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Mozart (1955 Film)
''Mozart'' is a 1955 Austrian drama film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Oskar Werner, Johanna Matz and Gertrud Kückelmann. It is also known by the alternative title ''The Life and Loves of Mozart''. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. The plot explores the mental state of Mozart during production of his final opera ''The Magic Flute''. Werner's portrayal of Mozart was unusual for the time in playing him as a cheerful and easygoing young man, reflecting the postwar optimism of the newly restored Austrian Republic. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Werner Schlichting and Wolf Witzemann. Cast *Oskar Werner as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart * Johanna Matz as Annie Gottlieb *Erich Kunz as Emanuel Schikaneder *Gertrud Kückelmann as Constanze Mozart * Nadja Tiller as Louise Weber Lange *Annie Rosar as Frau Weber * Hugo Gottschlich as Don Primus *Angelika Hauff as Suzi Gerl *Albin Skoda as Antonio Salieri, village composer *Raoul Aslan as Rosen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl (10 May 1899 – 29 August 1978) was an Austrian film director. Life Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda. As a production manager, he in the 1920s accompanied Korda to Berlin, until in 1926 he returned to Vienna to work for his former class-mate director Gustav Ucicky. From 1930 he worked for Universum Film AG (UFA) and debuted as director of ''Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg'' ("A Fraternity Song from Heidelberg") starring Hans Brausewetter and Willi Forst, with young Billy Wilder as a screenwriter. Together with Luis Trenker he directed the ''Gebirgsjäger'' drama ''Berge in Flammen'' ("Mountains in Flames") in 1931. He then experimented with other genres, for example the comedy ''Die Gräfin von Monte Cristo'' ("The Countess of Monte Cristo") (1932) with Brigitte Helm and Gustaf Gründgens, and in the same year achieved his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Gottlieb
Maria Anna Josepha Francisca Gottlieb (29 April 1774 – 4 February 1856) was an Austrian soprano. She was the first Pamina in Mozart's opera ''The Magic Flute''. She was born in Vienna as one of four sisters. Her parents were actors who worked in the German theatre company of the Nationaltheater, and all four sisters were raised to the family trade, working as actresses as children. Anna first acted at the Burgtheater at age five.New Grove Dictionary Shortly after she turned 12 (1 May 1786), she premiered the role of Barbarina in Mozart's '' The Marriage of Figaro''. At fifteen, she appeared in the role of Amande in Paul Wranitzky's opera ''Oberon, König der Elfen'' ("Oberon, King of the Elves"). This production featured in the leading role the soprano Josepha Hofer, who was Mozart's sister-in-law and later premiered the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's ''The Magic Flute''. When in 1789 the actor and impresario Emanuel Schikaneder brought his troupe to be the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Bettac
Ulrich Ewald Berthold Bettac (2 May 1897 – 20 April 1959), was an Austrian actor and theatre director. He was especially well known for his work as a character actor at the Burgtheater in Vienna; he also had a fairly extensive film career. Selected filmography * ''The Girl from Capri'' (1924) * '' The Mistress of Monbijou'' (1924) * '' False Shame'' (1926) * '' A Night at the Grand Hotel'' (1931) * '' Come Back to Me'' (1944) *''Mysterious Shadows'' (1949) * '' Duel with Death'' (1949) *''1. April 2000'' (1952) *'' Knall and Fall as Imposters'' (1952) *'' The Great Temptation'' (1952) * ''Adventure in Vienna'' (1952) * ''Arlette Conquers Paris'' (1953) * '' The Divorcée'' (1953) * '' Mask in Blue'' (1953) *''The Eternal Waltz'' (1954) *'' Sissi'' (1955) * '' André and Ursula'' (1955) * '' Mozart'' (1955) * '' Goetz von Berlichingen'' (1955) *'' Sissi – The Young Empress'' (1956) External links Ulrich Bettacat Österreich-Lexikon (in German German(s) may refer to: * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Seidler
Alma Seidler (1 June 1899 – 8 December 1977) was an Austrian actress. She was member of the Burgtheater for over 50 years. Biography Alma Seidler was born in Leoben, the daughter of Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg. The later Burgtheater director Albert Heine was her teacher and sponsor. From 1918 to 1977, she was actress at the Burgtheater and made her debut in Ibsen's ''Wildente'' in 1919. Since 1960, she was honorary member of the Burgtheater. She also performed at the Salzburg Festival. Seidler was married to the Burgtheater actor and director , with whom she had a son. She died in Vienna on 8 December 1977 and is buried in a grave of honor at the Vienna Central Cemetery. Awards Source: * Kammerschauspielerin (February 1928); * Decoration of Honour in Gold of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (1955); * (1959); * for Mrs. Dowey in ''Die Medaillen der alten Dame'' (Barry/Koval) (1959); * Honorary member Burgtheater (1960); * Austrian Decoration for Sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul Aslan
Raoul Aslan ( hy, Ռաուլ Ասլան, born Tigran Aslanyan, Armenian: Տիգրան Ասլանյան; 16 October 1886 – 17 June 1958) was an Austrian theater actor of Greek-Armenian ancestry. Life Born in Saloniki, Ottoman Empire (now in Greece), Aslan lived in Vienna from 1897 until his death. In 1917 he joined the "Deutsche Volkstheater" in Vienna and was active at the Vienna Burgtheater from 1920 to 1958, where he mainly played classical heroes and complex characters such as Hamlet, Mephisto, Marquis Posa, and Nathan. Aslan was the director of the Vienna Burgtheater from 1945 to 1948. In 1929 he was the first actor to be awarded the title "Kammerschauspieler". Raoul Aslan was listed on the Gottbegnadeten list of Joseph Goebbels as an important artist. Quotes Aslan once said to fellow actor Gustaf Gründgens: "Mr. Gründgens, you're the greatest German actor, I am the greatest German actor. But one thing you should never forget: My family comes from Konstantinopel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Salieri
