Edith Klinger
Edith Klinger (born Margulies ; * March 28, 1922 in Vienna ; † March 14, 2013 there ) was an Austrian animal rights activist and long-time television presenter of the popular ORF animal dispensing program “ Who wants me? ". In earlier years Klinger was known as a film and theater actress under the name Edith Prager . Most recently she lived with a cat in a small apartment on the edge of the Pötzleinsdorfer Schlosspark in Vienna.
Life
After the separation of her parents, Edith Margulies grew up with her mother Nema Peretianu in Bucharest , where she graduated from the renowned French Lyceum and the Academy for Performing Arts with outstanding success.
Career
After the end of the war, she returned to Vienna, the hometown of her father Otto Margulies , who had died under Nazi rule in the Theresienstadt ghetto , and began an acting career under the name of her first husband (Prague) . After marrying her second husband, the industrialist Harald Klinger , in 1954, she gave up this professional career, which later also took her to Munich , in order to support him in his company (textile printing works).
From 1964 Klinger was responsible for the “animal corner” in the Kronen Zeitung for 36 years . She also wrote cultural articles, travel stories as well as film and theater reviews for the paper; Due to her profound knowledge of foreign languages (French, Italian, Romanian, English), she was sometimes used for translation work. Before she was recruited by the publisher Hans Dichand as an editorial staff member, she had won his attention through the selfless regular funding of advertisements for the search for lost animals. She worked for three years without pay because she didn't want her commitment to become a profession. At the same time as the "animal corner" she had an animal welfare column in which she occasionally did not shy away from open conflict with business interests. Shortly after the television broadcast was discontinued, she was also deprived of taking care of the “animal corner”. Her television appearance on Hermes Phettberg's “Nette Leit Show” had great success .
From 1981 to the end of 1999 she was - after participating in the TV “Seniors Club” in the 1970s - as a television presenter for the popular ORF animal show “ Who wants me? “Only worked as an animal mediator on weekdays and soon always on Saturdays in the late afternoon, setting up strict criteria for the award. She always presented her show in a dirndl dress. In 2000 she was replaced by a 50 years younger former stewardess, Maggie Entenfellner , and the show was then discontinued as "out of date".
The animal welfare activist, who was also active in other countries (Italy, Greece, Egypt), had been in poor health since 2005 after she suffered a broken thigh. Her stepson is the journalist Tom Klinger, who worked for the Kronenzeitung and the Österreich newspaper , among others .
Edith Klinger is buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery (V. Tor, New Jewish Department)
Awards
Klinger, which for decades together with numerous other animal rights activists and animal rights groups vehemently for a nationwide applicable Animal Welfare Act began, wearer's state and church awards:
- Prize of the Leopold Gratz Foundation for social commitment
Filmography
- 1948: The treasure chest
- 1949: fairy tales of happiness
- 1950: happiness from Ohio
- 1950: Child of the Danube
- 1951: Eva and the gynecologist
- 1951: Czardas of hearts
- 1952: April 1, 2000
- 1952: Viennese women
- 1953: starfish
- 1956: Lies have pretty legs
- 1960: Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti
Sample programs
- ORF: Edith Klinger: "Who wants me?" "Animals are looking for a home". ORF FS2. Archived broadcast from 1985.
- ORF: Edith Klinger: "Who wants me?" "Animals are looking for a home". ORF FS2. Archived broadcast from 1987.
Web links
- Edith Klinger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marga Swoboda : "Animal mother" Edith Klinger died at the age of 90. in: Kronen Zeitung of March 14, 2013.
- Hermes Phettberg : Edith Klinger as guest in Hermes Phettberg's “Nice Leit Show” excerpt from the broadcast on July 15, 1995.
- Anna-Maria Wallner: When animal lovers leave - and carry on. What is Helmut Pechlaner doing in the new year? And what became of Edith Klinger? in: The press . dated September 26, 2006.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The difficult ones were her dearest. In: Kurier , March 14, 2013.
- ↑ Source article / interview by Roland Hofbauer in News No. 12 of March 22, 2007.
- ↑ Edith Klinger is dead: The “animal mother” of the nation in: Die Presse. dated March 14, 2013.
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Margulies Otto: obituary report, Ghetto Theresienstadt on holocaust.cz, accessed on February 16, 2014.
- ↑ a b Edith Klinger died. Former actress wrote television history with the ORF program “Who wants me?”. In: Wiener Zeitung Online. March 14, 2013, accessed March 14, 2013 .
- ↑ ORF Vienna: "Tiermutti" Edith Klinger died (accessed on March 14, 2013).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klinger, Edith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Margulies (maiden name); Prager, Edith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actress, presenter and animal rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 2013 |
| Place of death | Vienna |