Erika Pluhar

Erika Pluhar, 2012

Erika Pluhar (born February 28, 1939 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actress , singer and writer .

Life

Erika Pluhar is the daughter of Anna and Josef Pluhar, who worked as an administrative officer (including adjutant to SS group leader Otto Wächter ) in the Generalgouvernement during the Second World War . Her older sister is Brigitte King, her younger sister the painter and sculptor Ingeborg G. Pluhar .

She experienced the end of the World War as a refugee in Pfaffstätt , in a wooden house that is no longer standing right next to the cemetery. She danced for the first time to the “Countess” who was friends with her mother in the same place. At first she could only live with her aunt in or near Vienna.

After graduating from high school in 1957, she studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (graduated in 1959 with distinction) and then became an actress at the Burgtheater , where she was a member of the ensemble from 1959 to 1999.

Important roles included Luzie in Hermann Bahr's Das Phantom (1959), Ismene in Antigone (1961), Doña Angela in Calderón's Lady Kobold (1964), Amalia in Die Räuber (1965), Desdemona in Othello (1967), Queen in Grillparzer's Die Jüdin von Toledo (1968), Lyudmila in Babels Marija (1969), Queen in Don Carlos (1973), the title character in Maria Stuart (1974), Lady Milford in Cabal and Love (1975), Ruth in Harold Pinter's Homecoming ( 1977), the title character in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (1978), Helene in Hofmannsthal's Der Schwierige (1978), Esther in Vitrac's Victor or the Children in Power (1978), Varvara in Gorkis Sommergäste (1979), Regine in Musil's Die Schwärmer ( 1981), Ranjewskaja in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (1982), Katarina in Lars Norén's Demons (1985/1986), Natalja in Turgenev's A Month in the Country (1986) and Mother in Norén's Night, Mother of the Day (1991).

She has made guest appearances at the Münchner Kammerspiele (1973), the Bad Hersfeld Festival , the Bregenz Festival and the Jagsthausen Castle Festival , among others . After great success under several directors, especially at the time of Achim Benning , it was hardly occupied under the direction of Claus Peymann and decided against further work as an actress. In 2004 she returned to the theater stage at Wiener stadtTheater walfischgasse and in St. Pölten and played with Werner Schneyder in his dramatization of her novel Forgive me, is that the end of the line here?

Her first marriage to Udo Proksch (1934–2001) from 1962 to 1967 had daughter Anna Proksch (1961–1999), who suffocated from an asthma attack . Her son, the actor Ignaz Pluhar (* 1984 in Vienna), who lives with her in her Grinzing house, is actually the grandson of Sahrawi origin adopted by her daughter . Pluhar adopted him himself to spare him the turmoil surrounding the name “Proksch”. She documented Ignaz Pluhar's first visit to his home country Western Sahara in the film Sahara in mir (2012). - Udo Proksch, whose guilt Pluhar doubts to this day, had been sentenced to life imprisonment for sixfold murder. She entered into a second marriage in 1970 with André Heller . After separating from Heller in 1973 (the divorce did not take place until 1984), she was connected to Peter Vogel for a number of years, until his suicide in 1978 .

Her singing career began in the early 1970s. She initially interpreted hits from the 1920s and 1930s as well as songs by André Heller, Stephan Sulke and Wolf Biermann . Since the early 1980s she has only sung her own lyrics. Musical companions were and are António Victorino de Almeida , Peter Marinoff and Klaus Trabitsch . Pluhar has been writing since childhood. She published her first book in 1981.

Politically, it is considered close to the SPÖ . Among other things, she campaigns against right-wing extremism , including in 2010 on the occasion of Barbara Rosenkranz's candidacy for the office of Federal President .

Works

Erika Pluhar, 2009

Books

From diaries. 1981
To survive. Songs and their stories. 1982
Songs. 1986
As if one thing belonged to the other. A story. 1991
Written between the horizons. Songs, poetry, little prose. 1992
Marisa. Flashbacks to a friendship. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1996
At the end of the garden. Memories of a youth. 1997
The fish learns to fly. On the way through the years. 2000
Excuse me, is this the end of the line? 2001
The vote. 2003
Erika Pluhar. A picture book. 2004
The quiet time. Stories and thoughts not just for Christmas. 2004
Realm of losses. 2005
Pairwise. Stories and reflections on togetherness. Residence, St. Pölten 2007, ISBN 978-3-7017-1472-8
He. Novel. Residence, St. Pölten 2008, ISBN 978-3-7017-1491-9
More than ever. All songs. Residence, St. Pölten 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-1513-8
Late diary. Residence, St. Pölten 2010, ISBN 978-3-7017-1537-4
Late diary (paperback), Insel Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-35791-9
PaarWeise (paperback), Insel Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-458-35883-1
In the shadow of time. Novel. Residence, St. Pölten 2012, ISBN 978-3-7017-1588-6
In the shadow of time (paperback), Insel Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-458-35947-0
The public woman. An autobiographical novel. Residence, St. Pölten 2013, ISBN 978-3-7017-1618-0
Empire of Losses (paperback), Insel Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-458-35982-1
The public woman (paperback), Insel Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-458-36054-4
Across from. Novel. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7017-1674-6
Matilda's inventions (paperback), Insel Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-458-36132-9
Marisa - A Friendship (paperback), Insel Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-458-36286-9
Anna: a childhood , Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7017-1701-9
My songs, Insel Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-458-36388-0
Raise your voice , Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7017-3495-5

