Roswitha Posselt

Roswitha Posselt (born on May 15, 1915 ; died on January 11, 1987 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actress who became known for her participation in the legendary Jedermann productions at the Salzburg Festival .

Life

Roswitha Posselt was a student of the Viennese music teacher Richard Maux . From 1936 to 1965 she played the debt servant's wife in the Salzburger Jedermann am Domplatz.

Among them was the Jedermann production from 1949 with Attila Hörbiger in the title role, directed by Helene Thimig-Reinhardt . A live recording of the performance was later published on the ORFEO label in the “Salzburg Festival Documents” series. In 1958 Posselt took part in the first television broadcast of Jedermann with Ernst Deutsch and Will Quadflieg . This performance was also recorded as a speech record and published on the Deutsche Grammophon label. The production from 1965, in which Posselt took part alongside Paula Wessely , was directed by Gottfried Reinhardt filmed.

Other roles at the Salzburg Festival from 1963 to 1965 were Die Not and Maria Aegyptiaca in Faust. The second part of tragedy and in 1971 the decision-maker in Hofmannsthal's incorruptible . In 1961 and 1967 she also appeared at the Vienna Burgtheater . In 1956, she played Ella Rentheim in Henrik Ibsen's drama John Gabriel Borkman at the Schauspielhaus Graz . At the Bregenz Festival in 1961 she was seen as Gora in Grillparzer's Das goldene Vlies .

She worked as a radio play speaker in the SFB production Der Richter von Zalamea (1958) and as an Italian in Stefan Zweig's Amok (1970) in the adaptation of Hans Krendlesberger . Between 1962 and 1971 she took on supporting roles in film and television films, most recently as Miss Watson in the TV comedy The Seven Slaps in the Face, directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner .

Roswitha Posselt died in January 1987 "at the age of 72" in Vienna.

Web links

• Roswitha Posselt in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical Index for Theater, Dance and Music / Biographical Index for Theater, Dance and Music . Berlin publishing house. Arno Spitz GmbH. 1997. Page 1452. ISBN 978-3-87061-479-9
2. ^ Maux, Richard , in: Austria-Forum, Biografien
3. ↑ About the figure Schuldknecht's wife , online literary dictionary, Saarland University
4. ^ Gisela Prossnitz: Jedermann: from Moissi to Simonischek , Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum, 2004 - Salzburg Festival, pp. 124, 127, 128
5. ^ Edda Fuhrich, Gisela Prossnitz, Fritz Fuhrich: Jedermann in Europa, from the Middle Ages to the present: an exhibition at the Max Reinhardt Research and Memorial Center, Salzburg, Reischl-Druck 1979, pp. 43 and 110
6. ^ Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Max Reinhardt, Edda Leisler, Gisela Prossnitz: Jedermann: the game of dying of the rich man and Max Reinhardt's productions, S. Fischer Verlag 1973, p. 209
7. ↑ Salzburg Festival Documents ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ ORF III presents a themed evening on the legendary Jedermann ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ORF program, July 20, 2012 
9. ↑ DNB
10. ↑ Performances with Roswitha Posselt at the Salzburg Festival from 1949 to 1971
11. ^ United Stages Graz. John Gabriel Borkman Cast; Premiere: June 17, 1956, in: National Library of Norway
12. ^ The golden fleece by Franz Grillparzer , The history of the Bregenz Festival
13. ↑ http://www.kritierter.de/Hans_Krendlesberger/Amok
14. ↑ The Seven Slaps (1971) cast
15. ↑ Die Bühne , Issues 340-351, Verlag Austria International, 1987, p. 46 ( available from Google Books )