Viktoria von Ballasko

Victoria of Ballasko ( born January 24, 1909 in Vienna, † May 10, 1976 in Berlin; actually Viktoria Maria Franziska Ballasko ) was an Austrian film actress.

Life

Victoria of Ballasko was the daughter of a high official and officer retd After high school, she attended the Academy of Performing Arts in Vienna. From 1929 she had stage engagements in Bern, Chemnitz and Breslau, and in 1935 she appeared in the Berlin theater on Schiffbauerdamm. After his first experience as a voice actress, she came in 1935/36 over Luis Trenker the film. Her first starring role was in 1936 in the film pediatrician Dr. Angel with Paul Hörbiger. More starring roles followed with the films password Machin (1939, with Albert Hehn ), The Beloved (1939, with Willy Fritsch ), In the Shadow of the Mountain (1940, with Attila Hörbiger ) and The Heir (1943 /44, with Willy Birgel ). The blonde, girlish and fragile-looking actress was there set to the type of low-key, self-sacrificing understanding woman.

After the end of World War II Victoria for a time worked as a radio and voice actress. Then she wrote together with Udo Vietz the screenplay for the short documentary grace and power, before they got back offers as actress. In addition to two DEFA productions Another 48 (1948, by Gustav von Wangenheim ) and Our Daily Bread (1949, by Slatan Dudow ) they still played in some West German films before she ended her career in the late 1950s.

As a voice actress she lent her voice among others Annabella ( The girl with the mask) and Joan Fontaine (suspected, first dubbed version, and Oh, Susanne ).

The grave of Victoria of Ballasko is located in the cemetery of the village church Giesensdorfer in Berlin.

Since 1949, she was married to Curt Behrendt.

Filmography