Elfriede Kuzmany

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Elfriede Kuzmany (born September 29, 1915 in Rokitnitz , † July 17, 2006 in Munich ) was an Austrian actress .

stage

After finishing school , Elfriede Kuzmany , who came from East Bohemia , first attended the Vienna Art Academy , where she studied painting and graphics. She later shifted her artistic focus to acting and switched to the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . Her first stage engagement took her to the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt in 1938 , of which she was a member until 1944. She also gave guest performances at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and at the Berliner Kammerspiele. In 1947 she was engaged at the Kammerspiele Bremen, which she left two years later to work for many years at the Bavarian State Theater in Munichto find an artistic home. Between 1949 and 1979 she played numerous character roles there, which were also applauded by theater critics internationally - for example in 1966 during a guest performance of Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Ratten in New York. Under the direction of well-known theater personalities such as Douglas Sirk , Fritz Kortner and Heinz Hilpert , Kuzmany embodied major stage roles such as Die Heiligen Johanna George Bernard Shaws , the "Kunigunde" in Heinrich von Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn , the title role in Federico García Lorca's Doña Rosita remains single , the "Olga" in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and the "Elisabeth" in Schiller's Maria Stuart . After 1979 , Elfriede Kuzmany, who was appointed state actress in 1959 , worked primarily in film and television productions and only seldom made guest appearances at the theater. a. at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin and at the Münchner Kammerspiele . She received the Bad Hersfeld Prize in 1981 for her unusual portrayal of the fool in Shakespeare's King Lear . In 1999 she was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for her services to the stage .

Film, television and radio

As early as 1939 Elfriede Kuzmany made her feature film debut (Hotel Sacher) in a small role under the direction of Erich Engel . In the following years, however, she remained a rare guest in film productions, u. a. next to Werner Krauss in Der falling Stern and next to Gustav Fröhlich in House of Life . From the late 1950s she worked in various television adaptations of stage dramas such as Shaw's Androclus and the Lion and Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Lady Kobold . Her first major film success came in 1962 as "Frau Mertens" in Rolf Thiele's comedy The Black-White-Red Four-Poster Bed , for which she received the Federal Film Prize in 1963 for best supporting actress. From the end of the 1970s Elfriede Kuzmany turned increasingly to work in film and television. She played under the direction of Hans W. Geissendörfer ( Sternsteinhof ) and Vadim Glowna (Das rigorose Leben) , alongside Michel Piccoli (Deadly Money) and Bruno Ganz ( Success - based on Lion Feuchtwanger ), in Ralph Giordano's drama Die Bertinis and together with Manfred Steffen as the protagonist of the most beautiful love story of the century . In addition, she also gave guest appearances in various television series and series such as Tatort , Der Kommissar , Derrick , Police Inspection 1 and Der Alte . In addition, she lent her voice to the main character in a cartoon version of Otfried Preussler's little ghost . In 1997 Elfriede Kuzmany stood next to Martin Benrath and Lola Müthel in the television film A matter of the heart for the last time in front of the camera.

From 1947 she had also appeared more frequently in radio play productions. You could experience her in 1948 as a partner of Fritz Kortner in Danton's death or in 1949 as the wife of Heinz Rühmann in the comedy You can tell me a lot . In 1955, Maria Becker and Will Quadflieg were their partners in Sappho. A tragedy . In later years she spoke leading roles alongside Paul Hoffmann and Klausjürgen Wussow in One Long Day's Journey into the Night (1975) and in 1993 with Karl Walter Diess in Jena .

Others

At an advanced age, Elfriede Kuzmany turned back to the fine arts. She produced numerous graphics, watercolors and drawings that were exhibited at various vernissages in Berlin, Munich and Vienna.

In 1985 she wrote under the title The Anti-Antifaust or How One Could Abolish Goethe's “Faust” or Joke, Satire, Crazy Direction, Inferior Meaning: a fictional director's book an artistic settlement with the director's theater.

On July 17, 2006 Elfriede Kuzmany died in Munich after a long and serious illness.

Awards (selection)

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Works (selection)

  • The anti-anti-fist or how one could abolish Goethe's “Faust” or joke, satire, crazy direction, inferior meaning: a fictional director's book , Munich: Obalski 1985.

Web links

Obituaries

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwabinger Art Prize on München.de (accessed on July 27, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Kuzmany, Elfriede
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuzmany-Wachsmann, Elfriede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Rokitnitz , today Rokytnice v Orlických horách
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 2006
Place of death Munich