Gusti Wolf

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Gusti Wolf , actually Augusta Wolf , (born April 11, 1912 in Vienna ; † May 5, 2007 there ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

Born in 1912 into a working-class family, Gusti Wolf originally wanted to be a painter. After taking acting lessons with Karl Forest , she made her debut in Krumau at the Deutsche Schaubühne on October 25, 1933 . In 1934 she was Prince York in Richard III. for the first time on the stage of the Vienna Burgtheater , further stations were the Kammerspiele in Vienna in 1934/35 under the direction of Erich Ziegel , the German Theater in Mährisch-Ostrau and from 1936 to 1940 the Munich Kammerspiele with Otto Falckenberg , who became her most important teacher. From 1939 until the theater was closed in 1944, she was employed at the Volksbühne Berlin .

In Stella Kadmon cabaret Zum Lieben Augustin discovered Fritz Grünbaum and Karl Farkas her comic and musical talent. You wrote two revues for Gusti Wolf, which were played over 100 times in the Wiener Kammerspiele .

Since 1946 she has been part of the Burgtheater ensemble , and since 1987 she has been an honorary member there. One of her most successful roles on stage was the puck in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream . She was on stage in the Burgtheater for six decades. Her repertoire ranged from Nestroy to Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal to Horvath and contemporary pieces. She was last on stage in autumn 2006 as a tour guide in the Mozart Year Production Mozartwerke GmbH .

Grave of Gusti Wolf

The portrayal of her grandmother in Anzengruber's The Fourth Commandment at the Berndorfer Festival under the directorship of Felix Dvorak is considered to be her most touching age role .

Since 1937 Gusti Wolf has been standing in front of the film camera again and again, and since the 1960s she has also often worked for television. The most prominent TV characters she embodied included her mother Kottan in the satirical crime series Kottan determined and Rosa in the series Rosa and Rosalind .

In her private life, the actress was in a relationship with the set designer Teo Otto , who died in 1968, for 13 years , whose artistic estate she looked after and made available to the public after his death.

In her memories, Gusti Wolf tells of her life , she last drew the following summary: "I am aware that I have lived my life so far as I have decided to live."

She was an honorary member of the Vienna Burgtheater and held the honorary title of chamber actress and professor. Gusti Wolf died on Saturday, May 5th, 2007 in her hometown of Vienna, a few weeks after she turned 95. She was buried on May 15 in an honorary grave of the City of Vienna in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 33G, No. 38).

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SURNAME Wolf, Gusti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Augusta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chamber actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2007
Place of death Vienna