Alma Seidler
Alma Seidler ( born June 8, 1899 in Leoben, Styria, Austria - Hungary, † December 8, 1977 in Vienna) was an Austrian film and theater actress.
Life and work
The daughter of the professor and kk prime minister Ernst Seidler of Feuchtenegg belonged from 1918 to the ensemble of the Burgtheater in Vienna. Until her death she played here in numerous major and minor roles.
She was, for example, in 1927 the Kathy of Heilbronn and 1935 Hannele in Gerhart Hauptmann's Hannele Ascension, 1938 Suzanne in the great Day or The Marriage of Figaro, 1947 Lenore in Torquato Tasso, 1963 Mathilde von Zahnd in The physicist and looked even 1975 in Luca Ronconi staging of birds. Outside of the Burgtheater she was very rarely employed, especially at the Salzburg Festival.
After 1945 Alma Seidler, who had worked until then almost exclusively as a theater actress appeared quite often in movies on. There they put in supporting roles mostly genteel, dignified women dar. In the theatrical film version of The King of the Alps and the misanthrope she was embodying at the side of Rappelkopf Attila Hörbiger as its severely suffering wife Antonie to see for the last time in a feature film.
The Chamber actress Alma Seidler was awarded the 1959 Joseph Kainz Medal for the presentation of Mrs. Dowey in JM Barrie's stage play The Medals of an old lady. Werner Krauss, who died in 1959, winner of the Iffland -Ring, would leave the ring Alma Seidler, according to his widow, would not by tradition, a woman was excluded from the outset. In 1960 she was made an honorary member of the Burgtheater. Her husband was the director Karl Eidlitz. After her death in 1978 the Alma Seidler - ring was donated as an award for the most important stage artist of German-speaking countries.
In Vienna Liesing ( 23rd district ) of the Alma Seidler - way 2000 was named after her.
Filmography
Awards
- June 8, 1959 Honorary Medal of the capital, Vienna
- 1959 Josef Kainz Medal for the presentation of Mrs. Dowey in JM Barrie's stage play The Medals of an old lady
- 1960 Honorary Member of the Burgtheater
- 1978 Foundation of Alma Seidler - ring as a prize for the most important stage performer in the German speaking