Gretl Schörg

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Gretl Schörg (born  January 17, 1914 in Vienna ; †  January 4, 2006 there ; actually Margarete Schörg ) was an Austrian operetta singer and actress . Schörg played at the Raimund Theater in Vienna , the Volksoper , the Wiener Kammerspiele and the Theater in der Josefstadt .

Life

Schörg first learned the profession of stenographer . At the age of 23 she won a beauty pageant and was named "Danube Queen". Schörg received his first theater roles in Vienna , Karlsbad , Mährisch-Ostrau and Marienbad . Her voice was discovered with a role in the Singspiel Das Dreimäderlhaus . She sang several operettas at the city theater in Aussig . In 1940 Schörg went to the Metropol Theater in Berlin , where she played Fritzi in Schmidseder's Frauen im Metropol . During the Second World War she played minor film roles; After the war she became known as a film partner of Johannes Heesters and Romy Schneider . In the first half of the 1950s she was heard in several operetta productions by WDR Cologne under Franz Marszalek . She was seldom heard as a speaker in radio plays, such as in 1959 in one of the famous Paul Temple radio plays by Francis Durbridge , namely in Paul Temple and the Spencer case .

For health reasons, Gretl Schörg restricted her activities in the early 1960s and ended her career in the early 1970s. She lived secluded in Vienna, where she died in 2006. Her honorary grave is located in the Hernalser Friedhof (group E, number 129). However, she is registered as Margarete Pfreimer with the Vienna cemetery administration .

In April 2004 she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class .

In 2016, the Gretl-Schörg-Weg was named after her in the 21st district of Floridsdorf in Vienna .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Klaus Rittweger: Gretl Schörg. My theater life . Wagner, Gelnhausen 2004, ISBN 3-935232-22-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mailath: Maria-Lassnig-Straße decided . City hall correspondence of April 8, 2016, accessed April 8, 2016.