2024-02-15 11:51:41
The actress Johanna von Koczian is dead. She fell asleep peacefully in Berlin surrounded by her family on Tuesday at the age of 90, her former agent told the German Press Agency on Thursday, citing the family. Johanna von Koczian became famous in the 1970s with the song “The Little Household”. In the hit, the Berlin native made fun of men’s pascha behavior.
In the actress’s vita, the hit is just one stage in a career spanning more than 60 years: Born on October 30, 1933 in Berlin, she studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg from 1950 to 1952 and had her first engagements at the Salzburg Festival, in Tübingen and Wuppertal , before she played at the Schillertheater and the Schlosspark Theater in West Berlin. They ranged from Kleist, Shakespeare and Lessing to “Praxis Bülowbogen” and “Landarzt”. She wrote books and hosted television shows (“Do You Recognize the Melody?”).
At the age of 77, she landed a stage success in 2010 at the Kudamm Theater, where the trained soprano appeared in the comedy “Glorious!” played the “worst opera singer in the world”. The audience laughed in tears as von Koczian squeaked through the great arias. “It is the suffering of the ears and the joy of the diaphragm, simply to curl up on the armchairs,” said the “Berliner Morgenpost”. The actress was previously honored with the Golden Curtain theater award for the solo “Oskar and the Lady in Pink”. This closed a circle: Von Koczian, who was also engaged at the Residenztheater in Munich and the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt, played “The Cactus Blossom” 400 times on Kurfürstendamm.
In the early Federal Republic of Germany, the daughter of an Austrian kuk captain was considered by some to be the “German Audrey Hepburn”. She began her film career in 1957 with the color film remake of the comedy “Viktor und Viktoria”. Her breakthrough came in Kurt Hoffmann’s “We Wunderkinder” (1958) alongside Hansjörg Felmy. There was the Federal Film Prize for this. With Hoffmann she also made the Dürrenmatt film adaptation “The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi” (1961).
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