Herwig Seeböck

Biography

Herwig Seeböck was an Austrian actor, director, and cabaretist born on December 7, 1939, in Vienna. He initially studied painting at the Academy for Applied Arts before taking up acting to support his studies, later establishing his own theater company, Burgspiele am Leopoldsberg, in the early 1960s. A notorious incident involving an altercation with police left him with a prison sentence, which he served at age 25.