Anna Kallina
Anna Kallina ( born March 31, 1874 in Vienna, Austria - Hungary, † January 4, 1948 in Vienna, Austria ) was an Austrian actress.
Life
Work at the theater
The daughter of a high-ranking state officials began her stage career still in the 1870s with children's roles ( for example, when Walter Tell, William Tell, and as Karl in Götz von Berlichingen ) at the Burgtheater, she was a regular member since 1888. She took her first big role there on November 2, 1891 the Bertha in The ancestress. From contemporary critics, her acting was praised, they play " course, go without any exaggeration, neither comic nor after the tragic side."
From then saw Anna Kallina both classical and modern pieces. Their most famous roles were the Hanne Scheel in Fuhrmann Henschel, the wife Wolf in The beaver fur, the Viola in Twelfth Night, the regent in Egmont, Gertrude in Hamlet, the Judith in Uriel Acosta, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, the Calpurnia in Julius Caesar and the Bride of Messina and Emilia Galotti in the same pieces. In its 50 -year affiliation with the Burgtheater she played in almost all major productions, both classical and modern roles in 1933 until they retired.
Work in film
Since her film debut as Armin Seydel 's wife in the gambling in the Netherlands family and crime drama Adrian Vanderstraaten (1919) saw Anna Kallina several years with main and supporting supporting roles, mostly in the compartment of the aristocratic grande dame, in the Austrian silent film. Among her best-known film roles include the Queen Anne of England in the Victor Hugo adaptation The grinning face, the Frauwallner in the Viennese genre picture of the family with no morals and Princess PRACHs Lehndorff in its only purely German production match for the man.
With the dawn of the talkie era, the elderly artist who also in her debut speech occurred " plead my Quiet Songs" by Willi Forst a princess had given little more before the camera.
Private
Anna Kallina was married to one years older lawyer Egon Witrofsky since 1906. He survived his wife ten years. Both are in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 16E, Row 10, Number 1) buried.