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Albach Retty, Rosa b. December 26, 1874 d. August 26, 1980
Actress. She made her motion picture debut in "Money On the Street" in 1930, and in the following years she appeared in films such as "Hotel Sacher," "Maria Ilona" and "Adventures in Vienna." She was mother of actor Wolf Albach Retty and grandmother of actress Romy Schneider. (Bio by: MC)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Albach Retty, Wolf b. May 28, 1906 d. February 21, 1967
Actor. A popular leading man in Austrian cinema, he made his motion picture debut in the silent "Das grobe Hemd." Some of his well know works were roles in the filns "The Black Hussar," "Tales from Vienna Woods" and "Hotel Sacher." He was the son of actress Rosa Albach Retty, and the father of actress Romy Schneider. (Bio by: MC)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group 32 C, Number 50
Altenberg (Englander), Peter (Richard) b. March 9, 1859 d. January 6, 1919
Author. He was a well-known Viennese literary figure in the years before World War I. Altenberg noted the world around him with witty, aphoristic little sketches that blurred the line between poetry and prose. To keep them brief he often composed them on the backs of postcards. Typical of his observations are "There is only one thing indecent with nakedness, and that is to find nakedness indecent", and "A happy couple: he does what she wants, and she does what she wants". They were...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Amery, Jean Hans Mayer b. October 31, 1912 d. October 17, 1978
Author. An Austrian writer and commentator on current affairs, he was in the concentration camps at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Bregen Belsen, in the years 1943 to 1945. His works fight against the violations of humanity.
Cause of death: suicide
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group 40, Nr. 132
Anday, Rosette b. December 12, 1903 d. December 22, 1977
Opera Singer. A leading contralto of mid-20th Century Europe, she was one of the youngest ladies ever to be designated "kammersangerin", a German honorific title for distinguished singers. Raised in Budapest, she studied both violin and voice at that city's conservatory. Rosette received her break when she was heard by the Vienna State Opera's director and was signed for her September 23, 1921, debut as the title 'heroine' of George Bizet's "Carmen". After bowing in a major role she had the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Apostel, Hans Erich b. January 22, 1901 d. November 30, 1972
Composer. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, he moved to Vienna in 1921 and studied with Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg, becoming a faithful disciple of their atonal expressionist techniques. He won the Hertzka Prize for his Requiem (1937), inspired by Berg's death. In 1938 Apostel's music was banned as "degenerate" by the Nazis but he continued to write in his own manner, supporting himself through private teaching. After World War II he headed the Austrian section of the International Society for...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: 32.c.57
Artmann, Hans Carl "H. C." b. June 12, 1921 d. December 5, 2000
Austrian poet, writer. Also known as Ib Hansen. He grew up in Vienna trilingually, so he had a strong interest in language. He brought out some works of Villon in Austrian. In 1947 he appeared with his first publications in the newspaper "Neue Wege." In 1951 he joined the "Art Club," then in 1952 he founded the "Wiener Gruppe" for avantgarde artists. In 1973 he was also a founding member of the "Anti P.E.N. Club." He earned several awards for his achievements in literature. He died from a heart...[Read More] (Bio by: Apats)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Askin, Leon b. September 18, 1907 d. June 3, 2005
Actor. Best known for playing 'General Albert Burkhalter' in the 1960s classic television series, "Hogan’s Heroes." Leon was born into a Jewish family in Vienna. He started his career a nine year-old boy reciting a 17-stanza eulogy for Emperor Francis Joseph in front of the city hall of Vienna's ninth district. He went on to work as a cabaret artist in the 1930s. He would then have to flee to France, and later to the United States to escape persecution by the Nazis. He would even serve in the...[Read More] (Bio by: The Perplexed Historian)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Bauernfeld, Eduard von b. January 13, 1802 d. August 9, 1890
Playwright. He helped broaden the scope of 19th Century German-language theatre. His farces and comedies of manners offered thinly-veiled social and political satires of his era, written in an offhand, almost flippant style to get around the censors. The most popular included "The Dear Protocol" (1831), "The Confessions" (1834), "The Middle Class and the Romantics" (1835), "Coming of Age" (1846), "The Categorical Imperative" (1851), "Modern Youth" (1869), and "The Rich Heiress" (1876)...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group 32A
Bayer, Josef b. March 6, 1852 d. March 12, 1913
Composer, Conductor. As director of the Austrian Court Ballet from 1883, he was musical leader of his country's ballet scene for 30 years. Bayer's stage works did little to advance the genre to an art form, but the best of them still have the power to charm with their light, toe-tapping melodies. "The Fairy Doll" (1888), his best known effort, was very popular in Europe right up until World War I. It remains a repertory staple at the Vienna State Opera, where it has been performed...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group 0, Row I, Grave 66
