Gusti Huber
Gusti Huber (* July 27, 1914 as Auguste Huber in Wiener Neustadt ; † July 12, 1993 in New York City ) was an Austrian theater and film actress .
Life
Her father was a coal dealer, her mother, née Roszypal, was killed in the bombing of Heinrichhof in March 1945. She received acting lessons from Dr. Rudolf Beer , who also made her debut in Zurich , and Albert Bassermann . Classmates at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts were Hansi Knoteck , Karl Schönböck , Franz Böheim and Hans Holt . She had her first film role in 1935, and two years later she made her big breakthrough in the theater film Unexcused Hour .
In Vienna she first played at the Volkstheater , then in the Josefstadt and finally in 1940 in the Burgtheater , where her inaugural role was Julia.
In Summer Stagione at Gmunden City Theater she fell in the four years his junior, heir of the Vienna Hofjuwelierdynastie Köchert , Gotfrid Köchert . His parents tried to thwart the relationship and sent him to college in America for a year, but the two stayed in touch and Huber called him every few days in Florida. When Austria returned, it was annexed to the German Reich and Köchert was drafted into the Wehrmacht. As often as her work allowed, Huber followed him to Enns , where he was stationed in the dragoon barracks there. When the first child was out, they got married. A second child, Christiane, followed and the family lived on Löwelstrasse behind the Burgtheater; however, the marriage soon ended in divorce. After the end of the war there were no stage engagements or film roles. The now 31-year-old performed in front of American occupation soldiers in the Hotel Traunblick and sang in exchange for food. Here she met the US officer Joseph Besch, whom she married in the town hall of Altmünster. She moved with him to the United States in 1950, where she gave birth to twins.
The best known of her 20 films up to 1945 were Land der Liebe in 1937 , Marguerite: 3 in 1939 and Jenny and the Man in Tails in 1941 . After moving to the USA, she only played occasionally. Her last feature film was The Diary of Anne Frank in 1959 , in which she took on the role of mother Edith Frank, who she had already played in the theater.
Gusti Huber's daughter was Bibiana "Bibi" Besch (1942–1996), who also worked as an actress in many films and was nominated for an Emmy several times for her numerous guest appearances in US television series . Bibi Besch became internationally known for her role in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan .
Gusti Huber's granddaughter and daughter of Bibi Besch is Samantha Mathis (* 1970), who also became an actress (including American Psycho ).
Since Gusti Huber had decreed in her will that she wanted to be buried on Austrian soil, the widower brought her urn to Altmünster in 1993 and scattered the ashes on a meadow on the banks of the Traunsee.
Filmography
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literature
- Julia Danielczyk: Gusti Huber . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , pp. 879 f.
Web links
- Gusti Huber in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures by Gusti Huber In: Virtual History
- Interview with Gusti Huber in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library
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| SURNAME | Huber, Gusti |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huber, Auguste (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian theater and film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiener Neustadt , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1993 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York, United States |