Kitty Buchhammer
Kitty Buchhammer , also Katherina Buchhammer (born October 29, 1945 in Vienna ; † October 17, 2018 there ; born Herta-Katharina Buchhammer , married Borow-Buchhammer ) was an Austrian actress and theater director .
Live and act
Buchhammer received her training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. After graduating in 1966, she took on various engagements as an actress in Germany and Austria. Under Rainer Werner Fassbinder she played minor roles in the films Faustrecht der Freiheit and Satansbraten as well as in his two-part television film Bolwieser , and in several episodes of the television series Kottan determined by Peter Patzak .
In 1981 she took part in the German premiere of Friederike Roth's piano games at the Volkstheater Wien .
She has been a director since 1977. Among other things, she staged The Nest by Franz Xaver Kroetz in Stella Kadmon's Theater der Courage in Vienna in 1977 . She offered guest productions in Salzburg , Bregenz , Graz and Linz . In 1983 she directed the world premiere of Herbert Achternbusch's Mein Herbert at Steirischer Herbst .
In 1984 she began working at the Augsburg Theater , where she staged Thomas Bernhard's Der Schein trügen (1985), Rolf Hochhuth's Ärztinnen (1986) and Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts (1987). She also worked at the Landestheater Tübingen , in Braunschweig and at the Munich Volkstheater .
Buchhammer gave dramatic lessons at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz , where she headed the performing arts department and was the university's equal opportunities officer.
In her free time she played the tarot variant Königruf , also in tournaments.
literature
- C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon . Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .
Web links
- Kitty Buchhammer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kitty Buchhammer in the Internet Movie Database (English) (as Katherina Buchhammer)
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Sedlaczek : Lore Krainer wins cellar lane tournament in Obritz. Wiener Zeitung , July 26, 2007, accessed on March 2, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buchhammer, Kitty |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Borow-Buchhammer, Herta-Katharina; Buchhammer, Katherina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actress and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th October 2018 |
| Place of death | Vienna |