Rosa Albach-Retty
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Rosa Albach-Retty | |
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 Rosa Albach-Retty about 1902 | |
| Born | Rosa Clara Franziska Helene Retty 26 December 1874 |
| Died | 26 August 1980 (aged 105) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1890–1958 |
| Spouse | Karl Walter Albach (1870–1952) |
Rosa Albach-Retty (26 December 1874 – 26 August 1980) was a German-born Austrian movie and stage actress. She is mainly remembered today as actress Romy Schneider's paternal grandmother.
Life
Born into a well-known family of Austrian actors, she was the daughter of actor and director Rudolf Retty. Trained by her father, she began her stage career in 1890 at the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater in Berlin, where she successfully performed in the title role of Minna von Barnhelm. In 1895, she went to the Volkstheater in Vienna and in 1903 joined the Burgtheater ensemble.
Albach-Retty was married to the Austro-Hungarian Army officer Karl Albach; she was the mother of Wolf Albach-Retty (1906–1967), an Austrian movie actor who married German movie actress Magda Schneider in 1937. She thereby was the grandmother of Romy Schneider and great-grandmother of Sarah Biasini.
Albach-Retty made her first film appearance in 1930, in Georg Jacoby's Gold on the Street, and made her last appearance in the 1955 remake The Congress Dances directed by Franz Antel. She died in 1980 at the age of 105.
Selected filmography
- Gold on the Street (1930)
- Episode (1935)
- Maria Ilona (1939)
- Hotel Sacher (1939)
- Whom the Gods Love (1942)
- Vienna 1910 (1943)
- Maria Theresa (1951)
- The Spendthrift (1953)
- The Congress Dances (1955)
Decorations and awards
- 1955: Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria[1]
- 1958: Kainz Medal
- 1963: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class[2]
- 1977: Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 7. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
- ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 136. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
- ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 460. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
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- 1874 births
- 1980 deaths
- People from Hanau
- Austrian film actresses
- Austrian stage actresses
- Austrian centenarians
- Austrian people of German descent
- Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
- Recipients of the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 20th-century Austrian actresses