Polly Koss

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Polly Koss in 1904

Polly Koss (born August 7, 1880 in Vienna ; † April 15, 1943 there ; also written Koß ) was an Austrian soubrette and actress .

Life

After completing her vocal and acting training at the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music , Polly Koss made her debut at the Summer Theater in Karlovy Vary . From there she was engaged to the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna . As a soubrette, she worked at the Apollo , Carl and Stadttheater Wien, among others . From the 1930s onwards, Koss began a career in film, where she portrayed resolute but compassionate Viennese women. She worked several times with the audience favorites Wolf Albach-Retty and Paul Hörbiger as well as the actors Maria Andergast , Grethe Weiser , Oskar Sima and Theo Lingen . Directors included Géza von Cziffra , Hubert Marischka and Géza von Bolváry .

She was married to the chief director and deputy director of the Theater an der Wien, Emil Guttmann .

She rests next to her husband in the Evangelical Cemetery of the Vienna Central Cemetery (II, 136).

Filmography

  • 1937 Favorite of the sailors
  • 1938 concert in Tyrol
  • 1939 honeymoon for three
  • 1939 The Last Judgment
  • 1939 Happiness lives next door
  • 1942 The secret countess
  • 1943 The white dream

literature

  • Michael Wolf, Klaus Edel: Selected celebrity graves at the Evangelical Cemetery Simmering. An introduction to the history of the cemetery and a guide to selected celebrity graves, published by Evangelischer Presseverband in Österreich, Vienna 2000.
  • Franz Planer: The Yearbook of the Vienna Society 1928. Vienna 1928, p. 128.
  • Wilhelm Kosch , Ingrid Bigler-Marschall (ed.): German Theater Lexicon. KG Saur, Munich 1949ff., P. 1074.
  • Monika Kornberger: Koß (Koss), Polly. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Koss, Polly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koß, Polly (different spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soubrette and actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1943
Place of death Vienna