Monika Darlies

Monika Darlies (* 1919 ; † in September 2007 in Vienna ) was an Austrian theater actress who belonged to the ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater for several years .

Life

Darlies learned her trade at the Viennese drama school. One of her first engagements took her to the State Theater in Sibiu . Alongside Margot Göttlinger, Ursula Boya, Lilo Nispel, Max Egmont Stury and Hermann Glaser, she was one of the German-speaking members of the mostly Romanian ensemble. While many members appeared under pseudonyms due to a law that regulated the number of foreign theater professionals, the busy Darlies always played under her real name. She embodied the "Luise Miller" in Schiller's "Kabale und Liebe", the "Gretchen" in Goethe's "Faust" and showed a range from the "12-year-old boy to the vamp to the spirited old lady". At the time of her death, Darlies was the last survivor of this Sibiu ensemble alongside Lilo Nispel (* 1920). She used a tour in August 1944 together with fellow actor Ernst Kraus to flee to Austria. After the Second World War Darlies first occurred at various tour stages like that of Maria Becker , Will Quadflieg and Robert Freitag founded troupe Zurich , for them, for example in 1966 in addition Quadflieg as "Sonja Alexandrovna" in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya played. In addition, she appeared at the Bregenz Festival and in 1962 as "Porzia" in William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice at the Theater für Vorarlberg in Bregenz, before she received an engagement at the renowned Burgtheater in Vienna, to which she remained connected for many years. From 1965 on, she played the groom's mother in Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, alternating with Hedwig Pistorius .

Meanwhile, Darlies was a rare guest in film and television productions. Here she played alongside Maria Landrock in Friedrich Dammann's Aufruhr im Damenstift .

Filmography (selection)

• 1941: Riots in the women's monastery
• 1963: Elektra (TV movie)

Web links

• Monika Darlies in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Remarks

1. ↑ Obituary Monika Darlies in the Transylvanian newspaper dated October 7, 2007
2. ↑ Source: Program booklet of the Zurich Acting Company, spring 1966
3. ↑ Directory of a guest performance by the Burgtheater ensemble at the Bregenz Festival  ( 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.  
4. ↑ Shakespeare Jahrbuch , Volume 98, Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (Ed.), Quelle & Meyer, 1962
5. ↑ Proof on ibsen.net