Käthe Gold
Käthe Gold , actually Katharina Stephanie Gold (born February 11, 1907 in Vienna ; † October 11, 1997 there ), was an Austrian actress.
Live and act
The daughter of a Viennese locksmith's assistant completed an acting training at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts Vienna . However, she made her debut as a child in Puccini's Madame Butterfly at the Vienna State Opera . Her first appearance as a "real" actress was in 1926 as Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew . Until 1927 she was engaged at the Stadttheater Bern . Further stations were the Lobe Theater in Breslau and the Münchner Kammerspiele from 1928 to 1931 , where she was engaged until 1935. In 1932 she came to Berlin, where she stayed until 1944. Here she had her breakthrough and celebrated her greatest successes at the State Theater : as Gretchen in Goethe's Faust , as Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet and as Nora in Ibsen's Nora or Ein Puppenheim . In 1944 Käthe Gold moved to Zurich, in 1947 to Vienna at the Burgtheater and Akademietheater, where she also enjoyed great success.
In the film she acted as Alkmene in Amphitryon - Happiness Comes from the Clouds (1935), Das Fräulein von Barnhelm (1940) and after the war in Wolfgang Staudte's Rose Bernd (1957) and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Karl May (1974). In 1985 she said goodbye to the stage.
Käthe Gold died in 1997 at the age of 90. She was buried in the Sieveringer Friedhof (group 29, row 5, number 9) in Vienna.
In 2016, the Käthe-Gold-Weg in Vienna- Döbling (19th district) was named after her.
Theater and filmography
- 1935: Amphitryon - happiness comes from the clouds
- 1935: The Nurse King
- 1937: Different world
- 1939: The uncanny wishes
- 1940: The Fraulein von Barnhelm
- 1943: Between night and morning / eyes of love
- 1950: The year of the Lord / The Wallner boy
- 1952: Palace Hotel
- 1955: Nora
- 1957: Rose Bernd
- 1961: The farmer as a millionaire
- 1962: Portrait of a Madonna
- 1962: Anatol
- 1968: The death of the traveling salesman
- 1971: The forest
- 1973: The Commissioner - Black Triangle
- 1974: The Commissioner - A Share in Life
- 1974: Karl May
- 1976: Johann and Anna
- 1979: evening light
- 1980: The journey to the millennial kingdom
- 1984: To Moscow and back
- 1988: Derrick - A series of beautiful days
Awards
- 1936: State actress in Berlin
- 1952: Chamber actress in Vienna
- 1960: Hans Reinhart-Ring
- 1963: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
- 1965: Josef Kainz Medal for the portrayal of Frau Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor in the Burgtheater
- 1967: Gold Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna
- 1977: Great Silver Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 1982: Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna
- 1988: Filmband in Gold for many years of excellent work in German film
literature
- Thomas Blubacher : Käthe Gold . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 732.
Web links
- Literature by and about Käthe Gold in the catalog of the German National Library
- Käthe Gold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Käthe Gold at filmportal.de
- Pictures by Käthe Gold In: Virtual History
- Entry on Käthe Gold in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Andrea Weibel: Gold, Käthe. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Remarks
- ↑ The date of death October 11, 1997 name z. B. IMDb, the Austria Lexicon from aeiou, the dtv Theater Lexicon as well as Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz: Lexicon of German film and TV stars . The date of death November 10, 1997 can be found in Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of the film and Ulrich Liebe (Ed.): From Adorf to Ziemann. The Bibliography of Actor Biographies 1900-2000 . However, in the October 20, 1997 edition of Spiegel there is a reference that Käthe Gold died on October 11 in Vienna.
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Käthe Gold
- ↑ a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gold, Kathe |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gold, Katharina Stephanie |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1907 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1997 |
Place of death | Vienna |