Audio books

The papalagi. The speeches of the South Sea Chief Tuiavii spoken by Erika Pluhar. A sound image with music by Klaus Trabitsch . Extraplatte, Vienna 1993, EX 189 CD
Marisa. Flashbacks to a friendship. 2 audio cassettes. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-455-30105-3
Pluhar reads Pluhar. Little prose. Poetry. Songs. Extraplatte, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-221-13282-4
Erika Pluhar reads Marlen Haushofer. 1 CD. ORF, Vienna 1998
Autumn stands on the ladder and paints its leaves - autumn in music and poetry. 1 CD. Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart 2000
Excuse me, is this the end of the line? With Erika Pluhar and Peter Simonischek . 4 MC. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-455-30234-3
There is no death - Erika Pluhar with thoughts from Father Diego. 1 CD. Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart 2001
The vote. Abridged version / audio piece with Regina Fritsch , Joseph Lorenz and Erika Pluhar. 3 CDs. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-455-30327-7
Erika Pluhar reads Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler: Safe in life. 1 CD. Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart 2003
Elfriede Jelinek: Oh wilderness, oh protection from it. 2 CDs. Argon Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-87024-873-4
Realm of losses. Author reading. 7 CDs. DuMont, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-8321-7950-2
Virginia Woolf : A room of her own. Abridged reading, spoken by Erika Pluhar. Random House Audio 2007, ISBN 978-3-86604-520-0
The quiet time: stories and thoughts not only for Christmas. 1 CD. Herder, Freiburg i.Br. 2007
Late diary. Author reading. 5 CDs. Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten 2010, ISBN 978-3-7017-4005-5

Discography

1972: Erika Pluhar sings
1974: either way is life
1975: The love songs of Erika Pluhar
1975: Erika Pluhar (compilation)
1976: Here I am
1976: love songs - one way or another
1977: Erika Pluhar's Wiener Lieder
1978: relationships
1978: Early Years (Compilation)
1979: Pluhar sings Biermann: The angels fall dead from heaven to earth
1980: Erika Pluhar (compilation)
1981: On the way
1981: scars
1982: About Life
1983: Erika Pluhar (GDR publication)
1983: lovers
1984: with Antonio D'Almeida, Peter Marinoff: Das Trio
1985: with Antonio D'Almeida, Peter Marinoff: Nevertheless
1989: Bossa à la Marinoff
1990: with Antonio V. D'Almeida, Peter Marinoff: Wiener Lieder
1994: with Antonio V. D'Almeida, Peter Marinoff: songs from 10 years (compilation)
1996: with Klaus Trabitsch : An evening at the Naschmarkt
1996: with Antonio V. D'Almeida: For ever
1998: with Antonio V. D'Almeida, Klaus Trabitsch, Paulo Jorge: Jahraus, Jahresin (The Viennese songs part 2)
2000: with Klaus Trabitsch: I give up
2002: Songs from Heaven and Earth
2004: Once Upon a Time - A Way of Life in Songs (Compilation Box-Set)
2006: Back then
2006: song. Vienna. We.
2011: More than ever - a concert with Klaus Trabitsch

Filmography

1961: The doors slam
1963: The seagull
1964: the fourth commandment
1968: Bel Ami
1968: moss on the stones
1968: The citizens of Calais
1969: The Commissioner : Nobody heard the shot
1969: The bid
1969: dream novel
1969: Sister Bonaventure
1970: Here I am, my father
1970: Perrak
1971: The goalie's fear at the penalty kick
1971: The night of Lisbon
1971: Crime scene : The judge in white
1972: Monsieur Chasse
1973: Reigen
1974: The difficult one
1975: The rope around the neck
1976: The brothers
1977: gas light
1977: death or freedom
1977: beautiful gigolo, poor gigolo
1978: The Lady of the Camellias
1978: The man in the reeds
1979: Sunday children
1979: The Old : New Objectivity
1983: love is not an argument
1986: marble tables
1992: Rosalina's House (and co-director)
1994: Something close to my heart
1994: Mrs. Klein
1994: Roses from Jericho
2001: Marafona: a film about love (and co-director)
2009: Udo Proksch - Out of Control
2009: The end is my beginning
2009: My Life: Erika Pluhar (Documentation)
2012: Sahara in me (documentation)
2013: Laguna (and director)

