Elke Neidhardt
Elke Neidhardt Cordelia AM ( born July 5, 1941 in Ludwigsburg, † November 25, 2013 in Sydney) was a German -born actress and opera director in Australia.
Life and career
Elke Neidhardt graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. She worked as an actress in Vienna ( Theater in der Josefstadt ), Stuttgart and Munich. In 1965 she made her film debut in a Jerry Cotton crime ( murder night in Manhattan). In 1967, she married the Australian television director Christopher Muir and moved to Melbourne, Australia where she still worked as an actress. At the very beginning of their career Australian artist had the blonde with the Part of the German physician Dr. Anna Steiner in one of the most popular TV series in the country, Skippy the bush kangaroo, with which also ran with great success in Germany.
After the divorce in 1977 Elke Neidhardt moved with her son Fabian to Sydney. In the same year she was engaged by the Australian Opera as evening supervisor. Until 1990, she worked in Sydney and at various opera houses in Australia. In 1990 she moved to the Cologne Opera. Since 1997 she has worked as a freelance director mainly in Australia. With the 2007 who died of Alzheimer Australian actor and musician Norman Kaye she joined a decades- lasting close friendship. In 2007, she took on Australian citizenship. On 26 November 2011, Australia Day, her award Member of the Order of Australia was awarded.
Elke Neidhardt died in 2013 at the age of 72 years in Sydney to a brain tumor.
Filmography
Direction
- Opera Australia, Sydney: Tannhäuser, Andrea Chénier, Salome, Lohengrin, Il trovatore, Don Giovanni
- Victorian State Opera, Melbourne: I Puritani, The Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin
- State Opera of South Australia: Salome, Parsifal, Il trovatore, The Ring of the Nibelung
- Opera Queensland: Fidelio, Il trovatore, Andrea Chénier
- Oper der Stadt Köln: La finta semplice, Tosca, Die Fledermaus, La Traviata
- Bell Shakespeare Company: A Midsummer Night 's Dream