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Hietzinger Cemetery
Hietzing Cemetery is a cemetery in Hietzing, the 13th district of Vienna, Austria. Located just south-west of the Schönbrunn Palace, the cemetery covers approximately 97,175 m² and contains around 11,100 graves. History A burial ground existed near today’s Maxingstraße even before 1786. After Hietzing became an independent parish, a new cemetery was established at its current location in 1787 and expanded several times (including in 1794, 1817, 1835, 1892, 1907, between 1918 and 1944, in the 1950s, and in 1979), eventually growing to over 40,000 m² in size. Since 1892, the cemetery has been owned by the City of Vienna and serves as an interdenominational burial site for Hietzing and the Schönbrunn Palace. In 1913, a new chapel and mortuary were built. After several buildings in the cemetery - including the funeral hall - were damaged during the final days of the Second World War, they were restored by 1947. Renovations and modifications followed in the 1950s, 1960s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Conrads
Heinz Conrads (December 21, 1913 – April 9, 1986) was an Austrian actor, radio and television host, and Wienerlied performer. He appeared in more than thirty films during his career including the 1947 historical '' It's Only Love''. Selected filmography * '' It's Only Love'' (1947) * ''Spring on Ice'' (1951) * '' Knall and Fall as Imposters '' (1952) * ''Adventure in Vienna ''Adventure in Vienna'' () is a 1952 Austrian crime thriller film directed by Emil E. Reinert and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers and Adrienne Gessner.Fritsche p.243 It is an adaptation of the 1933 novel '' I Was Jack Mortimer'' by Al ...'' (1952) * '' To Be Without Worries'' (1953) * '' Grandstand for General Staff'' (1953) * '' Love, Summer and Music'' (1956) * '' And Who Is Kissing Me?'' (1956) * '' Castle in Tyrol'' (1957) * ''Wiener Schnitzel'' (1967) References Bibliography * Fritsche, Maria. ''Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity''. Berghahn B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coudenhove-Kalergi
The Coudenhove-Kalergi family is an Austro- Bohemian noble family of mixed Flemish and Cretan Greek descent, which was formed by the marriage of Count Franz Karl von Coudenhove (1825–1893) with Marie Kalergi (1840–1877) in 1857. The Coudenhoves were Catholic barons with estates in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège and the Lower Rhine region and were raised to the rank of counts of the Holy Roman Empire in 1790. After the upheaval of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, they moved to the Austrian Empire and acquired estates in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. The Kallergis family had enjoyed high status in Crete, having been sent there by Byzantine emperor Alexios II Komnenos in the mid-12th century.reek: Καλλ(ι)έργης > Καλλέργης, known in many versions as Kalergis, Calergis, Kallergi, Callergi, Calergi Over the centuries, Polish, Norwegian, Baltic, French, and German lineages were absorbed into the Kallergis family. The two families united ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsuko Aoyama
Mitsuko Thekla Maria, Countess of Coudenhove-Kalergi (; 7 July 1874 27 August 1941), formerly known as , was one of the first Japanese people to immigrate to Europe, after becoming the wife of an Austro-Hungarian diplomat, Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi, in Tokyo. She was the mother of Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi and the Catholic author Ida Friederike Görres (née von Coudenhove-Kalergi). Life Aoyama was the daughter of Kihachi Aoyama, an antiques and oil dealer in Tokyo. The Aoyama family was also a landowner of large estates. At the age of 17, she met the Austro-Hungarian diplomat Count Heinrich von Coudenhove (from 1903, Coudenhove-Kalergi) when she came to his aid after his horse slipped on ice (Heinrich often visited her father's shop, not far from the Austrian legation). Heinrich gained her father's permission for her to be employed as a parlour maid in the legation and then, after they fell in love, asked his permission for them to marry. The latter request wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharina Schratt
Katharina Schratt, Baroness Kiss von Ittebe (11 September 1853 – 17 April 1940) was an Austrian actress who became "the uncrowned Empress of Austria" as a ''confidante'' of Emperor Franz Joseph. Life Katharina Schratt was born in Baden bei Wien, the only daughter of stationery dealer Anton Schratt (1804–1883); she had two brothers. From the age of six, she took an interest in theatre. Her parents tried to discourage her from becoming an actress and sent her to a boarding school in Cologne, however, this only increased her ambition. She finally was allowed to take acting lessons in Vienna and gave her debut at the age of 17 in her hometown. Acting career In 1872, she joined the ensemble of the Royal Court Theatre in Berlin, achieving considerable success in a short time. Schratt left Germany after only a few months, following the call of the Viennese to join their City Theatre. Her performance made her a leading lady of the Viennese stage. Schratt toured overseas, and appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Prack
Rudolf Prack (2 August 1905 – 2 December 1981) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * ''Florentine'' (1937) * ''Prinzessin Sissy'' (1939) - Prince Luitpold * '' A Mother's Love'' (1939) - Felix Pirlinger - 1922 * ''Krambambuli'' (1940) - Thomas Werndl * ''Ein Leben lang'' (1940) - Franz Hofbauer * '' Beloved Augustin'' (1940) - Podl Schauerhuber, Musikant * ''Spähtrupp Hallgarten'' (1941) - Oberjäger Unterkirchner * ''Die heimlichen Bräute'' (1942) - Peter Leidinger * '' The Golden City'' (1942) - Großknecht Thomas - Annas Verlobte * ''The Big Number'' (1943) - Peter Stoll * '' The Eternal Tone'' (1943) - Berthold Buchner * ''Die unheimliche Wandlung des Axel Roscher'' (1943) - Zollassistent Alex Roscher * ''Reise in die Vergangenheit'' (1943) - Michael BrantnerLehrer * ''Aufruhr der Herzen'' (1944) - Franz Atzinger * ''Orient Express'' (1944) - Franz Schulz * ''Leuchtende Schatten'' (1945) * ''Der weite Weg'' (1946) - Franz Manhardt * ''Glaube an mich'' (1946) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabine Oberhauser
