Elisabeth Orth

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elisabeth Orth in the Austrian Theater Museum on the occasion of the event König Ottokars Glück and the end of 1955-2005, a comparison , January 26, 2007

Elisabeth Orth , actually Elisabeth Hörbiger (born February 8, 1936 in Vienna ), is an Austrian actress , chamber actress , member of the ensemble since 1973 and doyenne of the Vienna Burgtheater since 2015 . She is the sister of Christiane Hörbiger and Maresa Hörbiger . In order not to make a career with the name Hörbiger, she took the family name of her maternal grandmother.

Life

Elisabeth Orth followed in the footsteps of her famous parents Attila Hörbiger (1896–1987) and Paula Wessely (1907–2000) and completed the Max Reinhardt Seminar . This was followed by first engagements at the Vienna Volkstheater and the Theater der Courage in Vienna as well as at the Munich Residenztheater . Elisabeth Orth made her debut at the Vienna Burgtheater in 1965 as Luise in Schiller's Kabale und Liebe under Leopold Lindtberg and alongside Klausjürgen Wussow . The chamber actress has been a member of the Burgtheater ensemble since 1968 .

After an engagement at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin from 1995 to 1999, Elisabeth Orth played again at the Vienna Burgtheater. She has appeared in Maria Stuart , Don Carlos and Der Kirschgarten (directed by Andrea Breth ) , among others .

As a village school teacher in The Last Days of Mankind at the Salzburg Festival 2014

The actress has been a guest at the Salzburg Festival since 1969 . In 1969 she took on the role of Good Works in Jedermann am Salzburger Domplatz and embodied faith from 1990 to 1993. She was also seen in the works of Shakespeare , Grillparzer , Schnitzler and Dostoevsky . In 2014 she was part of the ensemble of the Karl Kraus production The Last Days of Mankind and impressed with several character studies of smaller roles.

From 1985 to 1994 Elisabeth Orth presented the ORF telecast treasury Austria . Until 2000 she was a columnist for the Catholic weekly newspaper Die Furche . Elisabeth Orth works against anti-Semitism and xenophobia .

Elisabeth Orth's son Cornelius Obonya , who was born in 1969 and was also engaged at the Burgtheater, continues the tradition of the actor family . Cornelius Obonya's father was the castle actor Hanns Obonya , who died on May 27, 1978 and was Elisabeth Orth's third husband.

On February 5, 2006, there was a festival performance in the Burgtheater on the occasion of the actress' 70th birthday: On this evening Maria Stuart was performed for the 70th and for the last time in this production.

Civil society engagement

Elisabeth Orth with Johanna Dohnal (2008)

Elisabeth Orth is President of the Action against Anti-Semitism in Austria . On January 11, 2015, together with Peter Matić , she read a text by the Austrian Federal Government at the demonstration Together against Terror at Ballhausplatz in Vienna in front of 12,000 demonstration participants. In previous years she has repeatedly stood up against racism and for human rights .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays / audio books

  • 1985: Friederike Mayröcker : Death and the Maiden - Director: Götz Fritsch (radio play - ORF )
  • 1996: Rolf Schneider : Montezumas Krone (J. Adler) - Director: Rolf Schneider (detective radio play - MDR / SFB )
  • 2008: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach : Das Gemeindekind (narrator) - Director: Götz Fritsch (radio play - ORF / MDR)
  • 2009: Jürg Amann : In the Train of Time - Director: Götz Fritsch (radio play - ORF)
  • 2014: Werner Fritsch : Aller Seelen - Director: Werner Fritsch (radio play - ORF / HR)
  • 2018: ... your Lise - the physicist Lise Meitner in exile - concept / music / arrangement: Stefan Frankenberger (audio book © 2018 Buchfunk Verlag / Leipzig)

Publications

  • 1975: Fairy tales of their lives - My parents Attila Hörbiger and Paula Wessely. Molden, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-217-00660-7 .
  • Christine Dobretsberger: What I love gives me strength. Stage stars from opera and theater tell stories. Including an interview with Elisabeth Orth, Styria Premium, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-222-13517-0 .
  • You will never become anything. Memories. Recorded and edited by Norbert Mayer . Amalthea, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85002-911-7 .

Awards

See also

radio

  • Christina Höfferer and Andreas Kloner: Hörbiger. A family constellation. ORF radio feature 2008, 54 min.

literature

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Orth  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kurier: Elisabeth Orth is the new doyenne of the Burgtheater ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article dated February 2, 2015, accessed February 2, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kurier.at
  2. ↑ Der Standard : Around 12,000 people at the rally on Ballhausplatz in Vienna on January 11, 2015
  3. ^ Burgtheater: Elisabeth Orth honorary member . Article dated October 31, retrieved November 1, 2014.
  4. ^ Nestroys: Wuttke and Orth are "best actors" . Article dated November 2, 2015, accessed November 2, 2015.


personal data
SURNAME Orth, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna