Julia Costa

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Julia Costa (born April 15, 1926 in Berlin ; † July 18, 2011 at Lake Constance ) was a German actress and voice actress who was best known as a theater actress .

Life

The future state actress Costa completed her professional training with Lilly Ackermann and made her debut as a stage actress in Koblenz in 1943. She achieved her first major fame in the 1950s under Gustav Rudolf Sellner at the Landestheater Darmstadt . Here she played, for example, Esmeralda in Tennessee Williams ' Camino Real , the Princess in Frank Wedekind's King Nicolo or So ist das Leben , Philine in Artur Müller's Francois Cenodoxus and Natascha in Erwin Piscator's stage adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace . In the mid-1950s she moved to the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin under the artistic director Boleslaw Barlog . In 1956 she began her career in Berlin with the role of teacher in the German premiere of the play Unter dem Milchwald by Dylan Thomas . Again under Sellner's direction she starred in William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure , under Leo Mittler in a production of Maxim Gorkis Nachtasyl and under Boleslaw Barlog in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanja .

Costa finally found an artistic home for many years in 1959 at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart , to whose ensemble she belonged for over forty years. Here she was u. a. in Siegfried Bühr's staging of the musical Linie 1 , as Kata in Henning Bock's performance of Die Rote Zora und seine Gang as well as in the German premiere of Gert Jonke's Insectarium .

In addition, Costa worked extensively as a radio spokesperson. She performed numerous classic stage roles for radio play adaptations such as Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing , Leni in Franz Kafka's Trial , Edna in Fred von Hoerschelmann's ship Esperanza , Natascha in Chekhova Drei Schwestern and belonged to the ensemble of the third season as Helga Schneider the Hesselbach radio family in Hessen . In addition, she lent her voice as a voice actress, among others, Jean Seberg in Bonjour Tristesse , Diane Varsi in Der Zwang zum Bad and Joanne Woodward in Fenster ohne Curtain .

Costa was rarely seen in film and television productions. Here she was mainly seen in the 1960s in television adaptations of literary works and stage sets, such as in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters directed by Rudolf Noelte , Isaak Babels Marija directed by Peter Palitzsch and in the title role of Goethe's Stella directed by Heinz Schirk .

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Filmography (selection)

  • 1966: three sisters
  • 1966: Stella
  • 1969: Marija

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1953: Under the green earth
  • 1960: The Trial (SDR)
  • 1961: The Last Days of Lisbon (SDR)
  • 1961: The Voice from the Grave (SDR)
  • 1961: Hesselbach GmbH (HR)
  • 1961: Dark inheritance, deep bayou
  • 1962: The Greenfield Case (SDR)
  • 1962: Buttons (NDR, after Ilse Aichinger )
  • 1962: A strict gentleman (SWF, after Ingmar Bergman )
  • 1964: Much Ado About Nothing (SDR)
  • 1964: The Esperanza Ship (1964)
  • 1967: Dangerous Honeymoon (SDR)
  • 1969: The Apollo of Bellac (SDR)
  • 1971: Three Sisters (BR)
  • 1978: return trip (to Dylan Thomas )
  • 1979: Image of Innocence (SDR)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Actress Julia Costa is dead , in: Eßlinger Zeitung of July 21, 2011, accessed on January 8, 2015
  2. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, Volume 108, Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Anerbeiger (Ed.), Volume 108 (2000), Verlag FA Günther & Sohn, p. 492
  3. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, Volume 108, p. 848
  4. ^ Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 105.
  5. ↑ Theaterkompass.de from July 20, 2011 ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterkompass.de
personal data
SURNAME Costa, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 2011
Place of death Stuttgart