Elisabeth Rath

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Elisabeth Rath (born July 6, 1948 in Linz ) is an Austrian actress .

Life

She received her acting training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. From 1970 to 1972 she had her first engagement at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen , where she appeared as Christine in Liebelei . 1972 to 1974 she worked at the Staatstheater Darmstadt , 1974 to 1980 at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, there especially in plays by Lessing, Schiller and Nestroy.

In 1980 she went to the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin . Here she played in plays by Schiller and Shakespeare, as well as in Goethe's Stella in 1982 and Racine's Phaedra in 1984 . In 1985/86 she worked at the Volksbühne Berlin , where she played Frank Wedekind's Franziska . From 1986 to 1988 she worked at the Theater in der Josefstadt , then at the Burgtheater .

From 1988 to 1993 she was part of the ensemble of the State Theater Hanover . Her roles here included Elisabeth in Maria Stuart and Ellida in The Woman from the Sea . In 1993 she moved to the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. She celebrated her greatest success here in 1996 as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's master class . In 1998 she took part in the world premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's Ein Sportstück at the Burgtheater.

At the Vienna Volkstheater she was seen in the German-language premiere of Belbel's Das Blut in 2000 . At the Salzburg Festival in 1987 she gave a guest appearance in Der Bauer als Millionär . She rarely took on film and television roles, for example in the crime scene episode When Women Eat Oysters as crime writer Roswitha Reimers. She teaches at the Bavarian Theater Academy in Munich.

Filmography

Awards

literature

  • Wolfgang Beck: Rath, Elisabeth . In: Manfred Brauneck, Wolfgang Beck (ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt's encyclopedia published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. Reinbek near Hamburg, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0 , p. 581 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Rath, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz