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Alice Lach (born November 28, 1893 in Vienna , † December 29, 1969 in Zurich ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

Lach was a great-granddaughter of the painter Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller . She completed an acting training at the Vienna Burgtheater . She made her debut as an actress at the Neue Wiener Bühne . She then worked at various stages in Vienna, including the Deutsches Volkstheater and the Raimund Theater . Engagements at the Kammerspiele in Vienna followed , and later in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Paris. As a young actress, she first distinguished herself in important roles of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg , and later she took on character and mother roles. In the 1929/30 season she was engaged at the New Theater in Frankfurt am Main, after which she appeared at the Viennese cabaret and cabaret stage Der liebe Augustin .

She wrote the screenplay for the musical artist feature film Immortal Melodies (Austria, 1935) about the life of the "Waltz King" Johann Strauss' son (with Alfred Jerger as Johann Strauss, Leo Slezak as publisher Haslinger and Maria Paudler as Marie Geistinger ).

After the so-called " Anschluss of Austria ", Lach emigrated to France; she played at the end of December 1938 in the Parisian "Salle d'Iéna" in Ödön von Horváth's play Faith Love Hope . From 1938 she worked in Zurich. From 1938 to 1969 she appeared, mostly in smaller roles, at the Schauspielhaus Zürich , a. a. In 1946 as Gabrielle in the German-language premiere of Jean Giraudoux 's play Die Irre von Chaillot , directed by Leonard Steckel . She also appeared at the Bernhard Theater in Zurich, from 1951 at the Theater am Central, the later Zürcher Kammerspiele, at the Comedy Basel (1955 as Lina Beermann in Moral by Ludwig Thoma ), and on tours.

After the end of the Second World War , it went to the Chur City Theater at the beginning of the 1945/46 season . There she also appeared in 1946 as Gabrielle in The Mad of Chaillot . In 1947 and 1948 she played "des Schuldknechts Weib" at the Salzburg Festival in Hofmannsthal's Jedermann in a production by Helene Thimig .

Lach was married to the actor Eugen Jensen (1871–1957). After the death of her husband, Alice Lach increasingly went on guest tours; she stepped u. a. in Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt / M., Hamburg and Vienna.

Lach became known to German audiences, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, as an actress of quirky women. As housekeeper Martha in the TV series Förster Horn (1966), she celebrated a success at the age of 73. In addition to her work as a character actress, Alice Lach also worked as a lecturer in acting at the Zurich stage studio together with Hella Moja from the late 1950s.

Her urn is buried next to her husband in the Simmering fire hall (Section 1, Ring 3, Gr. 8, No. 81) in Vienna.

Alice Lach's grave site

Filmography (selection)

  • 1958: Locked Rooms (TV film; Switzerland)
  • 1960: The Dear Family (TV film; Austria)
  • 1961: Company Suggestion Box (TV series)
  • 1961: The Inner Voices (TV movie)
  • 1961: The Defense Attorney (TV movie)
  • 1961: Christmas on the market square (TV movie)
  • 1962: Blood Wedding (TV movie)
  • 1962: ... and forever the robbers pop (movie)
  • 1965: Thick Fog (TV movie)
  • 1965: Commissioner Freytag (TV series)
  • 1965: Tatort (TV movie)
  • 1966: Förster Horn (TV series)
  • 1968: Room 13 (TV series)
  • 1969: The Legacy (TV movie)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Alice Lach ; Biography in: Handbuch des deutschsprachigen Exiltheater 1933–1945 (KGSaur Verlag, 1999); online at Förster Horn . Steffi-line.de. Retrieved September 14, 2015
  2. ↑ Lach, Alice In: Lexikon der Frau. Volume 2, Encyclios, Zurich 1954.
personal data
SURNAME Laugh, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1969
Place of death Zurich