Theater roles (Burg- und Akademietheater Wien)

1959: Luzie ( The Phantom )

1959: Margot ( The Maid of Orleans )

1959: Iris ( The Trojan War does not take place )

1959: Lady-in-waiting ( The Prince of Homburg )

1959: attendant ( Wallenstein's camp )

1959: Salchen ( The Alpine King and the Misanthrope )

1959: Nanni ( The Difficult )

1960: Marja Timofejewna ( The Taken )

1960: Lady Mortimer ( King Henry IV )

1960: Lucinde ( The unwilling doctor )

1960: Varya ( The Cherry Orchard )

1960: Lea ( The Imitation Christ Game )

1960: Elfe ( A Midsummer Night's Dream )

1960: Miss Massary ( The Violet )

1961: Slave ( The Golden Fleece )

1961: daughter of an Anglo-Saxon ( Becket or the honor of God )

1961: Mirzl ( Moisasur's Magic Curse )

1961: Maiden of Honor ( The Cardinal of Spain )

1961: Myrtle Mae ( My Friend Harvey )

1961: Atritia ( The ominous Crown )

1961: Ismene ( Antigone )

1961: Cocolina ( The Journey )

1961: Isabel ( the clock strikes one )

1961: Young Franciscan ( Galileo Galilei )

1962: Isabel ( The Judge of Zalamea )

1962: Marei ( Florian Geyer )

1963: Queen ( Richard II. )

1963: Clara ( Francis )

1963: Anita ( snow )

1964: Marie ( Woyzeck )

1964: Elise ( The Miser )

1964: Lucretia ( A brotherly dispute in Habsburg )

1964: Belvidera ( Venice Saved )

1964: Holga ( After the Fall )

1964: Queen Maria ( The King dies )

1965: Frida ( John Gabriel Borkman )

1965: Rosaura ( Life is a dream )

1965: Amalia ( The Robbers )

1965: Ellie ( Heart Death House )

1965: Liz ( judge in own case )

1965: Berta ( King Ottokar's luck and end )

1966: Miraz / Gülnare ( The dream of a life )

1966: Kunigunde ( King Ottokar's luck and end )

1966: Katerina Ivanovna ( The Karamazov Brothers )

1966: Desdemona ( Othello )

1967: Linda Savignac ( trio in the night )

1967: Ophelia ( Rosenkranz and Güldenstern )

1968: Marie ( Carnival end )

1968: Zaraide ( The Barometer Maker on the Magic Island )

1968: Eleanor of England ( The Jewess of Toledo )

1969: Marie ( Clavigo )

1969: Ludmilla ( Marija )

1971: Else ( Miss Else )

1972: Anna ( Old Times )

1972: Elisabeth ( Don Carlos )

1973: Dotty ( acrobats )

1974: Maria Stuart ( Maria Stuart )

1975: Lady Milford ( Cabal and Love )

1977: Ruth ( The Homecoming )

1977: Esther ( Victor or The Children in Power )

1978: Hedda ( Hedda Gabler )

1978: Helene ( The Difficult )

1979: Hippolyta / Titania ( A Midsummer Night's Dream )

1979: Varvara Michajlovna ( summer guests )

1980: Regine ( Die Schwärmer )

1982: Monique ( A Broken Woman )

1983: Lyubow Andrejewna ( The Cherry Orchard )

1983: K. ( Kalldewey, Farce )

1984: Katarina ( The Demons )

1986: Natalja Petrovna ( A month in the country )

1987: Betty Dullfeet ( The Resistant Rise of Arturo Ui )

1988: Elena Nikolaevna ( Children of the Sun )

1991: Elin ( night, mother of the day )

1993: Frau von Cypressenburg ( The Talisman )

Awards

1979: Josef Kainz Medal of the City of Vienna
1984: Robert Musil Medal from the City of Klagenfurt and the Robert Musil Archive
1986: Chamber actress
2000: Gold Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna
2007: Billy Wilder Award
2009: Honorary award from the Austrian book trade for tolerance in thought and action
2014: Great Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Federal State of Lower Austria
2019: Romy award 2019 - Platinum Romy for life's work

reception

Movie

Sigrid Faltin : Erika Pluhar - Nevertheless. My life . Documentary, 2014

literature

Rita Kohlmaier: Erika Pluhar . In: Women 70+ Cool. Rebellious. Wise. Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-945543-76-4 , pp. 46–51.
Alice Schwarzer : Erika Pluhar, actress. In: Alice Schwarzer: Why you? Female rebels. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-596-10838-1 , pp. 191-204.