Anna Kallina

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Anna Kallina (1925)
Anna Kallina's grave

Anna Kallina , also Anna Böhm or Anna Witrofsky (born March 31, 1874 in Vienna ; † January 4, 1948 in Vienna), was an Austrian child actress and actress .

Life

Working at the theater

The daughter of a princely official began her stage career at the age of two and a half in the 1870s with children's roles (for example as Walter Tell in Wilhelm Tell and as Karl in Götz von Berlichingen ) at the Burgtheater , of which she had been a regular member since 1888. She took on her first major role there on November 2, 1891 with Bertha in Die Ahnfrau . Her acting skills were praised by contemporary critics, she played “naturally, without any exaggeration, neither from the comic nor the tragic side”.

From then on Anna Kallina could be seen in both classical and modern pieces. Her most famous roles were Hanne Scheel in Fuhrmann Henschel , Frau Wolf in Der Biberpelz , Viola in Was ihr wollt , the Regentin in Egmont , Gertrude in Hamlet , Judith in Uriel Acosta , Juliet in Romeo and Juliet , and Calpurnia in Julius Caesar as well as the bride of Messina and Emilia Galotti in the plays of the same name. During her 50 years at the Burgtheater she played both classical and modern roles in almost all major productions until she retired in 1933.

Film work

Since her film debut as Armin Seydelmann's wife in the family and crime drama Adrian Vanderstraaten (1919) set in the Netherlands , Anna Kallina has also been seen for several years in leading and supporting supporting roles, mainly in the field of the noble grande dame , in Austrian silent film. Her best-known film roles include Queen Anna of England in the Victor Hugo adaptation The Grinning Face , Frau Wallner in the Viennese moral picture Die Familie ohne Moral and Princess Prachs-Lehndorff in her only purely German production, Spiel um den Mann .

With the dawn of the sound film age, the elderly artist, who had also given a princess in her speech debut “Leise flehen meine Lieder” by Willi Forst , hardly appeared in front of the camera.

Private

Kallina was first married to a Mr. Böhm and since 1906 to the one year older lawyer Egon Witrofsky. He outlived his wife by ten years. Both are buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 16E, row 10, number 1).

Honors

Filmography (selection)

  • 1919: Adrian Vanderstraaten
  • 1920: Through the quarters of misery and crime
  • 1921: The grinning face
  • 1921: The dead hand
  • 1922: Meriota, the dancer
  • 1922: Take care of your daughters
  • 1925: Post-war sharks
  • 1926: The Ballet Duke
  • 1926: His Highness the dancer
  • 1926: The family without morals
  • 1927: the right to live
  • 1928: The woman of yesterday and tomorrow
  • 1929: The man game
  • 1929: Archduke Otto and the laundress / Viennese heart
  • 1933: My songs quietly plead
  • 1935: Your Highness waltzes
  • 1935: Diary of the beloved
  • 1936: Where the lark sings

literature

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Remarks

  1. ↑ according to different sources, 1876 or 1879
  2. ↑ Eisenberg, p. 496
personal data
SURNAME Kallina, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boehm, Anna; Witrofsky, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian child actress and actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1948
Place of death Vienna