Barbara Gallauner

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Barbara Gallauner (born September 26, 1912 in Vienna ; † 2011 in Munich ) was an Austrian actress , cabaret artist and speaker.

Life

Family and first engagements

Gallauner was in Alsergrund , the IX. District of Vienna, born into a family of actors. Her parents were Viennese folk singers and actors. Gallauner was already on the stage as a child. She played children's theater and was cast with children's roles on larger Viennese stages. At the age of 15 she founded a ladies band with whom she performed in the Simmeringer Bräuhaus. Gallauner wanted to become an actress, but was not accepted at drama school.

She began her career as a theater actress, without any actual acting training, at various provincial theaters in the German Empire . She had theater engagements at the City Theater Meran , at the City Theater Ingolstadt , at the Theater Greifswald and at the Municipal Theater Kolberg . Gallauner was mainly used in the roles of “youthful naive” and “youthful sentimental”. During the Second World War, from 1941 to 1944, Gallauner and her husband, the actor Hugo Gottschlich , were engaged at the Deutsches Theater in German-occupied Metz .

After the end of the Second World War , Gallauner came to Munich , where she settled permanently. Since the late 1940s she has been involved in many programs of the cabaret Der Bunte Würfel in Munich, where she also interpreted chansons that were written for her by Fred Rauch . She also appeared as a folk singer, including songs based on poems by the Munich writer Wilhelm Albert Liebl .

Theater career in Munich

In the course of her career, Gallauner played on numerous Munich theaters. In June 1949 she worked in the Theater am Brunnenhof, the alternative quarter of the destroyed Munich Residenztheater , on the occasion of the 85th birthday of the composer Richard Strauss in a festival performance of the play Der Bürger als Edelmann in the role of the maid Nicole. In December 1949 she appeared there in the role of the young relatives Kathi in the farce Der Zerrissene . In January 1951, on the occasion of the reopening of the New Residenztheater, she worked as a chambermaid Rosa in the posse Der Verschwender .

From the beginning of the 1950s to the end of the 1970s she appeared regularly at the Münchner Kammerspiele . Her roles there included the chambermaid Franziska in Minna von Barnhelm , the Austrian speaking actress Alice Rütterbusch in Die Ratten (1952/53 season), Karoline in Kasimir and Karoline (1952/53 season), Die Crescencia in the Comedy postseason by Herbert Asmodi (season 1960/61, director: August Everding ), Lucie Schmerschneider in Affaire Blum (season 1960/61, director: August Everding), the provost in Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti (season 1964/65, director : August Everding), the landlady Frau Ringswandel in Landshut stories by Martin Sperr (season 1967/68, director: August Everding), the abbess Veronika von der Recke in Die Anababäufer by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1967/68), Frau Sedlacek in Change von Wolfgang Bauer (1970/71 season, directed by August Everding), the Baroness in Tales from the Vienna Woods (1972), Daja in Nathan the Way (1973, directed by Hans Schweikart , with Peter Lühr as Nathan), Mrs. Hassenreuter i n Die Ratten (1972/73 season, directed by August Everding) and Sophie von Rappelkopf in Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind (1976/77 season).

At the Bavarian State Theater she also appeared several times, as melancholy in the Magic game The confuse magician (Premiere: April 1954 Residenz Theater in Munich, with Bruno Hübner as Schmafu and Heltau as Amoroso), as Vipria in the Magic game The tethered imagination of Ferdinand Raimund (Premiere: December 1954, Residenztheater Munich), as Marthe in the magic game The Alpine King and the Misanthrope (Premiere: January 1962, Residenztheater Munich) and Ánna Andréjewna Skwosník-Dmuchanówskaja in Der Revisor (Premiere: February 1978, Residenztheater Munich). In 1956/57 she played the role of Dortchen Lakenreißer in the historical drama Heinrich IV by William Shakespeare at the Residenztheater in Munich, alongside Klaus Kinski .

She also appeared on the Kleine Komödie , including in the 1955/56 season, alongside Karl Ludwig Diehl and Alice Treff in the comedy Der Bestseller by Basil Thomas .

Movie and TV

Gallauner has worked in numerous feature films , television films and television series since the late 1940s . In 1949 she made her feature film debut in Josef von Báky's adaptation of Brandner Kaspar (based on Joseph Maria Lutz ). It was followed by appearances in numerous other films, often in home movies , comedies and comedies with Upper Bavarian or Austrian background. Gallauner was often used in comical roles.

In the melodrama The Last Prescription (1952) with OW Fischer , she took on the small role of Frau Berger. In the fairy tale film Hansel and Gretel (1954) by Walter Janssen she played the crunchy witch. In the operetta adaptation Schön ist die Welt (1957) she embodied the role of director Müllrath's secretary, the weirdly over-the-top Fraulein Schimmel. In the crime comedy Der Gauner und der liebe Gott she was seen alongside Gert Fröbe as Miss Mauer. In the film adaptation of the operetta The Bird Dealer (1960), set up for television by Kurt Wilhelm , she played the role of Elfriede, the elder daughter of the village mayor, alongside Gerhard Riedmann .

Later in her career, she had other cinema roles in the tragic comedy Found Fressen (1977) and as Ms. Juckenack in Michael Verhoeven's socially critical drama The Terrible Girl (1990).

In the ZDF television film Eine Unheilige Liebe (1993) about the love of a Catholic priest, she played the role of the parsonage. The film database IMDb lists this role as Gallauner's last film work.

In addition, she had guest appearances in many television series such as The Strange Methods of Franz Josef Wanninger (1970), Munich Stories (1974), Police Inspection 1 (1977), Tatort (1984) and Der Kommissar and Der Alte . In 1989, in the ZDF series Die Schnell Gerdi , with Senta Berger in the title role, Gallauner had a continuous series role as the lovable, experienced neighbor Ms. Schmalzl.

In 1999 Gallauner lived in Munich, where she died in 2011.

Radio

In addition, Barbara Gallauner presented the magazine Musik - Gymnastik - Chatting as a moderator on Südwest 3 .

She also worked as a speaker for radio and radio plays . She was often heard in productions of the Bavarian Radio . She spoke the maid Zenzi in the radio play series Brummelg'schichten by Kurt Wilhelm and Ellis Kaut , which was very popular in Bavaria at the end of the 1940s .

In 1957 she worked for Bayerischer Rundfunk in the role of Mrs. Fleissig in a radio play production of the novel Der veruntreute Himmel .

She also lent her voice to characters from the puppet film Robbi, Tobbi and the Fliewatüüt (1972).

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ precise date of birth according to the Kay Less theater archive , confirmed by the Vienna population register
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Die Brummlstars Biographical sketch about Barbara Gallauner by director Kurt Wilhelm . Until the end of the Second World War, the biography of the Gallauners largely followed Wilhelm's account.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Albert Liebl , Biographical Sketch ( Memento from December 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Birgit Pargner, WE Yates: Nestroy in Munich , p. 199 (excerpts from Google Books)
  5. ↑ Dieter Grossherr: Aufbruchzeit: Munich 1949–1962 , p. 48 (excerpts from Google Books)
  6. ^ The Anabaptists occupation of the Münchner Kammerspiele 1967/68
  7. ↑ ... then they played again. The Bavarian State Theater 1946–1986 . Munich 1986. ISBN 3-7654-2059-X
  8. ↑ Heinrich IV. Cast of Residenztheater Munich, premiere: June 1956
  9. ↑ Barbara Gallauner . In: Biographisches Theater Handbuch , 1956 (excerpts from Google Books)
  10. ↑ Small Comedy Munich: Basil Thomas: The bestseller . Comedy in 4 pictures. At the Max II monument. Program for the season 1955/56; Issue 9
  11. ↑ Hansel and Gretel cast and photos of scenes at Cinema.de
  12. ↑ Hansel and Gretel ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cast, production details and photos of the scene @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / maerchenfilm.pytalhost.com
  13. ↑ The Bird Trader Occupation (TV program from December 26, 1960)
  14. ↑ The fast Gerdi
  15. ↑ Brummlg'schichten 9: The honest finder HÖRDAT, the audio game database (No. 9)
  16. ↑ The misappropriated sky . HÖRDAT, the audio game database (No. 9)
personal data
SURNAME Gallauner, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 2011
Place of death Munich