Martha Wallner

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Martha Wallner (born March 28, 1927 in Vienna ; † March 21, 2018 ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

Martha Wallner studied acting at the Vienna Conservatory . She also had acting lessons at the Krauss Drama School in Vienna . After the Second World War she was engaged at the Landestheater Linz until 1948 . In 1949, under the direction of Paul Barnay , she was committed to the Vienna Volkstheater . Her stage roles there included the title role in Rose Bernd and Hanne Schäl in Fuhrmann Henschel . In the 1950s, Wallner also became a member of the Vienna Burgtheater .

Wallner appeared several times in theater performances as part of the Wiener Festwochen . In 1953 she played in the arcade courtyard of the Vienna City Hall in the popular piece Die Ballade vom Lieben Augustin by Peter Preses with music by Robert Stolz ; their partners were Paul Hörbiger and Erik Frey . In 1956 she took part in the Wiener Festwochen premiere of the play Ulla Winblad or Music and Life of Carl Michael Bellman by Carl Zuckmayer in the Vienna Volkstheater. This performance was also recorded by Austrian television and broadcast on television in 1956. From the 1950s Wallner appeared regularly at the Salzburg Festival . From 1956 to 1959, she played the Buhlschaft in Jedermann by Hugo von Hofmannsthal . In 1963 she appeared in a guest appearance by the Burgtheater at the Salzburg Festival in Elektra von Sophokles together with Heidemarie Hatheyer and Sonja Sutter . In 1965 she was seen there in the German-language premiere of the play Alle Reichtümer der Welt by Eugene O'Neill at the side of Marianne Hoppe .

Wallner played a wide-ranging repertoire at the Burgtheater, ranging from the classical to the modern. At the Burgtheater she played the title role in Judith by Friedrich Hebbel and in Six People Looking for an Author by Luigi Pirandello , and in 1958 she gave Gretchen in Adolf Rott's legendary production of Goethe's Faust .

In the 1960s she was seen several times on Austrian and German television in literary films or in television adaptations of theater plays. In 1962 she starred in a television production of the play Anatol by Arthur Schnitzler , directed by Otto Schenk , which WDR Cologne produced in the Rosenhügel film studios in Vienna . She impersonated Ilona in the episode "Wedding Morning". In 1962 she was hired by the Bavarian Radio for a television production of Ludwig Thomas Der Wittiber . In 1963 she took on the female lead in a television version of the play Das Band by August Strindberg in a production by Rudolf Noelte for ZDF .

Martha Wallner was several times as a spokeswoman for radio plays of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation operates, including 1959 in the tower by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 1974 in The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus and 1981 in a child of our time by Odon von Horváth .

From the late 1940s, Wallner also played in a few movies and television films. In 1968 she was, also under the direction of Rudolf Noelte, the Amalia in the film adaptation of the novel Das Schloß by Franz Kafka .

Wallner drew intensive character portraits in 1977 as the Jewish teacher Deborah Singer in Michael Kehlmann's television adaptation of Job by Joseph Roth and as the mother of Strizzis Alfred in the movie Tales from the Vienna Woods by Maximilian Schell .

In recognition of her longstanding work as an actress, Martha Wallner was awarded the title of Chamber Actress. Martha Wallner was married to the Austrian chamber actor Erich Auer . She died a week before her 91st birthday.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chamber actress Martha Wallner died at the age of 90
  2. ↑ a b c Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 753.
  3. ^ "Spiel vom Lieben Augustin" as part of the festival weeks in the Arkadenhof Vienna in retrospect in 1953, homepage of the City of Vienna
  4. ↑ Preparing the stages for the Vienna Festival in Review 1955, Homepage of the City of Vienna
  5. ↑ Ulla Winblad or Music and Life of Carl Michael Bellman Internet presence Fischer Theater Verlage
  6. ^ Ofczarek becomes "Jedermann", Minichmayr "Buhlschaft". Article in: Der Standard from June 16, 2009
  7. ↑ Pathos Critique in: Die Welt 1956
  8. ↑ Salzburg Festival 1965  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Archive 1965@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.salzburgerfestspiele.at  
  9. ↑ Willy Guschlbauer, List of Performances, page 5 Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 217 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guschlbauer.com
  10. ↑ Das Schloss 1968 Official website 3sat
  11. ^ Job 1977 official website 3sat
personal data
SURNAME Wallner, Martha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2018