Edith Mill

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Edith Mill (born August 16, 1925 in Vienna , † November 10, 2007 in Port Moody ; actually Edith Rosalia Martha Müll ) was an Austrian theater and film actress.

Life

Edith Mill was born in Vienna in 1925 as the daughter of the innkeeper Georg Müll. Trained as an actress at the Max Reinhardt Seminar there from 1941 to 1943 , she had already been on stage in 1934 (together with her sister) at the Deutsches Volkstheater in a fairy tale play. After a stopover in Graz , the Mimin - who had meanwhile changed her unflattering surname to "Mill" - returned to her home town to take on roles at the Burgtheater until 1953 . Here she mainly occupied the subject of young sentimentalists, and could be seen in plays such as Iphigenie , Liebelei , Lysistrata and The Flies .

From 1949 onwards, the dark-haired actress also received offers in the film industry, after she was said to have had a brief appearance in the artist drama Gabriele Dambrone staged by Hans Steinhoff in 1943 . She was Curd Jürgens ' partner five times , played at his side a. a. in witches , shot through the window and bonuses on death .

In Munich she met Richard König , a film producer 25 years her senior , whom she married in 1953. The following year she appeared for the first time in a feature film by her brother-in-law, Hans Heinz König , whose preferred leading actress she would become in the following years. In the comedy entitled Beloved Fräulein Doktor , Mill played a plainly dressed teacher who, thanks to fictitious love letters written by her students, turns into an attractive young woman. This was followed by Der Fischer vom Heiligensee , Das Erbe vom Pruggerhof (both 1955), Hot Harvest (1956) and finally Jägerblut (1957). Probably the most interesting of these four productions , which can be assigned to the Heimatfilm, was Hot Harvest , which was based on neorealist works such as Bitterer Reis . Here she portrayed the farm worker Auschra, who falls in love with the son of a hop farmer. In March 1957, Mill had a car accident in which her young son Richard was injured. She split her lip herself. After family difficulties, she finally separated from her husband, who died in 1961. When her brother-in-law withdrew from the film business - he directed his last feature film with Jägerblut in 1957 - Mill's film career stalled and so she increasingly turned to television, starring in crime series such as Sherlock Holmes and Stahlnetz . However, their participation was not infrequently limited to supporting roles or guest appearances. In 1959, wearing a blonde wig, she made a short but striking appearance as Lady Doringham in the Edgar Wallace film adaptation of The Red Circle , directed by Jürgen Roland .

In 1968 she emigrated to Canada , where she worked as a yoga teacher and healer. Most recently she lived in Port Moody.

Filmography

theatre

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 1137.
  • Reiner Heinz: Edith Mill . In: Film-Dienst No. 1, 2008, p. 18
  • Edith Mill - actress . In: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film . 49th delivery, July 2010
  • Edith Mill , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 16/2008 from April 15, 2008, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

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References and comments

  1. ↑ See this: Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorfs internationales Film-Lexikon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 1137.
  2. ↑ Bregenz Festival, Chronicle
personal data
SURNAME Mill, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garbage, Edith Rosalia Martha (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 2007
Place of death Port Moody