Susi Nicoletti
Susi Nicoletti (real name: Susanne Emilie Luise Adele Habersack; born September 3, 1918 in Munich, † June 5, 2005 in Vienna) was a German - Austrian actress, who primarily as a comedian, particularly in pieces by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy and Ferdinand Raimund, emerged.
Youth and beginning of career
The mother was the actress Consuela Nicoletti, her father was the director of shipping company Ernst Habersack. When she was three years old, the family moved to Amsterdam in 1927 and returned to Munich, where Susi Nicolettis began passion for the theater. From the age of 13 she was with the Munich Chamber games as a dancer on stage. Two years later she became principal dancer at the "Munich opera stage ."
At the beginning of the 1930s she joined the cabaret group The white blue barrel organ and completed his training at the Drama School of Magdalina. From 1936 to 1940 she played at the Municipal Theatre Nuremberg. The film she discovered in 1939, where she made her debut in " Black and Blonde ".
Vienna
In 1940 she went to Vienna, where she was until 1992 member of the ensemble, in 1983 an honorary member of the Burgtheater. 1959 to 1961 and from 1992 she worked at the Theater in der Josefstadt and since 1946 at the Salzburg Festival.
Her debut at the Burgtheater they were in Hermann Bahr's " The Franzl ". She played more than 100 roles here. Initially, it was the epitome of Viennese sweet girls with temperament and cheeky wit, and then developed into a " differentiating character actress with precise gestures and big opportunities in the comic ." Among the most important pieces include, "The girl from the suburbs " in 1941 and 1961, " The Talisman " 1981/82, " The Taming of the Shrew " in 1950, " The beaver " 1950, " Before Sunset " 1963/64, " flirtation ", 1954, " the Vast " in 1978 directed by Otto Schenk, Giraudoux's " Amphitryon 38 " 1955/56, " An Ideal Husband " 1961/62 and " Bunbury " 1976/77.
During her time at the Theater in der Josefstadt, she starred in the world premiere of the temptress and Muse in Joshua Sobol's Polydrama " Alma - A Show biz ever after" 1996 Purkersdorf Sanatorium, directed by Paulus Manker.
Among her most important roles at the Salzburg Festival include Viola in Twelfth Night in 1950, Colombine in Goldoni's " The Liar " in 1952, Marthe Schwerdtlein in "Faust I" in 1961, directed by Lindtberg, Crescence in " The Difficult " in 1967 with OW Fischer. From 1983 to 1989 she played everyone's mother in "everyone".
Teaching and film
Besides, Susi Nicoletti also worked as a dance and drama teacher; 1954-1989 she was Full Professor of the Vienna Max Reinhardt Seminar, she gave musical lessons and private lessons. Among her most successful students include popular artists such as Heath Weis, Pia Douwes, Ute Lemper, Senta Berger, Paulus Manker or Albert Fortell.
Nicoletti played more than 100 roles in film and television, mostly comedies, including " Hello porter " in 1952 with Hans Moser and Paul Hörbiger. Other films are " Mariandl " (1961), " My Friend Harvey " (1970) TV along with Heinz Rühmann, and "Comedian Harmonists" (1997).
In her first marriage, she was married to the film-makers Ludwig Ptack and in second marriage with the actor and Burgtheater director Ernst Haeusserman ( 1916-1984 ). Nicoletti died 86 years old in Vienna General Hospital, where she lay for recovery after heart surgery. She left behind a son and a daughter, and four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. It rests on the Döblinger cemetery in Vienna ( group 37, number 1, number 24), next to her husband.