Annemarie Düringer

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Annemarie Düringer (born November 26, 1925 in Arlesheim , Canton Basel-Landschaft ; † November 26, 2014 in Baden , Lower Austria , Austria ) was a Swiss actress . As a long-time castle actress and holder of the Alma-Seidler-Ring , she was one of the most respected German-speaking theater actresses.

Life

Annemarie Düringer grew up as the daughter of the Swiss industrialist Heinrich Düringer and Marie Roider in Muri near Bern . After the completion of training at a Bernese business school she started in 1946 in Paris at the Cours Simon acting lessons, they long after 1947 two years at Vienna's Max Reinhardt Seminar continued.

Stage career

In 1949 she became a member of the Vienna Burgtheater , where she played until shortly before her death. She has made guest appearances at the Berlin Schillertheater (in Schiller's Räuber or in Molières Don Juan ), at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm (Lavinia in O'Neill's mourning has to carry Elektra ), at the Münchner Kammerspiele , at the Bavarian State Theater and also at the Salzburg Festival . Annemarie Düringer's repertoire was broad: she played in both classical and modern productions, she was on stage in pieces by Aeschylus , Gorki , Grillparzer , Hauptmann , Ibsen , Miller , Pinter , Shakespeare , Strindberg , Chekhov and Wedekind .

Annemarie Düringer was awarded the title of chamber actress in 1963 . She was on stage with most of the great actors of the 20th century, including Werner Krauss and Paula Wessely in her youth . At the end of 2000 she played the superstitious housekeeper Ms. Helseth in Ibsen's Rosmersholm at the Vienna Academy Theater , directed by Peter Zadeks . One of her best-known roles was Mrs. Zittel in Thomas Bernhard's Heldenplatz , directed by Claus Peymann .

Film career

In 1953 she stood in front of the camera for the first time. Director Ernst Marischka brought her to the film Feldherrenhügel , in which she played alongside Heinz Conrad . Other film roles followed later, e.g. B. in You are the world for me (1953), in Prisoners of Love (1954), in The City is Full of Secrets (1954), in Eternal Waltz (1954), A Man Forgets Love (1955), The 20. July (1955) or in Oberwachtmeister Borck (1955). In 1956, she played Inken Peters at the side of Hans Albers in the film adaptation of the play Before Sunset by Gerhart Hauptmann . In 1957, she appeared in the thriller Night when the Devil Came alongside Mario Adorf and Claus Holm . In 1958 she was awarded the Federal Film Prize at the Berlinale for her performance . In 1961 she played alongside Heinz Rühmann in the comedy The Liar .

Her career is also characterized by international film successes: Victor Vicas cast her in his spy drama Count Five and Die (1958) and in SOS - Glacier Pilot (1959). The Swiss director Franz Schnyder gave her in 1958 the role of Annie in the Gotthelf film version the cheese factory in the hamlet and later the role of Sophie in his two-parter about Gotthelf Anne Bäbi Jowäger ( 1960 / 62 ). After 1962 she was rarely seen on screen: in 1970 she played Mrs. Jenny in Kurt Frühs Dällebach Kari , in 1976 Mrs. Müller in Schatten der Engel by Daniel Schmid , in 1978 she appeared in the short film Bourbon Street Blues by Douglas Sirk and in 1982 she played the Dr. Marianne Katz in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss .

Occasionally she also played in television films, for example in the television version of Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), in the Tatort episode Mord auf Raten (1980), in Das Gläserne Wappen (1983) or Die Gunst der Sterne (1988) and in Dieter Wedel's multi-part series The great Bellheim (1993). In the Sissi film portrait Like a Black Seagull (1998) she acted as Archduchess Sophie.

In 2002 Düringer appeared again in a small film role in Gebürtig , the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Robert Schindel . In 2006 she played the painter's mother at the side of John Malkovich in the biopic Klimt by Raúl Ruiz . In the same year she was seen in the Swiss movie Die Herbstzeitlosen in the role of Frieda Eggenschwyler. In 2013 she played the lead role in Lovely Louise , directed by Bettina Oberli.

In 2004 Düringer took over the patronage of the European Shakespeare Days in Murau , known under the festival title Shakespeare in Styria . She also performed readings in Murau and remained the festival's patroness until her death. Düringer died in November 2014 on her 89th birthday in Baden, Austria.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burg-Doyenne Düringer died . In: ORF . November 26, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Düringer, Annemarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actress, castle actress and holder of the Alma-Seidler-Ring
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Arlesheim , Canton of Basel-Country
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2014
Place of death Baden , Lower Austria , Austria