Movie Conchita Wurst wants to be a villain
Austrian singer Tom Neuwirth, alias Conchita Wurst, also wants to establish himself as an actor - and has a special wish: "I'd like to be really evil", said the 36-year-old in an interview with the German Press Agency.
09.06.2025, 06:30
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The human psyche is so fascinating, "in the whole spectrum from good to bad". He is interested in what leads people to do something. "I would also like to find that in myself, where I am the most problematic person and where I am the easiest person. I think that's the gift you get from acting," said Neuwirth.
As an actor, he has already appeared in the successful play "Luziwuzi" in Vienna and in the vampire film "Die Blutgräfin" alongside Isabelle Huppert. In "Luziwuzi", he plays the Austrian Archduke Ludwig Viktor, the youngest brother of Emperor Franz Josef.
Ludwig Viktor was considered a free spirit with "special inclinations", according to the Theater Rabenhof in Vienna. "He's not so dissimilar to me," says Neuwirth about Ludwig Viktor. "Maybe it's a good way to get started, to play a version of yourself first and then find out how far it can go." Neuwirth has not undergone classical acting training.
Blood for eternal youth
In the feature film "Die Blutgräfin", for which filming has been completed, he plays what he describes as a rather sober master of ceremonies who conducts a vampire ball. "And then I also play a half-man, half-woman singing character in a trio and once I play myself."
The film, directed by Ulrike Ottinger, is based on the legend of the Hungarian countess Erzsébet Báthory, who is said to have killed dozens of girls around the year 1600 in order to drink their blood and thus attain eternal youth.
Conchita Wurst, who won the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) for Austria in 2014, continues to sing. In Germany, the bearded diva will perform her program "From Vienna With Love" together with the Mecklenburg State Orchestra at the Schwerin open-air stage on 11 July.
