Sonja Sutter
Sonja Ingrid Emilie Hanna Sutter ( born January 17, 1931 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German film and theater actress, who became known for their commitment at the Burgtheater in Vienna awareness.
Life
Although Sonja Sutter the Rudolf Steiner School in Freiburg ended only with a limited education because of the war, she later studied Greek and Latin. At this time matured in her, the decision to become an actress.
She made her stage debut in 1950 at the Stadttheater Freiburg, later she worked in Stuttgart, at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus and the State Theater in Munich. In test shots for a sentimental movie directed by and starring Luis Trenker the DEFA director Slatan Dudow became aware of Sutter, he was involved for the movie women's lives ( 1952).
This was followed in 1953 finally movie offers from West Germany. Sutter was thus one of the few artists of her time, who worked on two German territories.
The big breakthrough and the associated success they had but with DEFA productions, especially in 1957 with Lissy, a multi award-winning work, which gave her a certain notoriety in East Germany. In 1961 she lost the opportunity to participate in other DEFA films with the construction of the Berlin Wall.
In 1959 she accepted a position at the Burgtheater in Vienna, where she was employed for over 40 years. They also came up in the early 1990s regularly at the Salzburg Festival, and has guest starred on the German stage, such as the Hamburg Schauspielhaus, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dusseldorf, the Zurich Schauspielhaus or at the Festival in Bregenz and Bad Hersfeld.
Sutter occurs sporadically in German television productions.
She lives in Vienna, is married to a physician and has a daughter.