Adele Neuhauser (born 17 January 1959 in Athens, Greece) is an Austrian actress. She began her career as a theater actress. Later she also worked for television and cinema. She is a member of the Akademie des Österreichischen Films.

Life

Adele Neuhauser was born in Athens but moved at the age of four with her family from Greece to Vienna, where she grew up. Her mother left the family with Neuhauser's half-brother and Neuhauser and her brother stayed with their Greek father George. Later she grew up alone with him. At the age of ten she cut her wrist and until the age of twentyone she tried several times more to commit

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.Friederike Leibl
Adele Neuhauser: "Jetzt hänge ich mehr am Leben"''
interview.'' Die Presse,'' print edition January 1, 2011 Retrieved on June 14, 2011Joachim Schmitz
''Adele Neuhauser: Dunkle Seiten, helle Seiten. Über Suizidversuche in der Jugend und ihre Rolle als Wiener „Tatort“-Kommissarin.''
interview in ''Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung'', May 28, 2011 Retrieved May 28, 2011 After separating from her husband , ORF (Austrian Broadcasting) ''Thema'' from 12 September 2011. Neuhauser moved to Vienna. Their son, (*1987) studied

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and in Weimar, before becoming a professional musician and composer of film music. She likes to hike, mostly on her own. Neuhauser's grandparents from the Waldviertel were academic painters. Her brother, Peter Marquant, followed in their footsteps. The sgraffito on the Vienna Künstlerhaus were created by her grandfather. Because her grandfather was of the opinion that there should be only one painter in the family, her grandmother turned to the production of tapestry, Punch figures and worked for the Wiener Werkstätten. Her great-grandmother, although not subjected to persecution by the Nazis race laws, went voluntarily with her Jewish husband to the concentration camp where both died.

Career

Neuhauser wanted to be an actress since she was six. 1976 - 1978 she trained as actor at the drama school ''Schauspielschule Krauss''. In her early twenties she moved to Germany and began to play at theaters in Münster,

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, at the

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and occasionally also in Vienna. Neuhauser gained nationwide attention for playing as woman

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in Faust at the Stadttheater Regensburg. In addition, she also starred in movies (''Helden in Tirol'', ''Gone – eine tödliche Leidenschaft'', '' Wo ist Fred?'', ', ''

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'') and television series ('' Tatort'', '' Polizeiruf 110'' and '' Sinan Toprak ist der Unbestechliche'') and became widely known for her distinctive voice, in particular through her role of the farmer's wife Julie Zirbner in the

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production '' Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall''. In 2008 Neuhauser underwent a vocal cord surgery due to deposits and a Reinke's edema on the vocal cords. The pitch of her voice has thus increased a little and she has since then not been addressed anymore on the phone as "Mr. Neuhauser". Since 2010 she plays the alcohol-dependent former vice squad investigator Bibi Fellner who suffers from

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and works on the side of Harald Krassnitzer (as Moritz Eisner) in the Viennese Tatort produced by the ORF.

Filmography (incomplete)

Theater (incomplete)

* 1986: '' Nachtasyl'' (

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) * 1990: ''

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'' ( Wiener Schauspielhaus) * 1991: '' Medea'' (

) * 1992: ''Quartett'' (Theater Erlangen) * 1996-1998: ''Präsidentinnen'' (Theater Erlangen) * 1999: '' Maria Stuart'' (

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) * 1999: '' Faust'' (Theater Regensburg) * 2000: ''

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'' (Theater Regensburg) * 2000: '' Meisterklasse'' (Theater Regensburg) * 2000: ''

'' (Theater Regensburg) * 2000: '' Medea'' (Theater Regensburg) * 2010/2011: ''Unschuldsvermutung'' (Rabenhof Theater, Vienna) as ''

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Awards

* 1996: Darstellerpreis Bayerische TheatertageAgentur Scenario: Adele Neuhauser – Facts
, accessed 29 May 2011 * 2012: Romy Film- und Fernsehpreis as ''Beliebteste Seriendarstellerin'' (most popular actor/actress in TV series) * 2013: Romy Film- und Fernsehpreis as ''Beliebteste Seriendarstellerin'' (most popular actor/actress in TV series) * 2014: Grimme-Preis for ''Tatort: Angezählt''

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Neuhauser, Adele 1959 births Austrian film actresses Austrian voice actresses Living people Austrian television actresses Austrian people of Greek descent