Victoria of Ballasko

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Viktoria von Ballasko (born January 24, 1909 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † May 10, 1976 in Berlin ; actually Viktoria Maria Franziska Ballasko ) was an Austrian film actress and voice actress .

Life and accomplishments

Viktoria von Ballasko was the daughter of a high official and officer a. D. After high school she attended the Academy for Performing Arts in Vienna.

From 1929 to 1931 she had a stage engagement at the Stadttheater Bern , where she made her debut in Arm like a church mouse by Ladislas Fodor in 1929 and later appeared as Gretchen in Faust . From 1931 to 1932 she played at the Stadttheater Chemnitz , then in Breslau , Vienna, Stuttgart and Munich . From 1935 she appeared at the Berlin Theater on Schiffbauerdamm . From 1946 she played at the Berliner Komödie , here this year as Luise in Kabale und Liebe .

After her first experiences as a voice actress, she came to film in 1935/36 through Luis Trenker . She played her first leading role in the film Pediatrician Dr. Angel with Paul Hörbiger . Further leading roles followed with the films Keyword Machin (1939, with Albert Hehn ), Die Geliebte (1939, with Willy Fritsch ), In the Shadow of the Mountain (1940, with Attila Hörbiger ) and Der Majoratsherr (1943/44, with Willy Birgel ). The blonde, girlish and fragile-looking actress was committed to the type of reserved, self-sacrificing, understanding woman.

After the end of the Second World War , Viktoria worked for a time as a radio and voice actress. Then she wrote the script for the short documentary Grace and Power together with Udo Vietz , before she received offers to act again. In addition to two DEFA productions And again 48 (1948, by Gustav von Wangenheim ) and Our daily bread (1949, by Slatan Dudow ), she played in several West German films before ending her career in the 1950s.

As a dubbing actress she lent her voice to Annabella ( The Girl in the Mask ) and Joan Fontaine ( Suspected , first dubbed version, and Oh, Susanne! ).

Since 1949 she was married to Curt Behrendt, in a previous marriage to the dubbing writer and director Kurt Werther.

The grave of Viktoria von Ballasko is in the cemetery of the Giesensdorf village church in Berlin.

Filmography

literature

  • 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 .
  • Kürschner's biographical theater manual , edited by Herbert A. Frenzel and Hans Joachim Moser, Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Munzinger archive GmbH, Ravensburg: Viktoria von Ballasko - Munzinger biography. In: www.munzinger.de. Retrieved May 2, 2016 .
  2. ^ Stefan Kraft: Viktoria von Ballasko - parish letter of the ev. Parish Petrus-Giesensdorf (November 2002). In: www.petrus-giesensdorf.de. Retrieved May 2, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Ballasko, Viktoria from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ballasko, Viktoria Maria Franziska (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1976
Place of death Berlin