Beethoven, Ludwig Van b. December 16, 1770 d. March 26, 1827
Composer, Pianist. Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, the son and grandson of musicians at the Bonn court. The family ancestry was Flemish. He was baptized on December 17, 1770, and based on practices of the day it is commonly assumed he was born the day before. His father Johann was an abusive alcoholic, bitter at being consigned to singing in the choir. When young Ludwig showed precocious abilities in music, Johann hoped to exploit him as a child prodigy and subjected him to a brutal course...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group 32 A, Number 29
Behrens, Hildegard b. February 9, 1937 d. August 18, 2009
Opera Singer. A dramatic soprano, she was acclaimed for her Wagnerian interpretations in venues the world over. Raised in northern Germany by a well-off family, she studied piano and violin as a child, and graduated from the University of Freiberg as an attorney, while singing in the choir. After vocal training, she made her professional debut as the Countess in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" at Freiberg in 1971. The first of Behrens' 171 appearances (made thru 1999) at New York's...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Berger, Erna b. October 19, 1900 d. June 14, 1990
Opera Singer. Erna Berger studied with Melitta Hirzel and Hertha Boeckel making her stage debut at the Dresden Staatsoper in 1925. She stayed with the company until 1928 singing many small roles at first, including a part in the World Premier of Busoni's "Doktor Faust" in 1925. By 1926 she was given larger parts and in 1927 she sung the title role of Paul Graener's "Hannales Himmelfahrt" at the World Premier, as well as smaller roles in the World Premiers of Strauss's "Agyptische Helena (1928)...[Read More] (Bio by: Harmonie Autographs and Music, Inc.)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Bettauer, Hugo b. August 18, 1872 d. March 26, 1925
Austrian novelist, journalist and playwright. One of his most famous novels is Die freudlose Gasse (The Joyless Street), which was filmed by G. W. Pabst with Greta Garbo, and he was also famous for his anti-Nazi satire of anti-semitism Die Stadt ohne Juden (The State without Jews), which was subsequently made into a play and then filmed, with Hans Moser. In 1925 he was assassinated by a Nazi Party follower. (Bio by: Rudi Polt)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Billroth, Theodor b. April 26, 1829 d. February 6, 1894
Medical Pioneer. He was the first surgeon on the world to achieve success against stomach cancer by removing a part of the stomach.
Cause of death: heart attack
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Bittner, Julius b. April 9, 1874 d. January 9, 1939
Composer, Librettist. One of Austria's most frequently performed opera composers in the years before World War II. Bittner's distinctively nationalist stage works, for which he wrote his own texts, were fantasies based on folk or fairy tales and typically set in the Alps. "The Infernal Gold" (1916) was his greatest success. His other operas include "The Red Greed" (1907), "The Musician" (1909), "The Mountain Lake" (1911), "The Rose Garden" (1923), and "The Violets" (1934). Bittner...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group 32C, No. 15
Boesch, Ruthilde b. January 9, 1918 d. January 20, 2012
Opera Singer. A coloratura soprano, she is remembered for her long career at the Vienna State Opera (VSO). Raised in Modling, she studied at the Vienna Music Academy with bass Alfred Jerger and made her 1945 professional and VSO bow as Susanna from Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro". Ruthilde was to be heard at the venerable house 387 times in 38 roles up to 1974, her noted portrayals including several Mozartian characters, among them, in addition to Susanna, Barbarina in "The Marriage of Figaro"...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Boltzmann, Ludwig b. February 20, 1844 d. September 5, 1906
Physicist. He is best remembered for his development of statistical mechanics to explain and predict how the properties of atoms determine the visible properties of matter. Born Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann his father was a government revenue official. He received his primary education at home from a private tutor and attended high school in Linz, Austria. In 1863 he studied physics at the University of Vienna, receiving his PhD degree in 1866, with his dissertation being on the kinetic theory...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group 14C, Number 1
Boskovsky, Willi b. June 16, 1909 d. April 21, 1991
The most famous first violin player of one of the world's bestclassic orchestra "Wiener Philharmoniker."
Cause of death: Natural causes
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group33G, Number 78
Brahms, Johannes b. May 7, 1833 d. April 3, 1897
Composer. He ranks as one of the major figures of 19th Century music. During his lifetime Brahms was called "Beethoven's Heir" because his music united great expressive freedom with rigorous Classical form. He is known for his four symphonies and concertos, his vocal and chamber works, and his music for solo piano. Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany. His father, a poor doublebass player, taught him the fundamentals of music, and by age nine he was a gifted pianist. He also started composing...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group 32 A, Number 26 (next to Johann Strauss, Jr.)

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