Ulla Jacobsson
Ulla Mai Jacobsson , also Ulla Jacobsen (born May 23, 1929 in Mölndal , Sweden , † August 20, 1982 in Vienna ) was a Swedish-Austrian stage and film actress .
Professional
After attending commercial school and working as a secretary, Ulla Jacobsson worked as an extra at the Gothenburg City Theater and took acting, fencing, dance and singing lessons. Already her first film role made her almost world-famous. Swedish director Arne Mattsson hired her to star in You Only Danced One Summer (1951) when she was seen naked, which caused quite a stir at the time. The film was by no means designed for erotic voyeurism, but showed young Swedish women in their naturalness and without sexual ulterior motives (see reference at the end of the article). The film received an award for best music in Cannes in 1952 and received the Golden Bear at the 1952 Berlinale a little later . She only danced one summer brought Ulla Jacobsson many international contracts, especially in Germany, but the producers' financial calculations did not work out because the film's success was not repeated.
A role in Ingmar Bergman's The Smile of a Summer Night (1955) also made her famous. However, she only saw a separation of emerging clichés and further professional advancement outside of Sweden, and so she moved to Vienna at the age of 28 , where she got an engagement at the Theater in der Josefstadt . Jacobsson later worked as a freelance actress.
Ulla Jacobsson chose the roles she wanted to play. In addition to Kirk Douglas , she played the leading role in “Heavy Water” (1965), and she was in front of the camera again in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film Faustrecht der Freiheit (1975). She later took on a few roles in TV productions, but then largely withdrew in the late 1970s. The reason for this was not least her incipient illness.
Awards
Ulla Jacobsson received the Bambi in 1956 and the German Film Prize in 1967 for best supporting actress .
Private
Ulla Jacobsson was married three times. This also gave her Austrian citizenship. Her first marriage was with the Viennese engineer Josef Kornfeld, with whom she had a daughter (Ditte). Her second marriage to the Dutch painter Frank Lodeizen (1931–2013) had a son named Martin. After all, she was the third marriage to Hans Winfried Rohsmann (1918–2002), an Austrian professor of ethnology.
Ulla Jacobsson suffered from bone cancer and died on August 20, 1982 in a Viennese hospital. She was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 149).
Filmography (selection)
- 1951: Bärande hav
- 1951: She only danced one summer ( Hon dansade en sommar )
- 1954: Karin Mansdotter ( Karin Månsdotter )
- 1954: ... and love stays forever
- 1954: Mr. Arnes Schatz ( Mr. Arnes penningar )
- 1955: The smile of a summer night ( Sommarnattens leende )
- 1955: The pastor of Kirchfeld
- 1957: The last will be the first
- 1958: restless night
- 1959: And that on Monday morning
- 1959: Under the Terror of the Murderers ( Llegaron dos hombres )
- 1960: In the name of a mother
- 1962: 40 million are looking for a man ( Love is a Ball )
- 1964: Zulu
- 1965: Password "Heavy Water" ( The Heroes of Telemark )
- 1967: Again every year
- 1974: Crime scene - night frost
- 1974: One of us both
- 1975: Freedom of thumb
- 1978: Das Ding (two-part television series)
literature
- Josef Treitl (compilation): Ulla Jacobsson . Collection of innumerable newspaper articles; 1 folder. Vienna 1990, OBV .
- Claudia Beindorf: "She only danced one summer": Construction and reception of stereotypes . Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-932406-05-2 .
- Claudia Beindorf: Terror of the Idyll. The cultural construction of communities in German Heimatfilm and in Swedish Landsbygdsfilm 1930–1960. Nomos-Verl.-Ges., Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7501-9 .
Web links
- Ulla Jacobsson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Ulla Jacobsson
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jacobsson, Ulla |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jacobsson, Ulla Mai (full name); Jacobsen, Ulla |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish-Austrian stage and film actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1929 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mölndal , Sweden |
DATE OF DEATH | 20th August 1982 |
Place of death | Vienna |