Sabine Oberhauser (30 August 1963 – 23 February 2017) was an Austrian physician and politician. At the time of her death, she was Austria's Minister for Health and Minister for Women. Biography Oberhauser was born in Vienna. In 2014, she became a minister in the Social Democrat-Christian Conservative coalition government of then-Chancellor Werner Faymann. She continued as Minister for Health when Christian Kern took over the coalition two years later. The same year, she became the Minister for Women. She made her diagnosis of abdominal cancer public in 2015. Oberhauser was married and had two daughters. Oberhauser entered hospital in February 2017 for treatment of a ventricular fuse, and announced on 15 February that Alois Stöger would stand in for her during her illness. However, her condition soon deteriorated and she died a week later, on 23 February 2017. She was 53. She was cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering Feuerhalle Simmering is a crematorium with attached urn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koloman Moser
Koloman Moser (; 30 March 1868 – 18 October 1918) was an Austrian artist who exerted considerable influence on twentieth-century graphic art. He was one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werkstätte. Moser designed a wide array of art works, including books and graphic works from postage stamps to magazine vignettes; fashion; stained glass windows, porcelains and ceramics, blown glass, tableware, silver, jewelry, and furniture. Biography Moser was born in Vienna in 1868 to parents Josef and Thresia Moser (née Hirsch); he was the oldest of three siblings. studied at the Wiener Akademie and the Kunstgewerbeschule, where he also taught from 1899. Moser's designs in architecture, furniture, jewellery, graphics, and tapestries helped characterise the work of this era. He drew upon the clean lines and repetitive motifs of classical Greek and Roman art and architecture in reaction to the Baroque decadence of his turn-of-the-centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Marischka
Hubert Marischka (27 August 1882 – 4 December 1959), brother of Ernst Marischka, was an Austrian operetta tenor, actor, film director and screenwriter. Career Marischka was born in Brunn am Gebirge, the son of Jiří (or Johann) Marischka, a supplier to the court of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and his wife Bertha. Hubert began work as a joiner but trained as a singer and in 1904 began a new career in operetta in the town theatre of St. Pölten in ''Der arme Jonathan'' by Karl Millöcker. He had his first success as a singer in Brno in 1906, as Danilo in ''Die lustige Witwe''. On 27 July 1907 he sang at the premiere of the ''The Merry Farmer (operetta), Der fidele Bauer'' by Leo Fall in Mannheim. On 23 December 1908 he appeared on stage for the first time in Vienna at the Carltheater in Fall's ''Die geschiedene Frau''. From then on he was particularly successful in the Theater an der Wien, where later he worked as director, mostly of operettas. In 1923 he rose to be di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Léon
Victor Léon, also Viktor Léon (born Victor Hirschfeld; 4 January 1858, Senica, Slovakia – 23 February 1940, Vienna, Austria) was a well-known Jewish librettist. He collaborated with Leo Stein to produce the libretto of Franz Lehár's romantic operetta ''The Merry Widow'' (''Die lustige Witwe''). Biography Hirschfeld began a career as a journalist, and then branched out in the theatre under the pseudonym that was to become familiar - Viktor Léon. Between 1880 and 1884 he wrote one-act libretti for Vienna's Ronacher variety theatre, the Carl-Schultze-Theater in Hamburg, and the German Theatre in Pest, collaborating with composers such as Max von Weinzierl, Rudolf Raimann and Alfred Zamara. Then came a three-act collaboration with Zamara, ''Der Doppelgänger'', produced at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich in September 1886. He then wrote a libretto for Johann Strauss. Alas, '' Simplicius'', a story of the Thirty Years' War, produced at the Theater an der Wien on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Kirchweger
Ernst Kirchweger (January 12, 1898 – April 2, 1965 in Vienna) was the first person to die as a result of political conflict in Austria's Second Republic. From 1916 to 1918, Ernst Kirchweger participated in World War I as a sailor in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Afterwards, he fought on the side of the Red Army. Until 1934, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, but then he joined the Communists, which was outlawed at that time. During the reigns of the Fatherland Front and National Socialist German Workers Party, he risked his life as an activist in illegal trade unions. After Austria's liberation in 1945, having survived concentration camp, he continued to speak out against Fascism and National Socialism. On March 31, 1965, a demonstration of students, former resistance fighters and unions against Taras Borodajkewycz, a university professor accused of having made antisemitic statements, took place in Vienna, while the student organisation of the Freedom Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Josephi
Josef Ichhäuser (1852–1920), known by the stage name Josef Josephi (also spelled Joseffy), was an Austrian Empire-born singer (tenor-baritone) and actor. Life Ichhäuser was born on in Kraków. He was the son of a cloth merchant. He graduated from high school in 1871 and made his debut in 1873 in Vienna in a small role as a soldier in Friedrich Schiller’s '' Fiesco''. His apprenticeship led him to Nagykanizsa, Chemnitz and Wrocław. In 1878 he joined the Ringtheater in Vienna. In 1880 he played at the Carltheater, and in 1883 at the Theater an der Wien. Successes in performing vocal roles led him to the decision to become a singer. He sang in Johann Strauss II's ''Eine Nacht in Venedig'' and ''The Gypsy Baron'', and in Vilém Blodek's comic one-act opera ' (''In the Well''). Together with Alexander Girardi, Karl Lindau, and , he formed the ''Elitekorps'' (elite corps) of the Viennese operetta. In 1900 he moved to Berlin. From 1906 he was for two years at the and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
