Mathilde Danegger

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Mathilde Danegger (right) together with Inge Keller and Dieter Mann (1966)

Mathilde Danegger , actually Mathilde Deutsch (born August 2, 1903 in Vienna , † July 27, 1988 in Berlin ) was an Austrian actress.

life and work

Mathilde Danegger was the daughter of the Austrian character actor and director Josef Danegger (1865–1933), who later worked as a director at the Zurich City Theater. She made an early decision to pursue an artistic career and, like her older brothers Josef Danegger and Theodor Danegger , trained as an actor before making her debut at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1912 . She remained connected to that venue all her life, although from 1919 she was engaged at the Burgtheater in Vienna and a stage in Brno and even fled to Switzerland in 1933 , where she worked at the Zurich Schauspielhaus under Wolfgang Langhoff and at cabaret.

In Switzerland she was one of the founding members of the Free Germany Movement .

In 1947 Danegger returned to Germany and initially found work at the " Hessisches Landestheater " in Wiesbaden (1947–1951), then in the spring of 1951 she went to East Berlin with her family. Between 1951 and 1953 she worked at Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble . For the next twenty years up to 1973, she was one of the defining actors in German theater with her extensive repertoire . Parallel to her theatrical work, from 1960 onwards she also increasingly worked in film and television productions for DEFA and television in the GDR , after having previously stood in front of the camera in Switzerland. She became famous for her portrayal of Frau Holle in the fairy tale film adaptation of the same name by Gottfried Kolditz from 1963 and the television film Mutter Jantschowa from 1968.

Their daughter Karin Lesch , who also worked as an actress, comes from her marriage to Walter Lesch . She was later married to the lecturer Herbert Crüger , who was sentenced to 8 years in prison in 1957 for serious treason, pardoned in 1961 after imprisonment in Bautzen II prison and only rehabilitated in 1990.

Filmography (selection)

Feature films

Television films

Documentaries (speaker)

theatre

Radio plays

Awards

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Danegger, Mathilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES German, Mathilde (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1988
Place of death Berlin