Elvira Weigel

Elvira Weigel , born Elvira Karoline Hofer , (born on March 16, 1927 in Knittelfeld , Austria ; died on September 12, 1995 in Tel Aviv , Israel ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

The Styrian Elvira Hofer was abducted during the Anschluss of Austria (1938–45) to a National Socialist camp for Jewish youth near Munich, from which she liberated US soldiers at the end of the war. A little later she met the writer and theater critic Hans Weigel , who had returned from exile in Switzerland and who was to become her husband from 1951 to 1964. Elvira Hofer's theater career began in 1948 at the municipal theaters of Graz. Initially acting as Elvira Hofer, she was later mostly run as Elvira Weigel.

After a stopover at the Landestheater in Linz, Upper Austria (1953–55), she was brought to his theater by Karl-Heinz Stroux , the new general manager of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , in 1955 , to which she was to belong until 1978. There she was seen in plays as diverse as Heinrich von Kleist's Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (1968) and Johann Nestroy's He Wants to Make a Joke (1978). At a young age, Elvira Hofer also occasionally appeared in Austrian films. Most recently, the artist, severely weakened by cancer, lived under economically modest circumstances in a tiny apartment in Israel.

Filmography

• 1950: shot through the window
• 1953: He wants to make a joke

literature

• Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 179.

Web links

• Elvira Weigel in the Internet Movie Database (English)