Franziska Kinz
Amalia Franziska Kinz ( born February 21, 1897 in Kufstein, † April 26, 1980 in Meran ) was an Austrian actress.
Life
They first went to a trade school and came as part of their training to Berlin, Vienna and Heidelberg, before they opted for the acting profession. Kinz received four months acting classes at the Theatre School of Munich Studio Theater at Frederick Basil and gave her 1924 debut as Gretchen in Faust at the Stadttheater Zurich. In the same year she received an engagement at the State Theatre in Munich.
In 1926 she performed in New York. More Stage stations were the Staatstheater Berlin and 1930, the State Theatre Darmstadt. In 1933 she went permanently to Berlin, where she performed at the Berlin Chamber games, the Schiller Theater and the Deutsches Theater. Guest performances have taken her to Vienna and Munich.
Since the early thirties Franziska Kinz starred in movies, where they usually embodied earthy, steadfast female figures. She was the title character as a loving mother in Mrs. Sixta (1938 ), a sympathetic stepmother in from his first marriage (1939) and a self-sacrificing unmarried mother in the title role of The waitress Anna ( 1941).
Until 1933, Franziska Kinz was with the SPD member of the Reichstag ( 1930-1933 ) Carlo Mierendorff romantically involved, after the Nazi seizure of power (so-called seizure of power ) arrested and up to 1938, spent in various concentration camps ' was. Woman Kinz sat well together with Emil Henk, Gerhart Pohl, Hella Jablonski and others for years for Mierendorff concentration camp dismissal, which took place from the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938, a - married nonetheless but the regime close association official, journalist, book and film writer Karl -Heinz Kaesbach ( b. 1908 ). The tragic passing drama of the relationship Kinz - Mierendorff has been partially elucidated encoded as a secondary line in the main plot of the published first in 1955 Pohl 's novel " refuge " received (and later in the Carlo Mierendorff biography (1987 ) by Richard Albrecht: Radical Social Democrat. Carlo Mierendorff 1897-1943, Dietz, Berlin 1987 ( = International Library Vol 124) (ISBN 3-8012-1128-2 ) in 1997 under the title code name Dr. Friedrich: Carlo Mierdorf - filmed on a life time of Alfred Jungraithmayr ).
Franziska Kinz ( Kaesbach ) was also given in 1933 to recognize through their participation in the propaganda films refugees and Hitler Youth Quex their loyalty to the new government.
After the war she continued her film career and developed an intense theatrical activity with performances including Munich, Innsbruck, Salzburg and Frankfurt. The convinced vegetarian engaged lasting for animal welfare, supported the construction of a shelter in Innsbruck and was temporarily President of the Animal Welfare League. A part of their family estate in Tirol she asked to build a model housing available to the elderly were able to spend together with their animals the evening of life. She also wrote lyrics for a healthy diet and lifestyle.