Rosa Albach-Retty

Rosa Albach-Retty (born Rosa Clara Franziska Helene Retty; 26 December 1874 – 26 August 1980) was an Austrian film and stage actress.

Life Born into a well-known family of actors, she was the daughter of actor and director . Trained by her father, she began her stage career in 1890 at the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater in Berlin, where she performed as Franziska in Minna von Barnhelm. and The Merchant of Venice (1909 at the Burgtheater). In 1895, she went to the Volkstheater in Vienna and in 1903 joined the Burgtheater ensemble, where she received the title of Hofschauspielerin (Actress of the Court) in 1912. She became an honorary member of the Burgtheater in 1928 and in 1958, she gave her final performance.

Ties to the Nazis

Ties to the Nazi regime The proximity of Albach-Retty to the National Socialist regime is well documented. Following the 1938 annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany, she enthusiastically celebrated the Anschluss in the Kleine Volks-Zeitung.

While her official membership in the NSDAP remains unproven, both she and her husband were supporting members (förderndes Mitglied) of the SS. 1958: Josef Kainz Medal 1977: Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria

Literature

Robert Kittler: Rosa Albach-Retty. Ein Leben für das Theater. Diss. University Vienna, Vienna 1958 Oliver Rathkolb: Führertreu und gottbegnadet. Künstlereliten im Dritten Reich. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1991, Robert Teichl: Österreicher der Gegenwart. Lexikon schöpferischer und schaffender Zeitgenossen. Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1951 Jürgen Trimborn: Romy und ihre Familie. Droemer, Munich 2008,