Helene Thimig
Helene Ottilie Thimig; Pseudonym: Helene Werner; married Thimig Reinhardt ( born June 5, 1889 in Vienna, † November 7, 1974 ibid ) was an Austrian actress, director and theater director.
Biography
Thimig was the daughter of the later Burgtheater director Hugo Thimig and his wife Franziska nee Hummel ( 1867-1944 ). Even her two brothers Hermann and Hans Thimig were actors. After primary school and the secondary school Luitlen she took acting classes with Hedwig Bleibtreu. On November 12, 1907 she had her first appearance as Marthe in Edouard Paillerons The mouse in the city theater of Baden.
In 1908 she was the Melissa Franz Grillparzer in Sappho. At the Goethe Festival in Dusseldorf, then she appeared at the court theater at Meiningen, 1911-1917 at the Royal Theater in Berlin In 1917 she was engaged at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where she made her debut on 10 October as Elsalil in Gerhart Hauptmann's winter ballad. From the beginning, here is a close cooperation and love affair with the director of the theater Max Reinhardt, with the actress Elsa home (1878-1958) was married and had two sons with this developed. Thimig was 1916-1918 married to director Paul Kalbeck, from which they ( as she called it ) divorced " from purity of soul ."
When Reinhardt was ostracized by the coming to power of the Nazis in 1933, also in Berlin Thimigs successful stage career came to an end. She followed Reinhardt to Vienna and entered into he conducts theater in the Josefstadt. More gigs followed in Prague and at the Salzburg Festival. Thimig followed Reinhardt on various productions in several countries in Europe and married him after his divorce In May 1935, during a guest appearance in the USA.
End of October 1937, she finally followed Reinhardt in his American exile. As she learned the English language only slowly, she received a long time only a very small roles in American theater and film productions. Between 1942 and 1947 she appeared in 18 Hollywood films in which she mostly German women showed. Reinhardt died on 31 October 1943.
Thimig went again after the war to Austria and became a member of the Burgtheater in which her the honorary title of a chamber actress was awarded in 1950. 1953 she was awarded the Karl Renner Prize. They staged from 1947 to 1951 at the Salzburg Festival, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Everyman and ran from 1948 to 1954, the Wiener Max -Reinhardt-Seminar. In addition, she took a teaching position as a professor at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
In the German film, however, they received only a few tasks. After her retirement from the ensemble of the Burgtheater in 1954 she took once more to a firm commitment at the Theater in der Josefstadt. She received the 1953 Karl Renner Prize and 1962, the Kainz Medal. From 1963 to 1968 she staged again everyone Festival in Salzburg. In 1969 she was awarded the Honorary Ring of the City of Vienna.
Thimig entered into a third marriage with the Austrian actor Anton Edthofer.
She got the end of March 1974 at the Theater in der Josefstadt, the last time on stage. In November 1974, she died of a pulmonary embolism.
Your honorary dedicated grave site is located in Vienna Urnenhain the fire hall Simmering (Department ALI, grave No. 152).