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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
   
• Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg    b. February 3, 1736  d. March 7, 1809
  Composer. A theorist and teacher in addition to being a composer, he wrote primarily in the "Galant" style, which was a courtly transitional phase between the Baroque and Classical periods, and his music is noted for its skillful use of counterpoint. Born in Klosterneuburg, Austria, he was initially trained as a choirboy, studying music at a Benedictine seminary. He was later a provincial organist before settling in Vienna, Austria in 1765. There he served as Imperial Court Organist from 1772...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Saint Marxer Friedhof Cemetery, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
   
• Alexander, Peter    b. June 30, 1926  d. February 12, 2011
  Entertainer. An Austrian singer and actor, nicknamed "Peter the Great" by his fans, he came to symbolize his country's return to prosperity after World War II with his wit and charm. Alexander first rose to fame in the 1950s with appearances in dozens of film comedies and and scores successful recordings. He parodied the vocal styles of many famous German-language singers, including Zarah Leander, Marlene Dietrich, and Hans Moser. He also performed with Leila Negra and Louis Armstrong...[Read More] (Bio by: Rudi Polt)
  Grinzinger Friedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
  Plot: Gruppe 7, Reihe 1, Nr. 12
   
• 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
   
• Amalia Wilhelmina of Brunswick-Lüneburg   b. April 21, 1673  d. April 10, 1742
  Austrian Monarch. She was the youngest of the four daughters of Johann Friedrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duke of Hanover and Benedikte Henriette of Simmern. She married Joseph I in 1699 who infected her with a venereal disease. In the following three years she gave birth to three children, Maria Josepha, [Read More] (Bio by: Lutetia)
  Cause of death: Dropsy
  Kapuzinergruft, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
  Plot: Charles Crypt
   
• 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
   
• Aslan, Raoul    b. October 16, 1886  d. June 18, 1958
  Actor. Performer of Armenian origin who came from Greece to Austria. The director of "Burgtheater" from 1945 to 1948, he was the member of its ensemble since 1920. The first "Kammerschauspieler" title holder in Austria.
  Cause of death: heart attack
  Grinzinger Friedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
   
• Austria, Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold II of   b. May 5, 1747  d. March 1, 1792
  Austrian Monarch. From 1765 to 1790 he ruled the grand duchy of Tuscany where his constitutional reforms removed restrictions on industry and personal freedoms imposed by his Medici predecessors. These acts, which included a system of rational taxation and profitable public works, earned him the reputation of an "exemplar of democracy." By contrast, his short reign as Emperor, from 1790 to 1792, was over shadowed by revolutionary unrest in France, aggression by both Prussia and Russia and...[Read More] (Bio by: Samuel Taylor Geer)
  Saint Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
  Plot: His heart is in urn 23 in the Herzgruft in the Augustinerkirche and he is buried in tomb 113 in the Imperial Crypt in the Kapuzinerkirche.
   
• Banner, John    b. January 28, 1910  d. January 28, 1973
  Actor. Fondly remembered for his role of 'Sergeant Schultz' in the classic 1960s television sitcom "Hogan's Heroes" (1965 - 1971). An Austrian actor of Jewish descent in his hometown of Vienna, he was forced to leave when Germany and Austria unified in 1938, at the age of 28, during the Anschluss (union) between the two countries. There are reports that he spent time in a German Concentration Camp, but these are unconfirmed. At the time of the Anschluss, he was touring Switzerland with an...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
  Cause of death: Abdominal hemorrhage
  Mauer Cemetery, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
  Plot: Group 57, row 2, number 26
   
• 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
   
• Beethoven, Ludwig Van [original burial site]    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)
  Währinger Friedhof (Defunct), Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
  Plot: (Now Schubert Park, Vienna).
   
• 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
   
• Berg, Alban    b. February 9, 1885  d. December 24, 1935
  Composer. The "romantic" of the Second Viennese School, he was a disciple of Arnold Schoenberg and adopted his methods of atonal and later 12-tone (or serial) composition. Berg achieved compelling emotion and great melodic expressiveness in his music, qualities that have made it more accessible to listeners. His landmark opera "Wozzeck" (1925) brought him international fame. Based on Georg Buchner's tragedy about a...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Hietzinger Friedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
   

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