Gertraud Jesserer

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Gertraud Jesserer (2015)

Gertraud Jesserer (born December 13, 1943 in Vienna ; † December 9, 2021 in Vienna) was an Austrian film and castle actress .

Live and act

Despite her incomplete training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar , which she left in 1959, Jesserer got a small film role alongside Romy Schneider at the age of 15 and made her debut in Molnár's Liliom at the Josefstadt in 1960 , of which she was a member until 1969. After four years at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg (1969 to 1973) she returned to Vienna and was a member of the Burgtheater from 1974 . As an actress, she also appeared in numerous cinema and television films; so among other things as Gerda in the television series Leitner family .

In 1986 she was awarded the title of Chamber Actress, and in 1998 she received the Johann Nestroy Ring .

She was married to the actor Peter Vogel and has two children. She had been separated from Vogel for a long time when he committed suicide in 1978. Her son Nikolas Vogel died in June 1991 as a war correspondent (camera) during a bombing at the airport in Ljubljana (together with Norbert Werner ). Gertraud Jesserer died in December 2021, four days before her 78th birthday, in an apartment fire in Vienna- Alsergrund . Two other people were injured in the fire.

The ORF wrote about them

“The delicate character actress always impressed with her powerful figures. Her repertoire is extensive and includes both comical and serious roles, in Austrian theater literature for example as “Salome Pockerl” in Nestroy's “The Talisman” or… in Feydeau's “Die Dame vom Maxim” as well as in Zuckmayer's “Des Teufels General”. In ... Luc Bondy productions of Horváth's "Figaro lets divorce" ... or Chekhov's "Die Möwe" (Festival co-production in the Akademietheater). "

"Chamber actress Gertraud Jesserer is particularly predestined with her personal flair for Schnitzler , Nestroy , Hofmannsthal and Horváth roles, but also in plays by Wedekind , William Shakespeare , Hauptmann , Hochhuth and Wolfgang Bauer ."

“The actress has also appeared in numerous cinema and television films. In the almost 100 episodes of the "Leitner family" ... in Wolfgang Murnberger's TV film "Taxi für eine Leiche" a cinema owner ... and next year she will be in the ARD strip "A completely normal couple" ... alongside Catherine Deneuve [... ] be visible."

Awards

Filmography

literature

Web links

Commons : Gertraud Jesserer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burgtheatre actress Gertraud Jesserer died in an apartment fire
  2. ↑ ORF : Gertraud Jesserer celebrates 65th birthday ( memento from May 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 13, 2008
  3. ^ City hall correspondence of April 30, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Jesserer, Gertraud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film and castle actress
BIRTH DATE December 13, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Vienna