Sonja Sutter
Sonja Ingrid Emilie Hanna Sutter (born January 17, 1931 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † June 2, 2017 in Baden , Lower Austria ) was a German film and theater actress who gained fame primarily through her engagement at the Burgtheater in Vienna .
Life
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Although Sonja Sutter finished the Rudolf Steiner School in Freiburg with only a limited education because of the war, she later studied Greek and Latin. At this time, she made the decision to become an actress.
She made her stage debut in 1950 at the Stadttheater Freiburg , later she worked in Stuttgart , at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus and at the Staatstheater in Munich . In test shots for a home movie directed by and starring Luis Trenker was DEFA - Director Slatan Dudow attention to Sutter and could for his feature film Frauenschicksale involved (1952), in which she played the lead role.
From 1953 onwards, film offers from western Germany followed. Sutter was thus one of the few artists of the time who worked in both German states. However, she had her big breakthrough and the success associated with it with DEFA productions, above all with the literary film adaptation of Lissy from 1957 , a multi-award-winning work that made her notoriety in East Germany. In 1961, with the construction of the Berlin Wall , she lost the opportunity to work on other DEFA films.
In 1959 she followed a call to the Burgtheater in Vienna, to which she was a member for over 40 years. She also appeared regularly at the Salzburg Festival until the early 1990s and took on guest roles at German-speaking theaters such as the Hamburger Schauspielhaus, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, the Zürcher Schauspielhaus and the festivals in Bregenz and Bad Hersfeld .
Sonja Sutter has worked almost exclusively in television productions since the early 1960s - cinema films remained the exception, including the 1976 Bergman film Das Schlangenei , which was also to be Sutter's last film work. Since 1975 she has appeared repeatedly as an episode actress in well-known crime series such as Derrick and Der Alte . In 2005 she was seen for the last time in front of the camera.
She lived in Vienna, was married to a doctor and had a daughter, the actress Carolin Fink .
Her written estate is in the archive of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
Filmography
- 1952: the fate of women
- 1954: My father's horses I. Part Lena and Nicoline
- 1955: The silence in the forest
- 1955: Star with strange feathers
- 1955: The Barrings
- 1956: Midsummer Night
- 1956: Three birches on the heather
- 1957: Minna von Barnhelm (TV movie)
- 1957: Lissy
- 1957: Mr. Cheney's End (TV movie)
- 1957: The Ghost Train (TV movie)
- 1958: Berlin crime scene
- 1958: They all knew each other
- 1958: The Lottery Swede
- 1961: The Fiesco conspiracy in Genoa (TV movie)
- 1961: Everyone
- 1962: Lumpazivagabundus (TV movie)
- 1963: Elektra (TV movie)
- 1963: A village without men (TV movie)
- 1964: Henry VI. (TV movie)
- 1964: The Last Episode (TV Movie)
- 1965: Uncle Vanya - Scenes from Country Life (TV Movie)
- 1968: Dirty Hands (TV movie)
- 1970: Everyman (TV movie)
- 1970: Neighbors (TV movie)
- 1976: We don't give a damn about the pickle king (children's film)
- 1976: The Commissioner : The Hero of the Day (TV series)
- 1976: I want to live
- 1976: The wild duck
- 1978: Heidi , 5 episodes (TV series)
- 1979: The old man: Lippmann is missing (TV series)
- 1980: The White City (TV movie)
- 1981: Tatort: Murder in the Opera (TV series)
- 1982: The old man: You don't hunt dead rags
- 1983: Derrick : Die Tote in der Isar (TV series)
- 1983: Everyman (TV movie)
- 1984: The old man : Help to escape
- 1985: The old man: repeat offender
- 1985: The Marquis of Keith (TV movie)
- 1986: Derrick: The Role of His Life
- 1987: Who Shot Boro ?, 3 episodes (TV series)
- 1988: The old man: letter from a dead man
- 1989: The old man: station baby
- 1990: Wilhelm Tell (TV film)
- 1991: The old man: The court
- 1992: Derrick: Murder in the stairwell
- 1993: The old man: Corruption
- 1995: Love as Printed, 11 episodes (TV series)
- 1995: Derrick: A Man's Heart
- 1998: Derrick: Mama Kaputtke
- 2000: The Old One: The Shadow of Death
- 2003: Schlosshotel Orth : Wrong Traces (TV series)
- 2005: The Old One: The Obituary
Awards
- 1964: Actress of the Year for her interpretation of Maggie in Arthur Miller's After the Fall
- 1970: Awarded the title “ Chamber Actress ” at the Burgtheater Vienna
- 1976: Award for the Kainz Medal
- 2002: Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the State of Vienna
literature
- Ralf Schenk: In front of the camera - fifty actors in Babelsberg. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89487-235-7 .
- Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 .
- Dieter Reimer: DEFA Stars - Legends from Babelsberg. Militzke Verlag, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-86189-717-2 .
Web links
- Sonja Sutter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sonja Sutter at filmportal.de
- Biography on film-zeit.de
- Sonja Sutter archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Castle actress Sonja Sutter died
- ↑ Sonja Sutter Archive inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
- ↑ Town hall correspondence from June 19, 2002 (accessed on May 29, 2010)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sutter, Sonja |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sutter, Sonja Ingrid Emilie Hanna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd June 2017 |
| Place of death | to bathe |