Ulla Jacobsson

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Jacobsson's portrait relief on her gravestone

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 .

Jacobsson's honorary grave in Vienna's central cemetery

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)

literature

Web links

Commons : Ulla Jacobsson  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Ulla Jacobsson
personal data
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