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Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel (born April 5, 1900 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † December 24, 1994 there ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel grew up as Elisabeth Neumann in Vienna and, after finishing school, was trained as an actress by Otto Falckenberg and Kläre Weisenberg. She made her stage debut at the Münchner Kammerspiele , where she received her first engagement in 1921. From 1923 to 1933 she played at various stages in Berlin (e.g. Volksbühne , Prussian State Theater ) before she went to Vienna in 1933 and finally came to the USA via England in 1938. There she appeared on Broadway in New York and appeared in numerous feature films.

In 1949 Neumann-Viertel returned to Europe and made guest appearances on various stages in Germany and Austria. She had engagements from 1949 to 1953, again at the Münchner Kammerspiele, then at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich, at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf and in Vienna at the Burgtheater there and in the Theater in der Josefstadt . She also appeared at the Salzburg Festival .

On stage one saw Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel in countless classical pieces, such as B. 1921 in a joke he wants to make of Johann Nestroy on the side of Elisabeth Bergner , as Eve in Kleist's The Broken Jug , as Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare or in Leopold Jessner last Berlin production in 1933, the first performance of the piece Rosse by Richard Billinger . In 1951 and 1953 she played under the direction of Fritz Kortner , on whose Berlin theaters Neumann-Viertel had already appeared before the Nazis came to power.

Burial place of Elisabeth Viertel

In 1926, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel first appeared in front of the camera in the film Sister Veronica . In 1931 she was seen as a prostitute in Fritz Langs M. From the late 1950s she also appeared frequently on television, for example. B. with guest appearances at Tatort and Derrick or in the ARD evening series football coach Wulff . In 1972 she played the role of Miss Schneider in the Oscar-winning US film Cabaret . In the TV series A real Viennese does not go under , she played the neighbor of the Sackbauer family in several episodes. Your last television work was at the age of 88, the role of grandmother in the film How does salt get into the sea? .

Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel also worked for radio, for example in the 1973 production Der Mord im Opernhaus by Karl Bogner, a criminal case based on a true story.

In March 1997, three years after her death, the book You must play: The beautiful life of the actress Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel was published with the addition of autobiographical memories recorded by an old friend .

Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel had lived with the writer Berthold Viertel from 1940 , whom she married in 1949. She rests at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 0, Row 1, Number 104), at her husband's side.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. S. 370, ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8
  • Neumann, Elisabeth , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , pp. 700f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hermann J. Huber: Langen Müller's Actor Lexicon of the Present. Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7844-2058-3 .
  2. ↑ The murder in the opera house. on: deutschlandfunk.de
  3. ↑ You have to play: The beautiful life of the actress Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel. Edition S, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7046-0448-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Neumann quarter, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1994
Place of death Vienna