Ellen Umlauf

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Ellen Umlauf (born August 17, 1925 in Vienna , † February 19, 2000 in Rotorua , New Zealand ) was an actress , ballet dancer, writer , director and producer .

Career

Umlauf was born in Vienna as the daughter of the young writer Anneliese Umlauf (Baroness Lamatsch Edle von Waffenstein). After studying at the Max Reinhardt Seminar , she became a ballet dancer who performed as a solo dancer in the opera houses of Breslau and Graz. She later worked as an actress in Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf, Zurich and Vienna and was also very successful as a film actress . Ellen Umlauf became an Austrian television star with her role as the scheming Frau Kaiser in the Viennese TV series Kaisermühlen-Blues . In 1998 she played in Hinterholz 8 under the direction of Harald Sicherheitsitz alongside Roland Düringer , Reinhard Nowak , Nina Proll , Andrea Händler and Wolfgang Böck . But she also enjoyed great popularity as a stage actress in the Wiener Schauspielhaus and at the Vienna Volksoper .

She liked to spend her free time in the South Seas , especially in Fiji , which became her second home. She made several documentaries about this and other regions of the South Seas and their coexistence with the people there. Her last stage role was the witch in Cordula Trantow's production of Faust I at the end of 1999 . She died in a motel in the city of Rotorua, New Zealand, after being poisoned with hydrogen sulfide from underground volcanic activity. Their ashes were scattered into the sea on a nearby beach.

Ellen Umlauf has a son Alexander Rueprecht from her marriage to actor Albert Rueprecht, as well as a daughter from another relationship.

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personal data
SURNAME Umlauf, Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 2000
Place of death Rotorua , New Zealand