Brigitte Neumeister

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Brigitte Neumeister and husband Felix Rothholz (Vienna 2006)

Brigitte Neumeister (born January 12, 1944 in Perchtoldsdorf , Lower Austria (then in Greater Vienna ), Austria ; †  November 1, 2013 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actress and author.

Life

The daughter of a hairdresser studied acting and singing at the Vienna Music Academy .

She had her first engagement at the age of seventeen in Saarbrücken at the State Theater , where she made her debut in the role of Ophelia and was used in numerous roles and plays (fairy tales, plays, operettas, musicals) during the four years of her stay there. In her theater career, engagements followed at the Hamburger Kammerspiele , at the Raimundtheater in Vienna, at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and at the Theater in der Josefstadt (member of the ensemble from 1968 to 1989).

In 1972 she played the Baroness Klagen in the 12th episode of the 13-part Austro-German film production The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk.

By 1980 Neumeister had released two successful long-playing records and had 80 solo evenings across Europe.

From 1989 she was a member of the ensemble at the Volkstheater Wien , where she a. a. who played Mrs. Peachum in the Threepenny Opera and a female Mephisto in Goethe's Faust . Since 2005 she has been active on the stage of the Lustspielhaus.

In addition to her success as a stage actress, she grew dear to a television audience in numerous entertainment programs, television films and operettas. The blonde actress was best known to a wider audience through the television series Kaisermühlen Blues .

Her artistic diversity also extended to solo programs for literature, cabaret reading programs and vocal performances. In 2007 she toured Germany and Switzerland with solo programs.

From 2009 to 2012 she was seen in the ORF production Die Lottosieger . She also went on a tour with Wolfgang Böck , Aus dem Reich der Burenwurst, and in May 2009 she traveled to Israel with coffee house literature.

In 2010 she starred in the TV film Tante Herthas Rindsrouladen . In September 2011 she took on the role of Mother Superior in the Musical Sister Act in Vienna.

Brigitte Neumeister lived in Vienna with her husband and manager Felix Rothholz. The two met in 1968 in Vienna's Eden Bar and married in 1972. Felix Rothholz died in July 2011. Brigitte Neumeister died suddenly and unexpectedly of natural causes on November 1, 2013 in her apartment in Vienna. The urn was buried at the Hernalser Friedhof (Gr. 43, No. 182), next to her husband, in an honorary grave of the City of Vienna in the closest family circle.

Brigitte Neumeister and Felix Rothholz's grave

Filmography / Theater (selection)

Publications

  • Brigitte Neumeister's spotlight blues. (Autobiography). Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna (among others) 1998, ISBN 3-218-00652-X .
  • Brigitte Neumeister's professional blues. Nice rooms - good dreams. (Non-fiction book). Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna (among others) 2000, ISBN 3-218-00681-3 .
  • The fire opal. Novel. 1st edition. Seifert, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-902406-11-9 .
  • Edwin Zbonek (director) a. a .: Two from Verona. DVD video. Edition Josefstadt Theater, Volume 6. Hoanzl, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902568-36-6 .
  • Ernst Waldbrunn (actor) and a .: Johanna goes ... Two one-act plays from the Kammerspiele. DVD video. Edition Josefstadt Theater, Volume 41. Hoanzl, Vienna 2009, OBV .

Awards, honors, prizes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitte Neumeister is dead. On: orf.at. November 4, 2013, accessed November 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ The unplanned success . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 3, 1980, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ a b c An angel celebrates a birthday. In: Kronen Zeitung . January 11, 2009.
  4. ↑ Actress Brigitte Neumeister has died. On: derstandard.at. November 4, 2013, accessed April 16, 2016.
  5. ↑ Actress Brigitte Neumeister has died. On: kleinezeitung.at. November 4, 2013, accessed April 20, 2020.
  6. ^ Neumeister: Farewell on November 12th. On: orf.at. November 7, 2013, accessed November 9, 2013.
  7. ↑ Vienna names the street after Maria Lassnig. On: orf.at. April 8, 2016, accessed April 8, 2016.

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Commons : Brigitte Neumeister  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Neumeister, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Perchtoldsdorf
DATE OF DEATH 1. November 2013
Place of death Vienna