Hedwig Bleibtreu
Hedwig Bleibtreu ( born December 23, 1868 in Linz on the Danube, Austria - Hungary, † 24 January 1958 in Vienna Pötzleinsdorf, Austria ) was an Austrian theater and film actress.
Life
The daughter of actor, painter and officer Sigismund Bleibtreu (* Friesach, February 12, 1819 † Vienna, February 18, 1894 ) and his wife Amalie appeared in The Spendthrift at the Theater an der Wien at the age of four years. At the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna Hedwig Bleibtreu received her artistic training. In 1886 she made her debut at the Stadttheater Augsburg. Other engagements have taken her to Brno, Berlin ( Berlin theater ), to the summer theater Schwedt (1889 ) and at the Court Theatre of Kassel and Munich.
In 1891 she made her first appearance in Vienna at the Carl Theatre and was from 1893 until her death in the ensemble of the Burgtheater. She was at the Vienna Burgtheater as a great tragic actress [note 1] in the tradition of the legendary Charlotte Wolter. Also known as reciter she made a name for himself and discussed as such several literary voice boards.
In the film she had initially sporadic appearances in the silent film, by advent of the talkies took to their presence. Her most famous film appearances they had in Thirteen chairs with Heinz Rühmann and in The Third Man with Orson Welles on a script by Graham Greene. One of the most commercially successful movies in which she appeared in a supporting role, was the Nazi propaganda film request concert ( 1940).
At the closing of the theaters on September 1, 1944, she took Adolf Hitler, as an irreplaceable artist in the Gottbegnadeten - list.
1953, she celebrated 60 years membership of the Burgtheater ensemble first after Bernhard builder.
Hedwig Bleibtreu was in his first marriage with the court actor and dramatic teacher at the conservatory Römpler Alexander ( born March 12, 1860 in Berlin, † December 18, 1909 in Vienna) [note 2], married in second with the Burgtheater director Max Paulsen ( stage name Peter Petersen ). Her sister married name Mebus Maximiliane Bleibtreu ( born August 1, 1870 in Bratislava, † April 16, 1923 in Dresden) debuted in 1890 at the Theater an der Wien; after the change to Dresden, she was appointed the Royal Saxon Court actress. Hedwig Bleibtreu's grandniece Monica Bleibtreu (1944-2009) was a profiled theater actress. Their son Moritz (born 1971 ) is a famous film actor of recent German cinema.
Hedwig Bleibtreu (as Hedwig Paulsen ) in an honorary dedicated grave in the cemetery Pötzleinsdorf (Group F, No. 88/89 ) buried in Vienna. In 1981 in Vienna Simmering ( 11th district ) was named the Bleibtreu road after her.