Hansi Knoteck

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Johanna "Hansi" Knoteck , actually Johanna Gnoteck (born March 2, 1914 in Vienna ; † February 23, 2014 in Eggstätt ), was an Austrian film and theater actress .

Life

Knoteck was born the daughter of an insurance director. She was the great niece of the Viennese castle actress Katharina Schratt . At the age of 14 she entered a well-known Viennese ballet school and then studied for three years at the Vienna Academy for Music and Performing Arts . In Marienbad she made her stage debut in the play Junge Liebe . From Mährisch-Ostrau she was committed to the Leipzig Old Theater , where she was able to celebrate a particular success in Kamarè's play The Young Baron Neuhaus . Even after she was hired by the UFA , she appeared regularly in the theater. She was the naive puppy in Billinger's Silent Guests , Gozzi's Turandot , was Rautenderlein and Hannele and Gretchen.

Knoteck began her film career at the age of 20 after her film debut in 1934 with a leading role in the Ludwig Ganghofer film adaptation of Hubertus Castle . The path emerged as Lien Deyer's successor and Maria Schell's predecessor . Hansi Knoteck was used a total of seven times as an interpreter of Ganghofer's girls and women figures. This type of “little soul” in the homeland films meant that she did not develop into a dramatic actress. As a partner of Adolf Wohlbrück in the film Der Zigeunerbaron (1935), Knoteck suddenly became popular. Her best-known films of the 1930s included Fürst Woronzeff (1934), “Das Mädchen vom Moorhof” (1935), The Silence in the Forest (1937), The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937) at the side of Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann and Waldrausch (1939).

In the war years her film activity decreased. In 1940 she married the actor Viktor Staal (1909–1982). The son Hannes was born in 1942. The Staal family lived in Munich ever since .

After the war, her reputation, which she had with her homeland films, shaped her other roles. Her films from the 1950s included Grenzstation 58 (1950), Der Jagerloisl vom Tegernsee (1951) based on Ludwig Thoma and Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld (1955). In 1974 Hansi Knoteck made a brief comeback as Friedel's mother in the film Der Jäger von Fall . Then she finally withdrew from the film business.

Hansi Knoteck died a few days before her 100th birthday in Eggstätt, Bavaria . Her final resting place is in the Munich North Cemetery (grave no. 64-5-14).

Her husband's tombstone was brought here from Gauting .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hansi Knoteck on steffi-line.de , there with reference to information from Hanns-Georg Rodek .
  2. Hanns-Georg Rodek: She was the really last big Ufa star . In: Die Welt from August 19, 2014 (accessed August 20, 2014).
  3. knerger.de: The grave of Hansi Knoteck