Irmgard Schati

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Irmgard Schati , nee Irmgard Pfniss (born December 8, 1921 in Timișoara ( German  Timişoara ); † January 17, 1992 in Nuremberg ) was an actress at the German State Theater Timişoara from 1953 to 1983 .

Live and act

After Irmgard Pfniss graduated from high school in Timișoara (1931-1935), she began to study music and singing at the Conservatory in Timișoara (1941-1943). Parallel to her studies, she took private lessons to learn some instruments. From 1943 to 1944 she worked as an actress at the Deutsches Landestheater in Sibiu . Here she met her future husband Rudolf Schati . From 1945 to 1946 Irmgard Schati played at the Romanian operetta theater "Teatrul liric de opereta" in Timișoara, in 1949 she resumed studying at the Timișoara Conservatory, in 1953 she was part of the founding ensemble of the German State Theater Timișoara, where she worked until she retired in 1983 was. As a pensioner she left for the Federal Republic of Germany.

Irmgard Schati was one of the most versatile actresses of the German State Theater Timisoara. She excelled in the cheerful and serious subjects as well as in singing games and operettas. She studied singing for ten years and was trained in art song and opera. At the German State Theater Timişoara, she and Margot Göttlinger took care of voice training and speech training. As an actress, she was one of the theater's top performers in roles such as Princess Eboli in Schiller's Don Carlos or Franziska in Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm .

She made her debut in 1953 at the opening of the German State Theater Timişoara as Contessa in Laubes “Die Karlsschüler”. Other roles were: Anna Walter in Remarque's “The Last Station” (1962), Duchess Josiana in Weisenborn's “The Lost Face” (1966), Farmer Berta in Hans Kehrer's “It's About Marriage” (1966), Raluca Filimon in Victor Eftimius “Der Vagabund” (1966), Adele in “Mamas Liebling” by Virgil Stoenescu , Katharina in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew , in Sebastian's “The Star Without a Name”, in Vishnevsky's “Optimistic Tragedy”.

In the seventies Irmgard Schati preferred to appear in musical performances and comedies, as Josefine in Ternovits and Strasser's “The Forgotten Devil”, as Frau von Erbsenstein in Nestroy's Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt (1974), as grandma in Klaus Eidam's comedy “ Do you need a grandma? ”(1977). Especially in the classic comedies, in those of the popular theater, where musical interludes were essential, the actress was given the opportunity to develop her very wide range of possibilities and talents.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Peter Petri : Biographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums. Th. Breit Verlag, Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
  2. ↑ a b Horst Fassel : The German State Theater Timisoara (1953-2003). From national identity bearer to experimental theater. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3643114136
personal data
SURNAME Schati, Irmgard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfniss, Irmgard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress at the German State Theater Timisoara (1953–1983)
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1992
Place of death Nuremberg