Victoria Trauttmansdorff

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Victoria Trauttmansdorff (born September 8, 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actress . She made a name for herself above all as a long-time member of the Hamburg Thalia Theater ensemble . She also became known to a wide audience through her first major film role in Jan Bonny's feature film Gegenüber (2007).

biography

Victoria Trauttmansdorff was born in Vienna in 1960 and comes from the noble family of Trauttmansdorff . Her father was an antique dealer, her mother, the daughter of a diplomat, came from the Netherlands , grew up in England and attended drama school in Vienna. Trauttmansdorff attended the French school in her hometown. After graduating from high school , she went to London as an au pair girl , where her acting ambitions were sparked when she worked as a ticket teller in a theater. She then began an acting training in Salzburg , which she ended early in favor of a theater engagement at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . After a season she moved to the National Theater Mannheim and later to the Stuttgart Schauspielhaus.

In 1993, director Jürgen Flimm brought Trauttmansdorff to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg , where she has since been a permanent member of the ensemble and has worked several times with directors such as Dimiter Gotscheff , Andreas Kriegenburg , Dea Loher and Michael Thalheimer . She made her debut there with the role of Lady Milford in Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe and that of Gretchen in George Tabori's Mein Kampf . This was followed by mostly small roles in plays by Chekhov , Ferenc Molnár's The Glass Slipper (1996) or the role of Chrysothemis in Elmar Goerden's production of Elektra (1999) based on Hugo von Hofmannsthal .

After a long illness, during which she continued to work as an actress, Trauttmansdorff reconsidered her choice of roles (“No more girl, no more romance, just myself”). She mainly appreciates torn and battered types of women and, according to her own statements, “likes to dive into the abyss”. In 2003, the then 43-year-old achieved her greatest success to date with the part of Christine Linde in Stephan Kimmig's Nora production, after she stood in for a younger colleague. The German trade press praised her for her “flippant, totally disaffected (e)” role in the Ibsen play and for “the feat of surpassing Torvald as Nora's opponent.” The jury of the specialist journal Theater heute chose Trauttmansdorff behind Anne Tismer and together with Fritzi Haberlandt in second place in the Actress of the Year category . This was followed by the double role of the morphine player Knobbe and the woman director Hassenreuter in Armin Petras ' Hauptmann tragicomedy Die Ratten (2004), the morphine-addicted wife and mother in Michael Thalheimer's production of Eugene O'Neill's play One Long Day Journey into the Night ( 2005), Erna in Die Presidentinnen (2006) and Gertrud in Thalheimer's Hamlet (2008). “I'm not a hero actress. I've never played the naive, always the ones who have such a crack. Losers who don't know they are. Somehow that has to be my charisma, ” said the Austrian in an interview with Die Welt magazine in 2004 .

In parallel with her work at the theater, the actress, who speaks English, French and Dutch, appeared in film and television from the early 1990s and also took part in author readings. Trauttmansdorff made guest appearances in series such as Die Albertis (2004–2005) or as a pathologist Dr. Dunkel in action in Hamburg (2004–2010) and was seen with supporting roles in films such as Bella Martha (2001), Adam & Eva (2003) and Ghosts (2005). In 2005 she took on a bigger role in Christoph Hochhäusler's feature film Falscher Bekenner (2005) as the worried mother of Constantin von Jascheroff . In 2007 she made her breakthrough as a film actress with the female lead in Jan Bonny's family drama Gegenüber (2007), which is about a couple who, after 20 years of marriage, have lost themselves in isolation, grief and speechlessness. The wife tries to compensate for the breakdown of the marriage by violent outbursts against her husband (played by Matthias Brandt ). Reviewed by Spiegel as a touching drama about anger and tenderness , the achievements of the two main actors were particularly recognized by German critics, and Trauttmansdorff was nominated for the German Film Prize for Best Leading Actress for her first leading role as a punching wife .

