christmas fanatic. By the way, there are only 26 Mondays until Christmas.
An overrated classic is...
Saving Private Ryan. To me, it’s an overly simplistic display of patriotism and a vain celebration of violence rather than a classic anti-war film. The Thin Red Line by Terrence Malick is much more impressive.
What film shaped your childhood?
Anything starring Terence Hill. Back to Die Nibelungen from the 1960s. My great-grandmother used to tell me about the epic story of the Nibelungen and Terence Hill became an iconic hero in my eyes. Standing with him in front of the camera decades later was a particularly emotional moment for me.
Is there a scene that takes your breath away each time you watch it?
When the planet in Melancholia looms large over the horizon.
Which film/series has the best soundtrack?
True Detective: Night Country.
Actor Peter Schorn initially studied psychology before taking his first steps into the world of theatre and dance theatre and completing his training with the likes of Richard Pinter (Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre New York) and Felix Rellstab (CH). Today, he acts in front of the camera and on the stage, appearing in international cinema productions and German, Austrian, and Italian TV series, including as the lead role in Michael Gaismair, for which he won multiple awards, Mordkommission Königswinkel (ARD), Rosenheim-Cops (ZDF) and his own short film Connecting (acting/script) as well as in theatre productions in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol, most recently at the transcontinental Writers’ Room in Underground Birds (KULA Cie./VBB/Hålogaland Teater Tromsø). He also works as a narrator and writer of screenplays, theatre scripts and satire scripts.
“I strongly believe that our work as performing artists gives us social responsibility and is politically relevant. I always strive to take part in projects that work towards improving gender, social, economic, environmental and climate equality.”