Susi Nicoletti

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Susi Nicoletti as Smeraldina in The Servant of Two Lords by Carlo Goldoni , Felsenreitschule 1946

Susi Nicoletti , bourgeois Susanne Emilie Luise Adele Habersack (born September 3, 1918 in Munich , † June 5, 2005 in Vienna ), was a German-Austrian actress . Above all, she emerged as a comedian, especially in plays by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy and Ferdinand Raimund .

Youth and career start

Susi Nicoletti's parents were the Italian-born actress Consuela Nicoletti, who was born in Graz, and the shipping company director Ernst Habersack. When she was three years old, the family moved to Amsterdam, where the father had become a director of a bank. Nicoletti was enthusiastic about dance even before starting school; she attended ballet school and courses in modern dance. In 1927 she returned to Munich with her mother, where she made friends with Elisabeth and Michael , the children of the writer Thomas Mann . She attended the St. Anna Lyceum, was a dancer at the Münchner Kammerspiele from the age of 13 and also discovered her passion for the theater. Two years later she finished school and became a solo dancer at the Munich opera stage. After “ Black Friday ” Nicoletti was forced to put aside plans to study; she completed an apprenticeship at Magda Lena's drama school. Before that she had gained experience in the cabaret group Die Weißblaue Drehorgel in the early 1930s . From 1936 to 1940 she played at the Städtische Bühnen Nürnberg. The film discovered her in 1939, she made her debut in black and blonde .

Vienna

In 1940 she went to Vienna, where she was a member of the ensemble until 1992 and an honorary member of the Burgtheater from 1983 . From 1959 to 1961 and from 1992 she worked at the Theater in der Josefstadt .

She made her debut at the Burgtheater in Hermann Bahr's Der Franzl . She played over a hundred roles here. At first she was the epitome of the sweet Viennese girl with temperament and cheeky wit and then developed into a "differentiating character actress with a precise gesture and great possibilities in the comic". The most important pieces include Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt 1941 and 1961, The Talisman 1981/82, The Taming of the Shrew in 1950, The Beaver Fur 1950, Before Sunset 1963/64, Liebelei 1954, Das weite Land 1978, directed by Otto Schenk , Giraudoux ' Amphitryon 38 1955/56, An ideal husband 1961/62 and Bunbury 1976/77.

During her time at the Theater in der Josefstadt she played the world premiere as the seductress and muse in Joshua Sobol's polydrama Alma - A Show biz ans at the end of 1996 in the Purkersdorf Sanatorium, directed by Paulus Manker .

Her most important roles at the Salzburg Festival , in which she participated from 1946, include the viola in Was ihr wollt 1950, Colombine in Goldoni's Der Lügner 1952, Marthe Schwerdtlein in Faust I , directed by Leopold Lindtberg (1961/62, 63 / 64) and Crescence in Der Schwierige 1967/68 with OW Fischer . From 1983 to 1989 she played the mother of everyone .

Teaching and film

In addition, Susi Nicoletti also worked as a dance and acting teacher. From 1954 to 1989 she was full professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna , she gave musical courses and private lessons. Her most successful students include popular artists such as Heidelinde Weis , Pia Douwes , Ute Lemper , Senta Berger , Paulus Manker , Erika Pluhar and Albert Fortell .

Nicoletti played over a hundred roles in film and television, mostly comedies, including Hallo Dienstmann in 1952 with Hans Moser and Paul Hörbiger . Other films that have become famous are Mariandl (1961), Mein Freund Harvey (1970, on television with Heinz Rühmann ) and Comedian Harmonists (1997).

Private life

First she married the filmmaker Ludwig Ptack ("Bibi"), whom she met while filming the film Mutterliebe by Gustav Ucicky . Through her marriage to the Austrian Ptack, Nicoletti received Austrian citizenship in the late 1930s . In 1940 she gave birth to her first child, a daughter. The following year a son followed who worked as an actor in Europe and the USA. The marriage with Ptack was divorced on July 3, 1946. In her second marriage, she was married to the actor, Josefstadt and Burgtheater director Ernst Haeusserman until his death in 1984 .

Nicoletti was considered a great dog lover; her passion began in Holland with the dachshund "Leopold". After Haeusserman's death she had residences in Vienna , Los Angeles and San Diego , where her two children lived. Before that, when she was busy at the Salzburg Festival , she always spent the summer in Niederalm .

Nicoletti died at the age of 86 in the Vienna General Hospital , where she had stayed to recover after a heart operation. Susi Nicoletti rests in the Döblinger Friedhof in Vienna (group 37, row 1, number 24) next to her second husband.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Awards, honors, prizes

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literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Schulze-Reimpell : Nicoletti, Susi . In: Brauneck, Beck: Theaterlexikon 2. 2007, p. 529.
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Susi Nicoletti
  3. ^ Vienna names the street after Maria Lassnig orf.at, April 8, 2016, accessed April 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Nicoletti, Susi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Habersack, Susanne Emilie Luise Adele (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian chamber actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 2005
Place of death Vienna