Friedl Czepa

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Friedl Czepa (born September 3, 1898 in Amstetten , † June 22, 1973 in Vienna ; born Friederike Pfaffeneder ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

She attended a business school and worked for a bank for two years, then as a kindergarten teacher and X-ray nurse. Eventually she took dance lessons at the Vienna Conservatory and acting lessons from Aurel Nowottny. In 1931 she got an engagement at the Theater in der Josefstadt . Friedl Czepa mainly appeared in the field of salon lady or character actress. Her stage work also took her to Munich and Frankfurt am Main.

From 1934 she took part in movies, where she took on leading roles or important supporting roles in the first few years. After the “ Anschluss ” in 1938, she welcomed the National Socialist rulers at the “referendum” : “It is done. We sincerely thank our beloved leader ”. From 1940 to 1945 she was director of the Vienna City Theater .

After the Second World War, she was initially banned from working as a sympathizer of the Nazi regime, but was soon successful again on the stage in Munich, Vienna and Berlin. While she only performed minor tasks in film, she became popular again as Mama Leitner through the TV series Leitner family .

She was married to the radiologist Alois Czepa, later to the director Hans Schott-Schöbinger and then to the actor Rolf Wanka . Her grave is in the local cemetery in Vienna- Stammersdorf (part A, row 8, number 84). Grave abandoned and reassigned.

Filmography

  • 1934: Everything for the company
  • 1935: episode
  • 1935: The Emperor's candlesticks
  • 1936: Confetti (Confetti)
  • 1936: Opernring / In the Sunshine
  • 1936: Flowers from Nice
  • 1936: inheritance of millions
  • 1937: Millionaires / I would really like to be alone with you
  • 1937: The bat
  • 1938: address unknown
  • 1939: Immortal Waltz
  • 1940: Beates Honeymoon / Strange Honeymoon
  • 1940: The easy girl

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Individual evidence

  1. According to the Große Bayerische Biographische Enzyklopädie, KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11460-5 , the year of birth is 1908.
  2. ^ Viennese artists on April 10th. In:  Neues Wiener Journal , April 7, 1938, p. 13 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwj
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 103.