Michaela Scheday

Michaela Scheday (born April 12, 1953 in Vienna ; † April 21, 2004 there ) was an Austrian theater actress and director .

Life

Michaela Scheday graduated from high school in 1971, then lived briefly in Israel until she returned to Vienna in 1972. She studied drama and logistics at the University of Vienna , but interrupted her studies in favor of the Krauss drama school , which she graduated with.

Scheday made her first appearance in 1977 at the Ensemble Theater in Turandot . She played mainly in Viennese theaters, such as the Volkstheater , the Theater am Petersplatz or the Hoftheater Gossan. Her directorial debut in 1988 with The wrong maid of Pierre de Marivaux on St. Peter's Square. Later she also wrote her own pieces such as Shushi Connection and Ein Fest für Frida Kahlo .

In 1997/98 she was a lecturer at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and in October 2002 she was awarded the Golden Merit of the State of Vienna . In 1979 she worked in a supporting role in Tatort: ​​Murder in the Grand Hotel .

Michaela Scheday died of a brain tumor on April 21, 2004, after having collapsed at theater rehearsals in early 2003.

She received an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 87).

Director

• Neo-Nazi (Peter Steffen, Vienna 1995)
• " Big diatribe on the city wall " (Tankred Dorst, Vienna)
• The Broken Jug ( Heinrich von Kleist , Vienna 1997)
• George Dandin or The Shamed Husband ( Molière , Vienna 1998)
• The servant of two masters ( Carlo Goldoni , Vienna 1999)
• A celebration for Frida Kahlo (written and directed, Vienna 1999)
• Faith, love, hope ( Ödön von Horváth , Vienna 2001)
• Leonce and Lena ( Georg Büchner , Vienna 2003)

Web links

• Michaela Scheday in the Internet Movie Database (English)