Dagny Servaes

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Dagny Servaes on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Dagmar Servaes (born March 10, 1894 in Berlin , † July 10, 1961 in Vienna ) was a German- Austrian theater and film actress and voice actress .

Life

The daughter of the writer Franz Servaes (1862–1947) took acting lessons at the Vienna Academy for Music and Performing Arts . In 1912 she got an engagement at the court theater in Meiningen . From 1913 Dagny Servaes played at renowned Berlin theaters such as the Deutsches Theater , Lessingtheater and Staatstheater .

In 1916 it was first used in silent films, where it quickly played its way forward. Emil Jannings was her partner several times , especially in the monumental film The Pharaoh's Wife in 1921. Although already celebrated as a new star, her film duties became somewhat smaller in the years that followed. She turned back to the theater and made a tour of the United States with Max Reinhardt's ensemble from 1926 to 1928. In New York she was on stage with the plays Jedermann , A Midsummer Night's Dream , Danton's Death and Carlo Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters . From 1926 to 1937 she was the fanatic in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival .

Dagny Servaes, who settled in Vienna in 1936, only offered supporting roles in the sound film. She also worked as a voice actress, for example in the cartoon by Walt Disney , in “ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) ”, where she used her German voice in the first German dubbed version from 1938 in Vienna , the characters: “Die böse Queen " (spoken in the English original by Lucille La Verne ), and the" witch "gave. From 1938 to 1948 she played at the Theater in der Josefstadt and temporarily in 1950 at the Volkstheater . Since 1952 she has been part of the Burgtheater ensemble . Her grave is at the Grinzinger Friedhof in Vienna Gr. 36 / row 2 No. 1A. Her daughter Evi Servaes also pursued an acting career.

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Commons : Dagny Servaes  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)
  2. ↑ Awards. In:  Salzburger Chronik , August 17, 1936, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sch
personal data
SURNAME Servaes, Dagny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Servaes, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian theater and film actress and voice actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1961
Place of death Vienna , Austria