Helene Thimig
{{short description|Austrian actress}}
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{{Infobox person
| image = Helene Thimig LCCN2014717410.jpg
| caption = Thimig {{circa}} 1910
| name = Helene Thimig
| birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1889|06|05}}
| birth_place = Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age |df=yes|1974|11|07|1889|06|05}}
| death_place = Vienna, Austria
| birthname = Helene Ottilie Thimig
| othername = Helen Thimig
| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1907–1972
| spouse = Max Reinhardt (1935–1943; his death)
Anton Edthofer (1948–1971; his death)
| parents = Hugo Thimig
Franziska "Fanny" Hummel
| relatives = Hermann Thimig (brother)
Hans Thimig (brother)
}}
Helene Ottilie Thimig (5 June 1889 – 7 November 1974) was an Austrian stage and film actress.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/helene-thimig-p70513|title=Helene Thimig | Movies and Filmography|website=AllMovie}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1c274a7|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727213417/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1c274a7|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 July 2019|title=Helene Thimig profile|website=BFI|accessdate=21 December 2021}}
Personal life
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Helene Thimig was the daughter of actor Hugo Thimig and the sister of actors Hermann and Hans Thimig.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=prqcCgAAQBAJ&q=helene+thimig+obituary&pg=PA347|title=Who's Who In Hollywood!|first=Terry|last=Rowan|date=27 July 2015|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=9781329074491|via=Google Books}}
Thimig was married to the stage impresario Max Reinhardt from 1935 until his death in 1943.{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/thimig-helene-1889-1974|title=Thimig, Helene (1889–1974)|website=encyclopedia.com|accessdate=21 December 2021}} Thimig went into exile in the United States during the Nazi era, and returned to Europe after World War II.
Sutter Fichtner, Paula. Historical Dictionary of Austria, Scarecrow Press (2009), page 299.
Professional life
Returning to Vienna from her American exile, she headed the Max Reinhardt Seminar, an acting school, from 1948 to 1954.{{Cite web |title=Die Geschichte des Max Reinhardt Seminars |url=https://www.maxreinhardtseminar.at/geschichte/ |access-date=2022-09-11 |website=Max Reinhardt Seminar Homepage}} Beginning in 1946, she directed the Jedermann productions during the Salzburg Festival. She had played the female lead (Faith) in that play for years under Reinhardt's direction and resumed the role from 1946 to 1951 and 1963 to 1965. She became an ensemble member at Vienna's Burgtheater in 1947; she moved to the Theater in the Josefstadt (her preferred company) in 1954.{{Cite web |date=2022-06-09 |title=Helene Thimig |url=https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Helene_Thimig |access-date=2022-09-11 |website=Wien Geschichte Wiki}}
She died in her native Vienna in 1974, aged 85, of heart failure.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/08/archives/helene-thimig-dies-viennese-actress.html|title=Helene Thimig Dies; Viennese Actress|date=8 November 1974|newspaper=The New York Times|page=42|accessdate=24 September 2019}} She was cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering; her ashes are now buried in Neustifter Friedhof in Vienna.{{Cite web |title=Thimig, Helene |url=https://androom.home.xs4all.nl/biography/p015213.htm |access-date=2022-09-11 |website=The Androom Archives}}
Selected filmography
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- Man Without a Name (1932) - Eva-Maria Sander
- The Gay Sisters (1942) - Saskia
- The Moon Is Down (1943) - Annie (uncredited)
- Edge of Darkness (1943) - Mrs. Frida Malken (uncredited)
- The Hitler Gang (1944) - Angela Raubal
- The Seventh Cross (1944) - Frau Anders (uncredited)
- Strangers in the Night (1944) - Mrs. Hilda Blake
- The Master Race (1944) - Matalie Rudan - George's Mother (uncredited)
- None But the Lonely Heart (1944) - Sister Nurse (uncredited)
- Roughly Speaking (1945) - Olga - Maid (uncredited)
- Hotel Berlin (1945) - Frau Sarah Baruch
- Isle of the Dead (1945) - Madame Kyra
- This Love of Ours (1945) - Mrs. Tucker
- Cloak and Dagger (1946) - Katerin Lodor
- The Locket (1946) - Mrs. Monks
- High Conquest (1947) - Frau Oberwalder
- Cry Wolf (1947) - Marta
- The Immortal Face (1947) - Henriette Feuerbach
- Escape Me Never (1947) - The Landlady
- Gottes Engel sind überall (1948) - Eine Dame in Grau
- The Angel with the Trumpet (1948) - Gretel Paskiewicz, geb. Alt
- Die Stimme Österreichs (1949) - Herself
- Decision Before Dawn (1951) - Fräulein Paula Schneider
- Undine (1955, TV movie)
- Das Mädchen vom Pfarrhof (1955) - Gerber-Leni, Sepps Mutter
- Winter in the Woods (1956) - Baronin Henny
- Die Magd von Heiligenblut (1956) - Kraeuter-Vetti
- Funken in der Asche (1962, TV movie) - Helene Langer
- Johann Wolfgang (1969, TV movie)
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References
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Bibliography
- Sutter Fichtner, Paula. Historical Dictionary of Austria. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0858162}}
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Category:Austrian stage actresses
Category:Austrian film actresses
Category:Actresses from Vienna
Category:People who emigrated to escape Nazism
Category:20th-century Austrian actresses
Category:Austrian expatriate actresses in the United States
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