Aglaja Schmid

Aglaja Schmid (born August 9, 1926 in Scheibbs , Lower Austria , † December 16, 2003 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actress .

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The trainee at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna found her artistic home in the Austrian capital. Here she got her first engagement at the Theater in der Josefstadt in 1945 , where she stayed until 1954. Her roles included Carol in Die Zeit and the Conways and Helene Altenwyl in Der Schwierige .

From 1954 to 1956 she made a guest appearance in Berlin . During this period she played Helene Altenwyl again at the Freie Volksbühne , as well as Christine in Arthur Schnitzler's Liebelei and the title role in Goethe's Stella , at the Schlossparktheater Agnes in Molières The School of Women , Governess in Anouilh's The School of Fathers , Mademoiselle Supo in the German premiere by Anouihl's Ornifle or the angry sky and at the Schillertheater Elisabeth in Schiller's Don Carlos .

From 1956 to 1989 Schmid belonged to the ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater . Roles here were Olivia in What you want , Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing , Edrita in Woe to the Lies , the title role in Emilia Galotti and in Maria Stuart , Thekla in Wallenstein , Alkmene in Amphitryon , Genia Hofreiter in Das weite Land , Crescence in The Difficult and Mother in Tales from the Vienna Woods

At the Salzburg Festival she played Dona Angela in Calderón's Dame Kobold in 1960 , Gretchen in Faust I from 1961 to 1963 , Una Poenitentium / Gretchen in Faust II from 1963 to 1965 and Guten Werke in Jedermann from 1973 to 1977 .

At the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg she played again Helene Altenwyl and Stella in 1964, at the Schauspielhaus Zurich , she took over in 1964 the title role in Elektra by Jean Giraudoux . In 1996 she played "Arsenic and old lace" in the Mödling comedy series, directed by Felix Dvorak. In 2001, after a twelve-year break at the Theater in der Josefstadt, she was seen as Aunt Fini in Mihura's Katzenzungen .

On her rare trips to the dubbing studio, she lent her colleague Grace Kelly in The Swan and The Top Ten Thousand the German voice.

Schmid was married to the actor, director and theater director Rudolf Steinboeck . Her final resting place is at Neustifter Friedhof in the Wiener Neustift am Walde district .

↑ Helmut Dietl: A little something is always possible. Unfinished Memories , Ed. Tamara Dietl, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04980-0