In 2009, the television film Schlaflos followed , in which Trauttmansdorff was seen as the MS- sick sister-in-law of the leading actress Senta Berger . In 2010 she played a part in John Osborne's The Entertainer , directed by Christiane Pohle at Thalia in Gaußstrasse . Trauttmansdorff appeared on television as the drunken head doctor's wife in the crime comedy Two for All Cases - A Song for the Murderer , before she took on the lead role of a threatening stalker in an episode of the Bloch television series alongside episode hero Dieter Pfaff . Director Jan Schütte praised her for the great intensity and unpredictability that she gave to the Bloch role. Like almost no other actress, she can " turn a position of weakness into a real threat," judged the taz . “Victoria Trauttmansdorff is almost never seen on television; fallen into this TV serial, the presence of the stage worker now seems all the more overwhelming - and yet extremely functional. ” In the same year, the part of a sect leader and the bitter member of a wellness entrepreneurial family followed in two Tatort episodes ( Faith, Love, Death , Immortal beautiful , both 2010).

Victoria Trauttmansdorff is married to the German director and actor Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger , whom she met during rehearsals for Kasimir and Karoline at the Stuttgart Schauspielhaus. The couple has two daughters. The family lives in the Hamburg district of Uhlenhorst .

Plays (selection)

year Play role stage
1993 cabal and Love Lady Milford Thalia Theater
1996 On the big road TiK
1996 The glass slipper Thalia Theater
1999 Elektra Chrysothemis Thalia Theater
2000 Night shelter Anna Thalia Theater
2000 The child Nurse Thalia Theater
2001 Thalia Vista Social Club Thalia Theater
2001 The third sector Xana Thalia Theater
2001 Ladies of society Edith Potter Thalia Theater
2001 Magazine of happiness II Thalia Theater
2001 Medea Thalia Theater
2002 The Return of Thalia Vista Thalia Theater
2002 Nora Christine Linde Thalia Theater
2002 Not me Mira Thalia Theater
2003 Bernarda Alba's house Angustias Thalia Theater
2003 innocence Mrs. Sugar Thalia Theater
2003 Kassandra Kassandra Thalia Theater
2004 The rats Mrs. Hassenreuter / Mrs. Knobbe Thalia Theater
2004 The optimists Imken Hellinger Thalia Theater
2004 The maids Madam Thalia Theater
2005 The bus (the makings of a saint) jasmine Thalia Theater
2005 One long day's journey into the night Mary Tyrone Thalia Theater
2006 Summer guests Olga Alexeyevna Thalia Theater
2006 Extinction. A disintegration Auction clerk Thalia Theater
2006 The presidents Erna Thalia Theater
2007 Shot panic Evelyn Thalia Theater
2007 School of the unemployed Karla Thalia Theater
2007 Iphigenia Choir member Thalia Theater
2008 Old Ford Escort dark blue Karin Thalia Theater
2008 The presidents Erna Thalia Theater
2008/09 Hamlet Gertrud Thalia Theater
Schauspielhaus Stuttgart
2009 Love and money David's ex Thalia Theater
2009 One long day's journey into the night Mary Tyrone Thalia Theater
2010 The entertainer mother Thalia Theater
2010 Love and money Debbie German Theater Berlin
2010 The Infernal Comedy Confessions of a serial killer German theater
2010 Axolotl Roadkill Mother / Mifti Thalia Theater
2017 Mother Courage and her children Yvette Portier / The Field Captain / A Peasant Woman Thalia Theater

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Heike Gätjen: Abysses? That's what the stage is for. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. October 20, 2007, edition 245/2007, p. 24.
  2. ↑ Profile ( memento of October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at thalia-theater.de, accessed on July 14, 2009 ( Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b Paul Barz: A woman who likes to dive into the abyss . In: Welt am Sonntag. October 14, 2007, edition 41/2007, p. HH10
  4. ↑ a b c Maike Schiller: No romance, just myself! In: Hamburger Abendblatt. October 11, 2003.
  5. ↑ a b Hella Kemper: How do you play an aristocratic slut? In: The world. March 25, 2004.
  6. ↑ Stefan Grund: Mausoleum of Power: Ibsen's “Nora” in Thalia . In: The world. September 16, 2002, edition 216/2002, p. 28.
  7. ↑ Profile at stertz.de (accessed on July 13, 2009)
  8. ↑ Christian Buß: When women beat men. In: Spiegel online . October 12, 2007 (accessed July 14, 2009)
  9. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Like chewing gum under your shoe. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. March 17, 2010, p. 27.
  10. ↑ Christian Buss: "Bloch" in the first: The clinging woman at taz.de , March 17, 2010 (accessed on March 18, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Trauttmansdorff, Victoria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trauttmansdorff, Victoria from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna