Herta Kravina

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Herta Kravina , real name Herta Keitel (born June 3, 1926 in Vienna ; † before or on November 6, 2015 in Berlin ), was an Austrian actress and voice actress .

Life

Herta Kravina was of Yugoslav descent. She completed her acting training at the Vienna Conservatory . She made her debut as a stage actress in 1946 at the Landestheater Salzburg as a fanatic in Jedermann . She played both the tragic and the comic role subject in her career. She had theater engagements at the Salzburg State Theater (1946), at the Theater in der Josefstadt (1947), at the Wiener Kammerspiele (1947) and from 1948 to 1950 at the Small Theater in the Konzerthaus in Vienna. Kravina then went to Germany for further theater engagements. She was a permanent member of the Hamburger Kammerspiele (1951); there she was initially engaged in the role of the "heroine" and the "youthful salon lady ". Until the mid-1980s she was a permanent member of the Hamburger Kammerspiele. She had other engagements in her early days at the theater in Berlin, including at the Hebbeltheater (1952; as "character player") and at the stands (1953; as "heroine"). From 1954 Kravina played in Berlin at the Schillertheater and at the Schlossparktheater .

Her stage roles included Marie in Woyzeck (1947 in Vienna and on a tour through Western Europe in London , Amsterdam and Zurich ), the title role in the play Medea by Jean Anouilh (Vienna 1948; Berliner Festwochen 1953), the title role in Elektra by Jean Giraudoux (1951; Hamburger Kammerspiele) and the Arrongantia in the magic play Die gefesselte Phantasie by Ferdinand Raimund (1955; Theater am Kurfürstendamm ).

Kravina went on numerous theater tours, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1982/83 season she took on the role of wife and mother Katharina in George Bernard Shaw's play Helden in a production by the Berlin Tourneetheater Greve GmbH. In the 1989/90 season she made guest appearances throughout Germany with the play Immaculate Conception , also with this touring theater . A chalk circle by Rolf Hochhuth and with Goodrich / Hackett's stage version of the diary of Anne Frank .

From the 1960s on, Kravina mainly worked for television . She appeared in numerous television games and television series .

She also worked as a radio spokesperson for the Austrian radio stations Rot-Weiß-Rot Salzburg (from 1946) and Rot-Weiß-Rot Vienna and from 1947 to 1950 at Radio Verkehrs AG (RAVAG). In Germany, Kravina made recordings for the NWDR (1951), the Sender Freies Berlin and RIAS Berlin , each from 1952 onwards. She also worked as a voice actress. She lent her voice to Peggy Lee , Lee Grant and Zsa Zsa Gabor , among others .

Kravina was married to composer Paul Milan in the 1950s . In 1964 she married the actor and voice actor Horst Keitel ; since then she has been called Herta Keitel. She lived with him for many years retired in Lloret de Mar . Kravina and Keitel last lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg , both were found dead in their apartment on November 6, 2015. The police assumed a joint suicide.

Filmography

  • 1961: Heinz Erhardt Festival (TV series episode Adventure in Norfolk )
  • 1962: Heinz Erhardt Festival (TV series, episode A certain Marietta )
  • 1962: Alpine King and Misanthrope (TV movie)
  • 1963: My wife Susanne (TV series, episode every Thursday )
  • 1963: My wife Susanne (TV series, episode Das Hauskonzert )
  • 1966: To Damascus (TV movie)
  • 1970: Percy Stuart (TV series, episode Blossom Anny )
  • 1971: Snow White
  • 1971: The Empress's Courier (TV series, episode coup )
  • 1972: Max Hölz. A German lesson (TV film)
  • 1974: Borderline cases - It happened the day after tomorrow ( Aux frontières du possible. TV series, episode Le cabinet noir )
  • 1974: On behalf of Madame (TV series, episode The Lost One )
  • 1975: On behalf of Madame (TV series, episode The Testament )
  • 1975: Madame Princesse (TV movie)

Synchronized work

theatre

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herta Kravina - actress in: filmportal.de , accessed on July 17, 2012
  2. ^ A b E. Richard, Gerhard Lehrke, Philippe Debionne: Horst Keitel takes his own life with Herta Kravina . Berliner-Kurier.de , November 8, 2015, accessed on November 8, 2015
  3. ↑ Carsten Menkhoff: Claus Wilcke - The Exclusive Interview . (at the bottom) in: tv-nostalgie.de , November 23, 2008, published May 28, 2011, accessed on July 17, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Kravina, Herta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keitel, Herta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress and voice actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH November 2015
Place of death Berlin , Germany