Vilma Degischer
Vilma Degischer ( born November 17, 1911 in Vienna, † 3 May 1992, Baden near Vienna; actually: Wilhelmine Anna Maria Degischer ) was an Austrian actress chamber.
Life and work
The daughter of a court counselor was trained in modern dance and classical ballet with Grete Gross, Gertrude Bodenwieser and Ellinor Tordis. Until 1931 she studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. Her stage debut was still during their training as Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" under Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. Here she also met her castmates Thimig Hermann, whom she married in 1939.
After her training, she was engaged at the Reinhardt theaters in Vienna and Berlin. Your main place of activity was the theater in Josefstadt. An interruption of this was from 1935 to 1939 commitment at the German National Theatre in Vienna. From 1939 until her death, she was part of the ensemble of the Josefstadt, the Doyenne she was finally. At the Salzburg Festival she performed in the 1930s and played among others in " Figaro Gets a Divorce " (1970), "everyone" ( 1973, 1974, 1976), " The Talisman " (1976, 1978-1980, directed by Otto Schenk) and Elias Canetti's "Wedding" (1988).
She played in her life about 400 roles in classical and modern plays. Their strength was conversation and salon pieces. It was considered the ideal candidate for the female characters Arthur Schnitzler and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In addition, they also played classic roles from Shakespeare, Goethe and Grillparzer to Ibsen, Chekhov and Pirandello.
In the film, she was relatively rare to see, but she was here millions of viewers from 1955 known as Archduchess Sophie, mother of the stern played by Romy Schneider Sissi in the same trilogy.
In the popular, 1952-1960 almost every week emitted radio family turned Vilma Vilma Degischer Floriani, wife of High Court Judge Dr. Hans Floriani (played by her brother Hans Thimig ) dar.
It rests on the Sieveringer Cemetery (Division 2, Group 13, Number 76) in Vienna next to her husband.
Characterization
It highlights Degischers advantages in conversation pieces so their elegance, nobility, charm, and great linguistic mastery. It was regarded as the incarnation of the legendary Josefstädterstraße style of musical language culture and attitude that is designated as a ' Contenance '.
Filmography
Awards
- Kammerschauspielerin the first non active at the Burgtheater actress
- 1959: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class was the first woman
- 1972: Josef Kainz Medal
- Honorary Medal of the Austrian capital Vienna in Gold