Eva Herzig has long been one of the most sought-after actresses in the country. At the age of 19 she was a permanent fixture at the Vienna Burgtheater, most recently a well-booked star in numerous television series. Corona has put the career of the vaccination refuser from Graz on hold: no job without a sting.
A meeting with Eva Herzig in the Grazer Schauspielhaus-Café: The actress, who fell ill with Covid-19 last November, shows her notice of recovery in order to be admitted. Other doors remain closed to the star of the series (“Steirerkrimi”, “Soko Donau”, “Lilly Schönauer”, “Das Glück der Erde”), this also applies to most film sets. Reason: The almost 50-year-old refuses the Corona Vaccination. “For me it’s about the freedom to make decisions about your own body. For me, this type of vaccination is out of the question.” However, most film producers only want to have vaccinated people on set. “Last autumn I played the leading role in Julian Pölsler’s Salzburg thriller ‘Last Boat Trip’,” says the native of Graz, who recently moved back to her hometown from Vienna and now lives on the Glacis Burgtheater engaged under the legendary director Claus Peymann and opposed his notorious “treatment methods”. “When I told him at the beginning of a season that I was going to quit, the lead roles were over.” “I’m used to having dry spells.” At the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, Herzig was still filming as an investigator in the “Styrian thriller”, also in “Jeanny – the 5th girl”, only recently seen in the main evening program, she was cast in the leading role, since at that time unvaccinated people were also being tested Set could work. With the required vaccination, the single mother of two boys, 13 and 9 years old, is now de facto unemployed. “I was lucky that I played a lot, but I’ve almost used up the money I earned.” However, the actress does not want to talk about a life crisis because she had to experience more threatening things in her life. “I’ve been through crises where you don’t know how to go on. I have always trusted that there is a way out for me and that I will be taken care of. My faith in life is unshakable and I’m used to dry spells.” Graz has also brought a new love Eva Herzig speaks of very stressful years at the end of her marriage, the death of her unborn child and the death of her ex-husband and father her sons in the summer of 2020. “In my worst times, I started meditating to help myself and not to despair and to calm down.” Herzig raves about her hometown of Graz (“good soil”), she also has found a new love “For the first time in my life I’m experiencing that I have a man who is there for me and also supports me financially. This is a completely new experience for me.” “I will object to a punishment” Other experiences, on the other hand, hurt when colleagues with whom she has hitherto gotten along well suddenly react maliciously to the woman who refuses to vaccinate. “I don’t want to be Joan of Arc for the unvaccinated,” says Herzig – even if she gives a popular voice to those opposed to vaccination at demonstrations. How does she deal with the mandatory vaccination that has come into force? “If I get a penalty, I will appeal, but I’m not sure if vaccination will go through. In my opinion, the Corona story will turn around by the summer. ”The actress is hoping for new role offers and a return to the film business. If not? “Then I’ll break new ground or work at cabaret artist Monika Gruber’s sausage stand,” laughs Eva Herzig, because “for me, life is the stage.”
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