Doris Kirchner

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Doris Kirchner (born May 4, 1930 in Graz ; † March 26, 2015 in Ahrensburg ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

She received her artistic training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna at the end of the 1940s . She made her debut at the Schauspielhaus in Graz and then played on various stages, including the Burgtheater .

Doris Kirchner was very often seen in the movies of the 1950s. Above all in homeland films and comedies , she embodied the dashing Maderl in supporting and occasionally leading roles, for example in 1955 in Ja, ja, die Liebe in Tirol , a film adaptation of the farmer 's swank Kohlhiesels Töchter , where she portrayed the desirable two unequal sisters .

Doris Kirchner was temporarily married to the film directors Franz Josef Gottlieb and Helmuth Ashley . From 1988 to the summer of 2003 she headed the stage studio for the performing arts , a drama school in Hamburg.

The actress, suffering from dementia since a stroke in 2003, last lived in a retirement and nursing home in Ahrensburg near Hamburg.

In 2011 Kirstin Poggendorff made a moving documentary about the actress who lives in the Tobias retirement home in Ahrensburg.

Research by the Berlin film researcher M. Jahnke revealed that the former actress passed away unnoticed by the public in 2015.

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SURNAME Kirchner, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Austria
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2015
Place of death Ahrensburg