Wolf Albach-Retty

Grave of the Albach-Retty family in Vienna's central cemetery

Wolf Albach-Retty (born May 28, 1906 in Vienna ; † February 21, 1967 there ; born Wolfgang Helmuth Walter Albach ) was an Austrian actor . Actress Romy Schneider comes from her marriage to German actress Magda Schneider .

Life

Wolf Albach-Retty is the son of the court actress Rosa Albach-Retty and the lawyer (lawyer 1914-1929) and former kuk artillery lieutenant of the reserve (farewell 1899) Dr. Karl (Walter) Albach. After studying chemistry for two semesters, he was trained as an actor at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts under Armin Seydelmann . At the age of 20 he played his first role at the Vienna Burgtheater .

He came to film as a young man. He received his first silent film role in 1927. During the National Socialist era , he appeared in love films and music films. In 1937 he married Magda Schneider and also took temporary German citizenship . The two children Rosemarie, called Romy (Schneider) (1938–1982) and Wolf-Dieter (* 1941) came from the marriage. The marriage ended in divorce in 1945 (according to other sources in 1946 or 1949).

Albach-Retty, who became a supporting member of the SS in May 1933 , joined the NSDAP in 1940, two years after the annexation of Austria . In August 1944 he was one of the actors nominated by Joseph Goebbels on the Gottbegnadeten list , which Goebbels considered indispensable for film production, with which Albach-Retty was released from military service.

After the Second World War he was unable to follow up on earlier successes in the changed film landscape and was only occasionally in leading roles ( two in one car ), otherwise often in important supporting roles ( The Obersteiger , as the prince in The Bird Dealer , as a family man in engagement at the Wolfgangsee etc.). In addition to minor supporting roles, he also had a brief appearance in Der Kardinal as Baron Hartmann, a role that he got at the instigation of Romy Schneider and made it possible for father and daughter to appear together in front of the camera. He was also seen again in important roles at the Burgtheater, including in Anatol by Arthur Schnitzler . Albach-Retty was married to the actress Trude Marlen for the second time .

He was initially buried in the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery in Vienna and, after his mother's death, was buried in her grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32 C, number 50). His wife Trude Marlen died in 2005 and was buried next to him. Marlen's twin sister Cecilia Maximiliane Brantley , who died in 1997, also rests in this grave .

Filmography

1927: The rough shirt 1928: A Viennese musician girl 1928: The mysterious mirror 1928: love in May 1929: The thief in the sleeping coupée 1930: The uncle from Sumatra 1930: General Babka 1931: Viennese magic sounds 1931: two hearts and one beat 1932: girls to marry 1932: The black hussar 1932: The beautiful adventure 1932: ... and the Puszta lights up 1933: Child, I look forward to seeing you 1933: Love must be understood 1934: Stories from the Vienna Woods 1934: To be a great lady for once 1934: spring parade 1934: The cat in the sack 1935: The bird dealer 1935: A winter night's dream 1935: Big cleaning 1935: Sylvia and her chauffeur 1936: Rendezvous in Vienna 1936: The doll fairy 1936: Secret of an old house 1937: Favorite of the sailors 1937: The happiest marriage in the world 1937: Millionaires / I would really like to be alone with you 1938: spring air 1938: The jumping jack 1939: Hotel Sacher 1939: love is strictly forbidden 1939: homeland 1939: Mother's love 1939: happiness lives next door 1940: Falstaff in Vienna 1940: Seven years of bad luck 1940: How could you, Veronika 1941: That's how I like you 1941: Dance with the Kaiser 1942: Seven years of happiness 1942: Everything for love 1942: The secret countess 1942: two happy people 1943: Adventure in the Grand Hotel 1943: mask in blue 1943: the white dream 1943: travel acquaintance 1943: Romantic bridal trip 1943: dog days

1944: a man like Maximilian 1945: like a thief in the night 1948: All lies 1949: a bewitching impostor 1949: Dangerous guests 1949: City night 1950: The man who is looking for himself 1950: two in one suit 1950: Czardas of hearts 1951: woe to him who loves! 1951: Innocence in a thousand troubles / The girl from the clothing 1951: Vienna faded away 1951: two in one car 1952: The man in the tub 1952: ideal woman wanted 1952: The Obersteiger 1953: The great Lola 1953: The bird dealer 1954: The sweetest fruits 1954: School for Marital Happiness 1954: Katrin's seven dresses 1955: His daughter is Peter 1955: Your body regiment 1956: KuK field marshal 1956: One heart and one soul / ... and who kisses me? 1956: The voice of longing 1956: Engagement at Wolfgangsee 1957: There in the Wachau 1957: Weather lights around Maria 1957: The Kaiser and the laundress 1958: Girls at risk 1958: You're only young twice 1958: Always the cyclists 1958: My whole heart is full of music 1959: Mr. Josef's last love 1959: Peter, the circus child / On all streets 1959: Girls for the Mambo bar 1959: Hubertus hunt 1960: women in the devil's hands 1960: Hohe Tannen (Köhlerliesel) 1961: The organ builder from St. Marien 1961: Motorists on the move / On the streets of a city 1962: The mail goes off 1962: The Forester Christian 1963: Storm on the Wilder Kaiser (mountain wind) 1963: The Cardinal 1964: The great freestyle 1964: The children 1965: The girl from the Bohemian Forest 1965: The dancer Fanny Elßler 1966: linen from Ireland

Web links

• Wolf Albach-Retty in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Entry on Wolf Albach-Retty in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Wolf Albach-Retty at filmportal.de
• Wolf Albach-Retty at cyranos.ch
• Wolf Albach-Retty at steffi-line.de
• Wolf Albach-Retty in database Find a Grave (English)
• Pictures by Wolf Albach-Retty In: Virtual History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rose Poor-Lima (text), Robert Fuchs (drawings):  Burgtheater magic without the spotlight. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt , No. 204/1940 (LXXIV. Volume), November 3, 1940, p. 31. (Online at ANNO ). .
2. ↑ Fred Heller (1889–1949):  The youngest Burgtheater. In:  Die Bühne , year 1926, October 21, 1926, No. 102/1926 (third year), p. 5. (online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ Article: Legends. Diva with Nazi trauma? In: Der Spiegel from September 15, 2008
4. ↑ Oliver Rathkolb: Faithful to the Führer and God-Grace : Artistic Elites in the Third Reich . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-215-07490-7 , p. 235/236 (and footnote 674, p. 285, source: AdR, Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture. Cardboard box 12. Collective files 1946. ZI. 12 BK / 46).
5. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 12.

Remarks

1. ↑ Albach-Retty became a member of the Burgtheater ensemble on September 1, 1926. Wolf Albach made his stage debut at the Akademietheater as part of a Hermann Bahr evening staged by Hans Brahm . - See: h:  Bahr premieres in the Academy Theater. "Indian Summer" - "The Blessed". Conversation with the director Hans Brahm. In:  Die Bühne , born in 1926, January 14, 1926, No. 62/1926 (third year), p. 28 (online at ANNO ). .