Anneliese Egger

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Anneliese Egger , also Anneliese Romanelli-Egger , (born September 26, 1930 in Zurich ) is a Swiss actress .

Life

Childhood and youth

Anneliese Egger was born in Zurich. Her father, Hans Egger, was born in Bern and worked as an engineer at Escher Wyss AG . Her mother Irma Bayer came from Schaffhausen . She worked in the Grieder clothing store on Paradeplatz in Zurich. In 1932 they moved to Bern because their father got a job there. The Egger family lived on Zinggstrasse, which belongs to the Kirchenfeld district and is close to the Dählhölzli zoo . Egger attended primary school from 1936 to 1940, then later the girls' secondary school in Montbijou and the Laubegg secondary school.

Anneliese Egger practiced circus performances at home with her brother Kurt (* 1931) at an early age ; at school she loved the dramaturgy in reciting poems and ballads . Without her parents' knowledge, she appeared in the extras of the Bern City Theater at the age of 14 . The actor and director Fritz Kortner confirmed her decision to become an actress. At her father's request, Egger first completed a “proper training”. In 1950 she graduated from commercial school with a commercial diploma. She then worked as a secretary at a large insurance company in Bern.

education

Egger first attended private acting courses in evening classes with Margarethe Schell . She attended lectures in theater studies at the University of Bern . At the student stage in the basement theater in Bern, she played in many modern plays. She received her acting training in a three-year full-time course at the Conservatory of the City of Bern with Margarethe Schell; Egger financed the training through an office job in the Atelier-Theater Bern.

Film rolls

She met the director Franz Schnyder through a colleague at the Atelier-Theater, Linda Geiser . Schnyder engaged Egger for her first film role in the Swiss homeland film Uli der Knecht (1954). Egger played a jealous maid who fell into a manure hole. According to Egger, her role was first offered to Margrit Rainer , but Rainer did not want to accept the role of the dirty maid. Until 1961 Egger took part in several other films, mostly directed by Franz Schnyder. In Schnyder's film Die Käserei in der Vehfreude (1958) she played the role of Sophie. she embodied, at the side of Max Haufler , the wife of the enterprising Egli Hannes, the secretary of the municipal clerk. In the Swiss feature film Demokrat Läppli (1961) she played the role of Ms. Boller, the wife of the property speculator and mayor Boller. In Franz Schnyder's last film Die 6 Kummer-Buben , Egger stood in front of the camera again after several years of screen break for private reasons. She embodied Ms. Lüthi, the wife of the calculating and evil mayor Hannes Lüthi.

Theater and radio plays

In 1955 Anneliese Egger passed the Federal Acting Examination in Zurich with a diploma and distinction. After an audition (including the love scene from Heroes by Bernard Shaw ), she was hired by the then theater director Oskar Wältin in 1955 with a three-year contract at the Zurich theater. From 1955 to 1958 Egger was a permanent member of the Schauspielhaus Zürich. In the 1955/1956 season she played the postmaster in Goethe's tragedy Stella at the Schauspielhaus Zürich . With Fred Tanner (as Kraler) she played the role of Anne Frank's helper Miep Gies in a stage version of The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett in the 1956/1957 season . In the meantime she had guest engagements at the Stadttheater Basel and at the Stadttheater Heidelberg (season 1960/1961). Egger was unable to take on a subsequent engagement for 1962 in Berlin for private reasons, as her mother's health had deteriorated in Bern.

Egger also took part in radio plays , for example in 1961 at SDR Heidelberg in the radio play production of the play Jacobowsky and the Colonel by Franz Werfel ; her partners were Ernst Ginsberg , Alexander Kerst and Gustl Halenke .

Private

In 1962 Egger married the engineer Mario Romanelli, who was then working for the BBC ; her married name was henceforth Romanelli-Egger . A son, Marco, emerged from the marriage. Romanelli-Egger accompanied her husband during the commissioning and assembly of various buildings in Brazil , Mexico , Persia and Spain , where they often spent longer periods of time. In 1970 Anneliese Romanelli-Egger settled permanently in her own home in Würenlos , which she had bought together with her husband .

Directorial work

In 1980 Egger began working as a theater director with the Würenlos cultural area. Under the name Anneliese Romanelli she performed a total of six plays in the old church. She was requested by various organizers in the region and hired as a director, u. a. for theater performances in Würenlos, Windisch and Untersiggenthal . In courses and seminars, she passed on her experience as an actress to amateur actors .

Filmography

literature

  • A. Zihlmann: February 2014 edition, Würenloser Träff 55+ SRRB (Seniors' Council Region Baden)
  • P. Graf: issue 36, September 2014, Rundschau, issue south
  • B. Holthuizen: July 16, 1987, Badener Tagblatt

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The dairy in Vehfreude . Cast, still photos. Retrieved January 28, 2015
  2. ↑ Swiss film. Democrat Läppli . Plot, cast, production details. Official website of Swiss radio and television . Retrieved January 28, 2015
  3. ↑ The 6 cummerbubs . Cast, still photos. Retrieved January 28, 2015
  4. ↑ Egger, Anneliese (postmaster) photo. Online archive of the Zurich City Archives. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  5. ^ Franz Werfel: Jacobowsky and the colonel radio play. Fischer Theater Verlag. Retrieved January 28, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Egger, Anneliese
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romanelli-Egger, Anneliese (married name); Romanelli, Anneliese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland