Major Roles
- Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter: literally, A Genuine Viennese Does Not Go Under: In this show, which is about the life of a Viennese working-class family, he played Edmund "Mundl" Sackbauer, for which he is most known.
- Der Bockerer I-IV:, Merkatz plays the role of the Viennese butcher Karl Bockerer, who as a social democrat is shown during the time of the Anschluss and in the struggle against national socialism, during the post-war occupation of Austria by allied forces, during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Prague Spring of 1968.
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