Libgart Black

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Libgart Schwarz (born January 25, 1941 in Sankt Veit an der Glan , Carinthia ) is an Austrian actress .

Life

Libgart Schwarz began training as an actor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna in the 1960s. In 1965 she met Peter Handke . The couple married in 1967. Their daughter Amina (* 1969) was born. The spouses separated in 1974 - the daughter mostly stayed with the father. The divorce followed in 1994.

She rose to the top league of theater actors when Peter Stein engaged her in 1976 at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer . The productions with Peter Stein and the other star director of the Schaubühne at that time, Luc Bondy , brought her the greatest successes. Even after Stein left, she stayed at the Schaubühne. The most important director for her in the 1990s was Andrea Breth . After they left the Schaubühne, Libgart Schwarz also left Berlin and went to the Vienna Burgtheater , where she was part of the ensemble.

Libgart Schwarz was rarely available for film and television. In 1970 she played in Summer in the City of Wim Wenders the female lead. Wenders engaged her again for the Peter Handke film adaptation of the novel The Fear of the Goalie at the Penalty Kick in 1972. The other film works were mostly filmed theater works. In 1991 she stood in front of the camera for Werner Schroeter in his Ingeborg Bachmann film adaptation of the novel Malina , alongside Isabelle Huppert and Mathieu Carrière . In 2009 she played Josefine Stolz in Live is Life - Die Spätzünder .

In 2001 she was nominated for the Nestroy Theater Prize for best supporting role . For several years, Schwarz was in a relationship with the literary scholar Burghard Damerau (1961–2002) in Berlin, whose poems she recited several times.

Filmography

Radio plays

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/geb-1961/370306.html , last accessed on August 10, 2020