Christine Kayßler

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Christine Anne Kayssler (born October 13, 1923 in Munich ; † November 17, 2010 in Innsbruck ; often referred to as Christine Kayssler ) was a German actress .

family

Christine Kayßler was the daughter of the actor Christian Kayßler and the children's book author Anne Kayßler-Beblo. Her grandfathers were the architect Fritz Beblo and the actor Friedrich Kayssler . The half-siblings Maria and Martin Kayßler have also taken up the acting profession.

life and work

Christine Kayßler attended the State Theater drama school in her hometown from 1941 to 1943 . In 1943 she began her first engagement at the German-language theater in Strasbourg with a performance of Emilia Galotti . Christine Kayßler began her post-war career in 1946 at the Stuttgart State Theater , to which she was to remain loyal until 1950. At the beginning of her career her role subject was that of the 'heavy sentimental' and the 'youthful heroine'. In Stuttgart, for example, she embodied Antigone in the Anouilh play of the same name , the princess in Torquato Tasso , Maria Stuart and Lavinia in Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Electra Must Carry .

From 1950 to 1953 she played under Heinz Hilpert at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen . She then took to the stage in Wuppertal and also worked as an acting teacher in Bochum. In 1972 she finally returned to the DT in Göttingen. Here she played for almost thirty years under the directors Günther Fleckenstein and Heinz Engels and embodied stage roles such as the “Electress” in Kleist's Prince of Homburg , the “Daja” in Lessing's Nathan the Wise and the “Dr. Zahn ”in Dürrenmatt's physicists . In 2001 Christine Kayßler retired from the stage.

While the stage was the focus of her artistic activity throughout her life, Christine Kayßler occasionally took on roles in film and television productions. Here she was seen, for example, in Peter Palitzsch's drama The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc in Rouen 1431 , in Klaus Gietinger's television play Sisters and in the Sat.1 series Der Bergdoktor .

Christine Kayßler died on November 17, 2010 in Innsbruck as a result of a stroke .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1967: The trial of Joan of Arc at Rouen in 1431
  • 1983: sisters
  • 1995: The Bergdoktor : Curse from the Hereafter

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ after Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 501.
  2. ^ German Stage Yearbook 2011 , Cooperative of German Stage Members (Ed.), 2010, p. 729.
  3. ↑ http://www.prisma.de/fernsehen/sendung.html?cid=Heimat&stime=2009-04-26%2018%3A35%3A00%2B02
personal data
SURNAME Kayßler, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kayßler, Christine Anne (full name); Kayssler, Christine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 2010
Place of death innsbruck