Favourite Vienna actress dies in house fire

Favourite Vienna actress dies in house fire

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norman lebrecht

December 12, 2021

The exceptional stage actress Gertraud Jesserer has died in an apartment fire in Vienna’s 9th district. She was four days short of 78 years old.

A pillar of the Burgtheater from 1973, Jesserer covered Shakespeare and Schnitzler, Hoffmanstahl, Brecht and Chekhov with equal aplomb. She made numerous films and much TV, retiring in 2012.

 

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