Judith Holzmeister
Judith Wood Master ( born February 14, 1920 in Innsbruck, † June 23, 2008 in Baden bei Wien ) was an Austrian actress.
Judith Wood Master was born in 1920 as the daughter of the architect Clemens Holzmeister. Her acting training she received at the Reinhardt Seminar, among others at Tilla Durieux. After working as a theater actress at the State Theatre in Linz and at the German National Theatre she was from 1947 until her retirement in 1985 the Burgtheater on Vienna.
At the German folk theater she made her debut in 1942 with Walter Bruno Iltz as Schiller's Maid of Orleans with OW Fischer as Lionel and played in the same year also Lessing's Minna von Barn-helm with Inge Konradihaus as Franziska and 1943, Schiller's Mary Stuart with Dorothea Neff as Queen Elizabeth.
Her film career began as a 19- year-old with the main female role in Luis Trenker's liberation Drama Firestarter, with physical beauty paired her with histrionic skills. Especially at the theater, she played big roles for decades. Also in two world premieres of pieces by the writer Thomas Bernhard, she participated. Special design of power she dedicated pieces of antiquity, and it was especially used in the director Luca Ronconi at the Burgtheater. Wood master and Ronconi joined a large mutual sympathy, and the actress stopped at an awards ceremony at Ronconi, 2003 in Taormina a speech.
Wood Master was from 1947 with Curd Jürgens, with whom she played in Vienna Mädeln to 1955, and married since 1959 with Bruno Dallansky.
In 1973 she received the Kainz Medal and in 1991 she was the first winner of Liselotte Joiner ring.
Judith Wood Master was adopted folk garden on September 11, 2008 at the Burgtheater in Vienna staircase, worn around the house according to the tradition once and then her urn in the Viennese central cemetery in a grave of honor of the city of Vienna ( group 33G, number 40) was buried.