Theater and Film Actress Lotte Ledl Dies at 95

Her career took her from the Volkstheater to the Munich Residenztheater and the Burgtheater, and she performed on stage at various venues until old age. However, she owed her popularity primarily to her appearances on television and in cinema.

In her long theater career, the Vienna-born actress on March 16, 1930, was seen at the festivals in Recklinghausen, Bregenz, and Salzburg and developed a repertoire ranging from Austrian classics like Nestroy and Schnitzler to Goldoni, Lessing, Brecht, and Shakespeare. At the same time, international guest performances took her to numerous capitals, extending Ledl's professional vita from Paris to Helsinki and from Stockholm to Bangkok. She performed on stage until old age, for example, in 2011 as the goddess Fortuna in "Lumpazivagabundus" at the Theater in der Josefstadt or in 2019 at the Berndorf Festival in "Katzenzungen".

Lotte Ledl: Between "Young Törless" and "Schlosshotel Orth"

Parallel to her theater career, Ledl appeared in cinematic works in the 1950s and 1960s such as "Up There Where the Alps Glow", "Holiday at Wörthersee", "The Virgin War" or "My Father, the Ape and I", but also in Volker Schlöndorff's "Young Törless", where she played the role of the innkeeper. Overall, the Viennese actress rarely played the role of the charming beauty, but was often the envious rival, grumpy wife, or malicious neighbor - a role type that also persisted throughout much of Ledl's television career.

From "Derrick" to "Der Alte", from "Tatort" to "Kommissar Rex" to "Heiteres Bezirksgericht", Ledl was always present when justice was broken or served on TV. Finally, from 1996, she took on her probably most popular role to date as the cook Anna Kofler in the successful series "Schlosshotel Orth". All this led to her crowning as a chamber actress in 2019, which the then 89-year-old acknowledged with a laconic: "I am pleased to be among the youngest chamber actresses".

(APA/Red)

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