Maria Mayen

Maria Mayen
Maria Mayen 1918 in Tadeusz Rittner's Garden of Youth by Franz Xaver Setzer
Born	11 May, 1892 Vienna
Died	15 July , 1978 (aged 86) Vienna
Occupation	actress

Maria Mayen, née Reimers, (11 May, 1892 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary – 15 July , 1978 in Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian actress.

Life

After training as an actress at the Marie Seebach School in Berlin, Mayen moved to Bonn. where she played her first professional role on stage as a naive young woman. Mayen then returned to Berlin and performed at the Lessing Theater. From 1913, she performed at the Burgtheater in her hometown of Vienna. In 1926, she was awarded the title of Kammerschauspielerin (Actress of the Court).

Mayen was married twice. Her daughter, Elisabeth Urbancic, from her first marriage to a physician named Rudolf Urbantschitsch, became a stage and costume designer in her youth. After divorcing Rudolf Urbantschitsch, Mayen married Emmerich Reimers. Elisabeth is the mother of Academy Award-winning Christoph Waltz.

Theater

• Kollege Crampton, Komödie in fünf Akten von Gerhart Hauptmann, als Agnes
• Hanneles Himmelfahrt. Traumdichtung, Drama in zwei Akten von Gerhart Hauptmann, als Hannele
• The Sunken Bell. Ein deutsches Märchendrama, Versdrama in fünf Akten von Gerhart Hauptmann, als Rautdendelein
• Hamlet, Tragödie von William Shakespeare, als Ophelia
• Cordelia, Oper von Conradin Kreutzer, als Cordelia
• The Winter's Tale, Komödie von William Shakespeare, als Perdita
• Golgatha, Oratorium von Frank Martin
• The Rats, Tragikomödie in fünf Akten von Gerhart Hauptmann, als Alice Rütterbusch

Film

• Das Haus ohne Lachen (1918)
• Konrad Hartls Lebensschicksal (1918)
• Seine tapfere Frau (1918)
• Adrian Vanderstraaten (1919)
• Don Juan (1919)
• Golgatha (1920)
• Donadieu (1962)
• Der Befehl (1967)