Austrian chamber actress Elisabeth Orth is dead

The Austrian chamber actress Elisabeth Orth is dead. The older sister of TV star Christiane Hörbiger died on Saturday at the age of 89, as the Wiener Burgtheater announced, citing Orth’s family. Orth’s career was closely intertwined with the traditional stage. As a long -standing member of the ensemble, she was appointed an honorary member and even at the beginning of 2015 as the Doyenne of the house. In addition to acting, she actively campaigned against racism.

Orth was the first child of the Austrian on February 8, 1936 Skill Paula Wessely and Attila Hörbiger born in Vienna. The desire to become an archaeologist was quickly talked about by the father. Like her two younger sister Christiane and Maresa Hörbiger, she also successfully stepped into the footsteps of her famous parents.

Career path through theater in Germany

After her training at the renowned Max Reinhardt seminar, she was active in many German houses. She played at the Ulm Theater, on the stages of the city of Cologne, at the Munich Bavarian State Theater and on the Berlin Schaubühne. Since the end of the 1960s, she has often been a guest at the Salzburg Festival. To get from serious legacy of the acting dynasty To solve, she took off the family name early and used the name of her grandmother’s maternal side.

Her most important venue was the Burgtheater, where she had been a permanent member of the ensemble since 1973. There she shone, for example, as a clarification in Goethe’s « Egmont » or as Princess Eboli in Schiller’s « Don Carlos ». She celebrated great successes in productions by the German theater director Andrea Breth, with whom orth was closely and privately connected.

Commitment to racism

In contrast to her sister Christiane Hörbiger, she appeared much less often in front of the camera. She was seen in 1978 in the two -part « Lemmme » of the Oscar winner Michael Haneke or in 1997 in the award -winning home film « Die Siebtelbauern » by Stefan Ruzowitzky. In 2003 she performed in the historical film “Marie Bonaparte” by Benoit Jacquot alongside Catherine Deneuve.

Apart from acting, Orth was strongly socially political. She campaigned against racism and for refugees and was President of the « campaign against anti -Semitism ». In her book “Fairy tales of her life – my parents Attila Hörbiger and Paula Wessely” she worked on her parents’ Nazi past. (dpa)