Judith Holzmeister

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Vienna Central Cemetery - Honorary grave of Judith Holzmeister

Judith Holzmeister (born February 14, 1920 in Innsbruck ; † June 23, 2008 in Baden near Vienna ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

Judith Holzmeister was born in 1920 as the daughter of the architect Clemens Holzmeister . She received her acting training at the Reinhardt Seminar with Tilla Durieux, among others . After engagements as a theater actress at the Landestheater Linz and at the Deutsches Volkstheater , she was a member of the Vienna Burgtheater from 1947 until her retirement in 1985 .

At the Deutsches Volkstheater she made her debut in 1942 with Walter Bruno Iltz as Schiller's Jungfrau von Orléans with OW Fischer as Lionel and there in the same year also played Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm with Inge Konradi as Franziska and in 1943 Schiller's Maria Stuart with Dorothea Neff as Queen Elisabeth.

She started her film career at the age of 19 with the female lead in Luis Trenker's liberation drama The Fire Devil , where her physical beauty was paired with acting skills. She played major roles for decades, especially in the theater. She also took part in two world premieres of plays by the writer Thomas Bernhard . She devoted particular creative power to pieces from antiquity, and at the Burgtheater she was used in them by the director Luca Ronconi . Holzmeister and Ronconi shared a great mutual sympathy, the actress gave a speech at an award ceremony for Ronconi in Taormina in 2003 .

From 1947 to 1955, Holzmeister was married to Curd Juergens , with whom she played in the music film Wiener Mädeln , and from 1959 to Bruno Dallansky .

In 1973 the actress received the Kainz Medal and since 1991 she was the first to wear the Liselotte Schreiner Ring .

During the Second World War and her involvement at the Volkstheater, Holzmeister was one of the artists who rejected National Socialism . The ensemble contributed to the fact that the colleague Dorothea Neff was able to hide a Jewish friend in her apartment for years. In 2005, the ORF documentary “Die Sterne don't go out” dealt with this episode in Holzmeister's life, which was hardly known to the public.

Judith Holzmeister was bid farewell on September 11, 2008 on the Vienna Burgtheaterstiege (Volksgarten side), carried around the house according to tradition and then cremated in the Simmering fire hall , which her father had designed. Her urn is buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery in an honorary grave of the City of Vienna (group 33G, number 40).

In 2016 was the 23rd district of Vienna Liesing of Judith Holzmeister path named after her.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Judith Holzmeister
personal data
SURNAME Holzmeister, Judith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2008
Place of death Baden near Vienna