Brigitte Swoboda

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Brigitte Swoboda (born February 1, 1943 in Vienna ; † June 24, 2019 in Kittsee ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

Brigitte Swoboda was born in Vienna- Brigittenau in 1943 . She grew up in the first district of Vienna and reported about it in the ORF documentary Meine Innere Stadt (2017). Even as a child she wanted to be a pianist or actress, but trained as a graphic designer and began acting at the age of 17. For a while she was an amateur actress in the “Neue Wiener Bühne”. In 1969 she got the role of Birgit in Wolfgang Bauer's first work Magic Afternoon at the Vienna Ateliertheater by chance . For this role she received the Kainz Medal .

In 1969 she was discovered by Gustav Manker and engaged at the Vienna Volkstheater . Her first role was Salome Pockerl in Nestroy's “ The Talisman ” as partner of Helmut Qualtinger . Brigitte Swoboda broke with the Viennese performance tradition in this role and was not "the cute creature from a Rousseau landscape", but "a sloppy proletarian of the most uncomfortable shape, a shadowy plant from the night asylum, the changeling of a big city teenager who was put in the goose barn" . The famous couplet Yes, the men are good! sounded "as dangerous as if it had been scratched with a rusty knife". (Southgerman newspaper)

Then came the nurse Riki in the world premiere of Wolfgang Bauer's Change (1969). In the following years Swoboda developed into a popular folk actress and, along with Heinz Petters , Dolores Schmidinger and Hilde Sochor, became part of the famous Nestroy ensemble at the Volkstheater: Heimliches Geld, heimliche Liebe (1972), There is no means against folly (1973), For free! (1974), The Gewürzkrämerkleeblatt (1977). In addition, Swoboda also played in plays by Ferdinand Raimund's Altwiener Volkstheater , such as Rosa in Der Verschwender , Linda in Der Barometermacher auf der Zauberinsel and Ludwig Anzengruber (Pepi Schalanter in Das vierte Gebot , 1970). But she also set strong accents in world premieres of Peter Turrini ( Die Wirtin , 1975), Walter Wippersberg ( Was haben vom Leben , 1976), Franz Xaver Kroetz ( Not Fish, Not Meat , 1980), Heinz Rudolf Unger ( Zwölfeläuten , 1984) and Felix Mitterer ( No beautiful country , 1987). Swoboda was a member of the Volkstheater Ensemble until she retired in 2003. She was also made an honorary member there.

Swoboda also became known through television appearances such as Mrs. Wybiral in Der neue Untertenieter or through her participation as caretaker Koziber in the cult series Kaisermühlen Blues . Most recently she played at her parent company, in the Volkstheater Vienna, a. a. in Nestroy's The Girl from the Suburbs , Nestroy's The Evil Spirit Lumpazivagabundus or in Broch's The Tale of the Maid Zerlina .

Brigitte Swoboda died in June 2019 after a long, serious illness at the age of 76 in the hospital in Kittsee in Burgenland . She was cremated and her urn was buried at her last place of residence, Apetlon, in the Neusiedl am See district .

Movie and TV

Brigitte Swoboda's grave

theatre

  • 2003: Anatevka (Volksoper): Golde
  • 2010: Liliom (Volkstheater)

Radio plays

Awards

Web links

Commons : Brigitte Swoboda  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Schenk, Paulus Manker, Brigitte Swoboda and Peter Rapp present “My Inner City” on July 16. In: APA-OTS . July 13, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
  2. ^ Paulus Manker: The theater man Gustav Manker. Search for clues. Amalthea, Vienna 2010 ISBN 978-3-85002-738-0
  3. ↑ Volkstheater actress Brigitte Swoboda is dead: "A Viennese Original" , nachtkritik.de of June 24, 2019, accessed June 26, 2019
  4. ↑ Brigitte Swoboda died. In: ORF.at . June 24, 2019, accessed June 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Swoboda, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2019
Place of death Kittsee