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Johanna von Koczian
Born(1933-10-30)30 October 1933
Berlin, Germany
Died13 February 2024(2024-02-13) (aged 90)
Berlin, Germany
Occupation(s)Actress, singer
Years active1955–2017

Johanna von Koczian (pronounced [ˌjoˈha.na fɔn ˈkɔ.t͡ʃi.aːn] ⓘ, née von Kóczián-Miskolczy, 30 October 1933 – 13 February 2024)[1] was a German actress. She grew up in Salzburg, Austria, where actor Gustaf Gründgens offered her a role at the Salzburg Festival. She later portrayed Anne Frank at the Schiller theater in Berlin, but her breakthrough in cinema was her role in the 1957 remake of Victor and Victoria. She appeared in 60 films and television shows since 1955. She starred in the film The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi, which was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]

She was the daughter of a German soldier, Gustav Freiherr von Koczian-Miskolczy (1877, Brünn – 1958, Oberndorf,[3]) and his wife Lydia Alexandra. After a brief marriage with film director Dietrich Haugk which ended in divorce in 1961, Johanna von Koczian was married to music producer Wolf Kabitzky, who died in July 2004. She is the mother of German actress Alexandra von Koczian.

She had been living in a Berlin nursing home in the Grunewald district since 2017 and had since withdrawn from public life.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ Schauspielerin Johanna von Koczian ist tot! (in German)
  2. ^ "IMDB.com: Awards for The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi". imdb.com. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
  3. ^ [1], [2], [3]
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