Rosa Albach-Retty

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Rosa Albach-Retty

Rosa Albach-Retty , née Rosa Clara Franziska Helene Retty (born December 26, 1874 in Hanau , Hesse ; † August 26, 1980 in Baden , Lower Austria ), was an Austrian actress .

Life

She belongs to a traditional dynasty of actors . Rosa's father was the actor and director Rudolf Retty , from whom she was also trained. Since 1890 she played in theaters in Berlin. She first worked at the Berlin Lessing Theater , where she celebrated her first successes in the title role of Minna von Barnhelm . Even trouser roles ( Little Lord Fauntleroy , The Merchant of Venice ) were among her repertoire. From 1895 to 1903 she was engaged at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna and then at the Vienna Burgtheater . There she received the title of court actress in 1905. In 1928 she became an honorary member of the Burgtheater, and in 1958 she gave her farewell performance.

Grave of the Albach-Retty family in Vienna's central cemetery

She made her film debut in 1930 in the film Money on the Street . Her descendants were also famous actors. Her son from her marriage to the kuk -offizier Karl Albach was the actor Wolf Albach-Retty . His daughter - her granddaughter - was the actress Romy Schneider . Rosa Albach-Retty died in 1980 at the age of 105 after she had published her autobiography So Short Are 100 Years for the hundredth birthday . Her grave of honor and that of her son is located in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32 C, number 50).

Rosa Albach-Retty's closeness to the Nazi regime is documented . The annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938 was euphorically commented on in the Kleine Volks-Zeitung . Rosa Albach-Retty's membership in the NSDAP has not been proven, but she and her husband were supporting members of the SS . As a great public favorite and avowed admirer of Hitler, Rosa Albach-Retty was courted by Nazi cultural policy and included in the so-called “ God-gifted list ” of the National Socialists. None of this did any harm to Albach-Retty's esteem after the end of the Nazi regime, as the awards she received after 1945 prove. Even a Viennese community building was named after her: the Rosa-Albach-Retty-Hof in the 19th district , built in the 1970s .

Filmography (selection)

Movie

  • 1979: Klaus Peter Dencker in conversation with Rosa Albach-Retty. A production by Saarland Radio / Television (45 minutes)

Awards

literature

  • Rosa Albach-Retty: A hundred years are that short. Memories. Recorded by Gertrud Svoboda-Srncik. Herbig, Munich Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7766-0864-1
  • Robert Kittler: Rosa Albach-Retty. A life for the theater. Diss. Univ. Vienna, Vienna 1958
  • Oliver Rathkolb: Faithful to the leader and God's grace. Artist elite in the Third Reich. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-215-07490-7
  • Robert Teichl: Austrians of the present. Lexicon of creative and creative contemporaries. Publishing house of the Austrian State Printing House, Vienna 1951
  • Jürgen Trimborn: Romy and her family . Droemer, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-426-27451-5

Web links

Commons : Rosa Albach-Retty  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Albach-Retty, Rosa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Retty, Rosa Clara Franziska Helene (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1980
Place of death Baden near Vienna , Lower Austria