Maria of Ostfelden
Maria von Ostfelden , actually Maria Foitek Edle von Osterfelden (born December 6, 1896 in Stanislau , † April 4, 1971 in Zurich ) was an actress and theater director.
Since Maria's father was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, she spent her childhood in numerous garrison towns. She studied at the University of Vienna and then worked in various theaters, a. a. engaged in Innsbruck , Łódź and Berlin .
After the seizure of power in 1933, she went underground after being politically active in Berlin in the 1920s, including as a feminist and campaigner for female equality. In 1936 Maria von Ostfelden went to Vienna, in 1939 she fled to Zurich. After the Second World War , she studied literature, theater studies and psychology at the University of Zurich .
In 1959 she founded the small theater on Spiegelgasse and in 1963 with Jakob Zweifel, the theater on Winkelwiese , of which she was director until 1970.
literature
- Anna Beck: Maria von Ostfelden . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1360 f.
- Thomas Blubacher : Ostfelden, Maria von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 623 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Silvia Markun (Ed.): Maria von Ostfelden. Theater as an experiment . Verlag Müller, Baden 1996, ISBN 3-907044-16-9 .
Web links
- Michael Gautier: Ostfelden, Maria von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Gautier, Ostfelden, Maria von , in: HLS
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ostfelden, Maria von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Osterfelden, Maria Foitek Noble from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Actress and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ivano-Frankivsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4th 1971 |
| Place of death | Zurich |