Antonio Salieri (18 August 17507 May 1825) was an Italian classical composer, conductor, and teacher. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg monarchy. Salieri was a pivotal figure in the development of late 18th-century opera. As a student of Florian Leopold Gassmann, and a protégé of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Salieri was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote operas in three languages. Salieri helped to develop and shape many of the features of operatic compositional vocabulary, and his music was a powerful influence on contemporary composers. Appointed the director of the Italian opera by the Habsburg court, a post he held from 1774 until 1792, Salieri dominated Italian-language opera in Vienna. During his career, he also spent time writing works for opera houses in Paris, Rome, and Venice, and his dramatic works were widely performed throughout Europe during his lifetime. As the Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albin Skoda
Albin Skoda (1909–1961) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He played the lead role of Adolf Hitler in the 1955 film ''The Last Ten Days'' by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.Silberman p.243 The same year he also appeared as the composer Antonio Salieri in Karl Hartl's ''Mozart''. The nephew of the actor Carl Skoda, he made his stage debut in 1918 as a child actor before attending the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Selected filmography * ''Love, Death and the Devil'' (1934) * ''The Queen of the Landstrasse'' (1948) * ''Archduke Johann's Great Love'' (1950) * ''Spring on Ice'' (1951) * '' Goetz von Berlichingen'' (1955) * ''The Last Ten Days'' (1955) * ''Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...'' (1955) * '' William Tell'' (1956) References Bibliography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Hauff
Angelika Hauff (1922–1983) was an Austrian stage and film actress. She worked prolifically as a film actress in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War appearing in the lead roles in several successful films that included '' The Marriage of Figaro'' and '' Dark Eyes'' (1951). A versatile actor, she appeared in a variety of cinematic genres in Germany and Austria and attained international recognition in French, English and Italian films. She was a preeminent stage actress with the prestigious Vienna Burgtheatre portraying classic German language roles and being awarded the highest acting honours. Biography Hauff was born Alice Paula Marie Suchanek in Vienna on December 15, 1922. In her youth she was an aspiring ballet dancer at the Vienna State Opera. She studied Drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar (Reinhardt Seminar) now part of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In 1942 she began her professional career with an engagement at the Salzburg State Theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Gottschlich
Hugo Gottschlich (1905–1984) was an Austrian stage and film actor, who specialised in Viennese character parts.Fritsche p.148 Later in his career he appeared frequently on television. Selected filmography * ''Arlberg Express'' (1948) * '' Fregola'' (1948) * '' On Resonant Shores'' (1948) * '' Kissing Is No Sin'' (1950) * ''Cordula'' (1950) * ''City Park'' (1951) * ''Miracles Still Happen'' (1951) * '' White Shadows'' (1951) * ''Vienna Waltzes'' (1951) * ''1. April 2000'' (1952) * '' A Night in Venice'' (1953) * '' To Be Without Worries'' (1953) * ''Anna Louise and Anton'' (1953) * '' The Spendthrift'' (1953) * '' The Red Prince'' (1954) * '' Mozart'' (1955) * ''Sarajevo'' (1955) * '' Imperial and Royal Field Marshal'' (1956) * '' The Saint and Her Fool'' (1957) * '' Vienna, City of My Dreams'' (1957) * ''And Lead Us Not Into Temptation'' (1957) * '' Candidates for Marriage'' (1958) * '' The Priest and the Girl'' (1958) * ''The Good Soldier Schweik ''The'' () is a grammatica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Rosar
Annie Rosar (May 17, 1888 – August 5, 1963) was an Austrian stage and film actress who is best remembered today for her appearances in many Austrian comedy films from the 1930s to the early 1960s. In those movies, she was frequently cast in the comic roles of nagging wife (for example in '' Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn'' opposite Hans Moser), "evil" mother-in-law, or understanding housekeeper, whether in rural (''Heimatfilme'') or urban settings. She occasionally also appeared in serious films, including her cameo performance as the porter's wife in ''The Third Man'' (1949), and in ' based on the novel by Franz Werfel in 1958. Biography Annie Rosar was born in Vienna into a farming family based in Orth an der Donau, near Vienna. Her father Michael Rosar (1850–1927) worked as a conductor on the Vienna tram network. Having finished grammar school ('' Gymnasium''), Rosar attended the University of Music and Performing Arts and made her stage debut in the Vienna P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aloysia Weber
''Aloysia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. They are known generally as beebrushes.''Aloysia''. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). They are native to the Americas, where they are distributed in temperate climates, as well as in subtropical and desert climates.Siedo, S. J. (2012) Four new specie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadja Tiller
Nadja Tiller (born 16 March 1929 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian actress. She was one of the most popular German-speaking actresses of international films of the 1950s and 1960s. Biography Nadja Tiller, daughter of actor Anton Tiller of Vienna and his wife Erika Tiller (1902-1979) (formerly Erika Körner), an opera singer and actress from Danzig, attended a Realgymnasium secondary school in Vienna. In 1945 she began her studies at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar, which she later continued until 1949 at the Musik- und Schauspielakademie. In the same year she became an ensemble member at the Theater in der Josefstadt. She won the Miss Austria competition in 1949, a national beauty pageant for unmarried women in Austria. She had her major film debut in 1952 in ''Märchen vom Glück'' (Good Luck Fairytale). In 1955, she acted opposite O. W. Fischer in the film '' Ich suche Dich'', based on a play by A. J. Cronin. Her international breakthrough role was that of Rosemarie Nitribi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
