Maria Urban

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Maria Urban (born April 27, 1930 in Vienna ; † November 17, 2019 there ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

Maria Urban came from a family of actors. Her mother appeared at the theater in der Josefstadt . Her father was the son of a major industrialist. She was the youngest child in the family; she had two older brothers. After her parents divorced, she first lived in the country with her father, who ran a large estate. At the beginning of the Second World War , when her father was called up for military service, she came to Leipzig in 1940 , where her mother was employed as an actress; from this point on she grew up in the theater environment. Her two older brothers died in the war.

During the Second World War she returned from Leipzig to Vienna, where her grandparents lived and with whom she grew up. She attended the Haizingergasse grammar school in the 18th district of Währing in Vienna . In 1948 she passed the Matura . After an entrance examination at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, it was accepted from over 100 applicants in the same year. Her fellow students included Otto Schenk , Louise Martini , Lotte Ledl and Rudolf Melichar . The castle actor Fred Liewehr was one of her teachers ; with him she received the speech training for the classical theater roles. She stayed at the Reinhardt Seminar for two years (1948–1950).

From 1950 she had her first engagements at Viennese cellar theaters and small Viennese theaters; During this time she worked with Carl Merz and Helmut Qualtinger , among others . At the Small Theater in the Konzerthaus she played in Reigen 51 under the direction of Trude Pöschl. Variations on a theme by Arthur Schnitzler . This was followed by a brief engagement at the Exl stage in Innsbruck . She was then engaged to the Comedy Basel ; there she played Luise Miller in Kabale und Liebe, directed by Leon Epp . In 1956, at the invitation of Leon Epp, director at the Vienna Volkstheater from 1952 to 1968, she was engaged as a permanent member of the ensemble at the Vienna Volkstheater. She made her debut there in 1956 with Irina in Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters . In 1963 she appeared there in the Austrian premiere of Rolf Hochhuth's play Der Stellvertreter . In 1972 she played Marianne in Maß für Maß at the Vienna Volkstheater .

Urban played in the ensemble of the Vienna Volkstheater for over 50 years; she appeared there in over 110 roles. In 1990 she gave up her permanent engagement at the Vienna Volkstheater; However, she could still be seen as a guest on the stage of the Vienna Volkstheater. In the 2013/2014 season she played the role of elderly Olga in the play Wie im Himmel based on the film by Kay Pollak at the Vienna Volkstheater .

She made guest appearances in Basel , Berlin , at the Salzburg Festival (August 1965 as Blonde in Faust II ) and at the Bregenz Festival .

From 2008 she appeared regularly at the Theater in der Josefstadt . In the 2008/2009 season she played the old servant LIna in a stage version of the novel Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann , presented by John von Düffel ; her partners were Joachim Bissmeier (consul), Else Ludwig (consul), Sona MacDonald (Gerda) and Gabriel Barylli (Thomas Buddenbrook). In 2010 she played the wife of the expelled Jewish high school professor König in the play Jedem his own by Peter Turrini and Silke Hassler . In the 2015/16 season she played the role of Berta in Arthur Schnitzler's play Anatol , as an old woman sitting in a wheelchair at the Theater in der Josefstadt .

Urban played numerous roles in film and television productions. In 1959 she had a supporting role in the American film Die Reise ; she played the young baroness Gisela von Rachlitz. Urban has starred in films, television films, television plays, and television series repeatedly throughout her career. However, the focus of her artistic work has always been the theater.

In 1972 she was seen in an Austrian-German television production of the play Libussa by Franz Grillparzer ; she played the role of Dobromila under the direction of Karl Paryla . in the Austrian television film Der Junge Freud (1976) she played Mathilde Fee Breuer, the wife of the Viennese doctor Josef Breuer, directed by Axel Corti . In 1977 she played, again under the direction of Axel Corti, a leading role in the Austrian television film Der Bauer und der Millionär ; she was Franziska, the wife of the farmer Josef Strassmeier ( Bruno Dallansky ), the main male character in the film.

In the comedy Dinner for Two (2003) by Xaver Schwarzenberger with Marianne Mendt and Gisela Schneeberger in the leading roles, Maria Urban played an old woman in community housing; she was the neighbor of Dr. Merlet ( Wolfgang Gasser ). In the thriller Murder on Prescription (2006) she was the mother Trapp, the mother of the doctor and specialist in Alzheimer's research Dr. Katharina Trapp ( Ulrike Krumbiegel ). In the television film Glücksbringer (2011) she played the dementia-sick mother of the female main character, the jeweler Agnes Wieland ( Christiane Hörbiger ).

Urban has appeared several times in Viennese crime scenes. In Tatort: ​​Frauenmord (1973) she played the role of Klara Hoess, who is pressured by her brother-in-law not to make a statement to the police, in Tatort: ​​Exitus (2008) the role of old Vera Wipplinger, who is in the hospital . In Tatort: ​​Gier (first broadcast: June 2015) she played the old woman Rauter, the mother of the section head Rauter, the head of the inspectors Eisner and Fellner.

Urban also had episode roles a. a. in the series Hallo - Hotel Sacher… Porter! (1974), Eurocops (1988), Four Women and One Death (2005), Der Winzerkönig (2010; as Mrs. Wöblinger), SOKO Donau (2009 and 2010; as Hilde Nowak, grandmother of Lieutenant Colonel Helmuth Nowak) and Schnell determined (2011 ).

Maria Urban also made radio recordings and was active as a spokesperson for radio plays , for example with Rosa Riedl Schutzgespenst (1997) by Christine Nöstlinger , Mein Vater was Siebenbürger (2007) by Wolfgang Martin Roth , Joseph Fouché by Otto M. Zykan (2007; as Eva 2 ) and undress yes, wear also (2011; as Mrs. Miller) by Alois Hotschnig .

Urban was married to the Viennese theater critic Paul Blaha , who was director of the Volkstheater from 1979 to 1987. Blaha died in 2002. Maria Urban last lived in Vienna.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

  • Christine Nöstlinger: Rosa Riedl's protective ghost . Voiced by Maria Urban. Jumbo Verlag / ORF. ISBN 978-3-8337-1731-4 .
  • Wolfgang Martin Roth: My father was Transylvanian . Radio play. ORF 2007.
  • Otto M. Zykan: Joseph Fouché . Radio play. ORF 2007.
  • Alois Hotschnig: Undress, yes, put on too . Radio play. ORF 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Maria Urban ( Memento from June 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Images of people: "Just no theater!" The actress Maria Urban . orf.at of April 25, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
  2. ^ Viennese actress Maria Urban died at the age of 89. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Maria Urban short biography. Jumbo Publishing House. Retrieved June 8, 2015
  4. ↑ dissonant sound of spheres ; Performance review in: Wiener Zeitung, November 8, 2013. Accessed June 8, 2015
  5. ↑ Buddenbrooks ; Cast list. Press kit Theater in der Josefstadt. 2008/2009 season. Retrieved June 8, 2015
  6. ^ Josefstadt: Death march on the theater stage ; Performance review in: Die Presse, March 27, 2010. Accessed June 8, 2015
  7. ↑ "Better a fool than a Jew" ; Performance review in: Wiener Zeitung, March 26, 2010. Accessed June 8, 2015
  8. ^ Theater in der Josefstadt: Anatol in the stranglehold of women ; Performance review in: Die Presse, December 18, 2015. Accessed May 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Urban, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 2019
Place of death Vienna