Franziska Kohlund

Franziska Elisabeth Kohlund (born May 5, 1947 in Basel ; † September 16, 2014 in Männedorf ) was a Swiss actress with character roles in film, television and theater. She was considered a versatile theater actress and also played in cinema productions such as Dällebach Kari and Teddy Bear . Since the 1970s she has also worked as a theater director on well-known Swiss theaters.

Life

Franziska Kohlund was born on May 5, 1947 as the daughter of the actress Margrit Winter and the theater director Erwin Kohlund in Basel. She trained as an actor from 1968 to 1971 at the Zurich stage studio . She got her first permanent engagement from 1971 to 1974 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich . Between 1974 and 1978 she played at the Bad Hersfeld Festival, among others . In the 1970s and 1980s, she performed at various German theaters, including the Theater Baden-Baden or at the Theater Trier . After an assistant director to her father in 1976, she then directed as a director herself. This was followed by numerous productions for the Volkstheater and for professional stages such as the Theater Kanton Zurich , the Landscape Theater Ballenberg and the Theater Hechtplatz in Zurich. In 1984 she founded the independent theater group Il Soggetto in Stäfa with her partner, the director and dramaturge Buschi Luginbühl , in which her parents were also creatively involved.

In the 1970s she then turned briefly to television for two roles. She first appeared in the 1973 television film A Swiss as ordered by Ludwig Cremer , and a year later she was seen in an episode of the TV series Engadiner Bilderbogen . She played her two cinema roles in 1970 under the direction of Kurt Früh and in 1983 in the comedy Teddy Bär by Rolf Lyssy .

Kohlund lived in Stäfa. On September 16, 2014, she died at the age of 67 after a long illness in Männedorf. She was the granddaughter of the actor, director, set designer and theater director Ekkehard Kohlund . Her younger brother is the actor Christian Kohlund (* 1950).

Awards

• 1969: Emil Oprecht Prize

Filmography

movie theater

• 1970: Dällebach Kari
• 1983: Teddy Bear

watch TV

• 1973: A Swiss as ordered (TV film)
• 1974: Engadiner Bilderbogen (TV series, 1 episode)

literature

• Franziska Kohlund in: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) .: Hitz-Kozub, Volume 5. , edited by Rudolf Vierhaus, Walter de Gruyter, 2006, page 826
• Jean Grädel : Franziska Kohlund . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1015 f.

Web links

• Franziska Kohlund in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Franziska Kohlund is dead. In: Tages-Anzeiger from September 16, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Death: Kohlund, Franziska Elisabeth , official publication of the municipality of Stäfa, September 19, 2014, accessed on September 22, 2014.
2. ^ Jean Grädel: Franziska Kohlund . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1015 f.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Stäfa, 23 September 2014
4. ↑ Swiss actress Franziska Kohlund is dead. In: Kleine Zeitung of September 16, 2014 (accessed on April 21, 2020).
5. ↑ Franziska Kohlund has died. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of September 17, 2014 (accessed on September 18, 2014).