All the best │ with Ursula Strauss and the BartolomeyBittmann duo

The four-time ROMY award winner studied acting at the Vienna Volkstheater and went on to appear at numerous renowned theaters, such as the Theater in der Josefstadt, the Ensembletheater, the Drachengasse and the Vienna Volkstheater.

She has made many successful feature films since 2001. Her most important films are "Böse Zellen" (2003, directed by Barbara Albert), "Crash Test Dummies" (2005, directed by Jörg Kalt) and "Kotsch" (2006, directed by Helmut Köpping), "Fallen!" (2005, directed by Barbara Albert), which screened in competition in Venice in 2006, and "Revanche" (2008, directed by Götz Spielman), the latter of which was invited to the Berlinale in 2008 and was nominated for an Oscar abroad in 2009. "Maybe in Another Life" (2010, directed by Elisabeth Scharang). "Michael" (2010, director: Markus Schleinzer) screened in the Cannes Competition in 2011. "October, November", again with Götz Spielmann, was released in November 2013. In 2015, she shot "Mein Fleisch und Blut", directed by Michael Ramsauer, and "Maikäfer Flieg" (directed by M. Unger), which was also the opening film of the 2016 Diagonale.

Her big breakthrough on television came with the role of Inspector Angelika Schnell in "Schnell Ermittelt", the series that quickly became one of ORF's most successful series and also made Ursula Strauss an audience favorite.
In 2015/16 she shot season 5 of "Schnell Ermittelt", among others. This was followed by the character of Anna Sacher in the 2-part "Das Sacher" directed by Robert Dornhelm as an ORF/ZDF production and the mini-series "Pregau" directed by Nils Willbrandt, an ORF/ARD production. She shot the mini-series "Die Aufschneider" and "Altes Geld" with David Schalko, among others,
several TV films with the directors Wolfgang Murnberger, Andreas Prochaska, Nikolaus Leytner, Lars Becker and with Stefan Krohmer.

In 2008 and 2016 she was awarded Best Actress at the Diagonale.
In 2012 she received the Austrian Film Award for Best Actress.
Since 2012, Ursula Strauss has very successfully curated her own festival WACHAU in ECHTZEIT.

Matthias Bartolomey received his first cello lessons from his father, while Franz Bartolomey studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and at the Mozarteum Salzburg, where he has been teaching himself since 2020.

Since 2017, he has also been increasingly active as a composer with a focus on expanding the cello repertoire and the associated development of progressive playing techniques. In 2012 he founded the duo BartolomeyBittmann - progressive strings vienna with violinist and mandola player Klemens Bittmann.

As a soloist, Matthias Bartolomey has worked with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic, the Mozarteum University Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony in C Philadelphia and the Istanbul Devlent Senfoni Orkestarsi, among others. In 2014, he recorded the rarely performed cello sonata by Sir André Previn on CD with pianist Clemens Zeilinger. His regular chamber music partners include Benjamin Schmid, Helmut Deutsch, Clemens Zeilinger, Magda Amara, Matthias Schorn, Georg Breinschmid, Florian Willeitner and the Signum Saxophone Quartet. He has created literary-musical projects with Martina Gedeck, Isabel Karajan, Birgit Minichmayr, Ursula Strauss and Karl Markovics.

For the film 'Wir töten Stella' by Julian Pölsler, he played the Sarabande from Suite No. 6 for solo cello by J.S. Bach in 2017.
In the field of orchestral music, Matthias Bartolomey has played in the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Tonkünstlerorchester Niederösterreich, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He has been principal cellist with the Concentus Musicus Wien, founded by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, since 2010.
Matthias Bartolomey plays a violoncello by David Tecchler, Rome 1727.

Studied classical violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. He then studied jazz violin with Didier Lockwood in Paris.
In Austria he founded the formations Beefólk, Folksmilch, Radio String Quartet and the duo BartolomeyBittmann, in which he is active as a violinist, mandola player and composer. Klemens Bittmann is also active as a studio arranger and studio musician for string arrangements, as well as a workshop leader, and is a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.

Cooperation with:
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Alegre Correa, Gerald Preinfalk, Klaus Paier, Georg Gratzer, Alex Deutsch, Radio String Quartet, Ulfried Staber, Stefan Heckl, Helgi Jonsson, Christian Muthspiel, Wolfgang Temmel, Mercedes Echerer, Thomas Mauerhofer, Christian Bakanic, AnnaF, Ramona Gillard, Valerie Sajdik, Maria Bill, Ursula Strauss, Sandy Lopicic, Alexander Tschernek, Olivier Tambosi, Cornelius Obonya, Andrea Eckert, Erich Oskar Hütter, Paul Gulda, Christiane Boesiger and many more.many more

String arrangements for:
Radio String Quartet, Drew Sarich & Dead Poets String Quartet, Boy, Helgi Jonsson, Andreas Bourani, Conchita Wurst, Sarah Nardelli, AnnaF, Rita Chiarelli, Louie Austen, Sarah Grubinger, Broadlahn, Valerie Sajdik and many more.

Klemens Bittmann plays a violin by Josephus Pauli (Linz, 1817),
a mandola by Markus Kirchmayr (Natters in Tirol, 2004) and strings by Thomastik-Infeld Vienna.