Christine Buchegger obit

Austrian actress Christine Buchegger Has died 

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Christine Buchegger was born in Vienna to Maria Buchegger originating from Pettenbach in Upper Austria. After finishing school she attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar, the School of Drama at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria, for two years. Bucheggers first engagement was at the Vereinigten Bühnen Graz in Styria, afterwards she worked at the Linz State Theatre (Landestheater Linz) and the Wiener Volkstheater.

Reinhardt Seminar in Palais Cumberland

In 1972 she moved to Munich to play at the Bavarian State Theatre (Bayerische Staatsschauspiel) where she continued working until the 1990s. Important roles there included Fontanelle in Edward Bonds Lear (1973), Eliante in Der Menschenfeind (1975), Irina in Drei Schwestern (1978, directed by Ingmar Bergman), Kassandra in Agamemnon (1978), the lead role in Ibsens Hedda Gabler (1979) and the 'Buhlschaft' in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival 1979 with Maximilian Schell in the lead role.

From 1980 she took a break from acting and returned 1984 to the stage performing Johanne Luise Heiberg in Per Olov Enquists Aus dem Leben der Regenwürmer and the Mutter in Frühlings Erwachen (1992).

She played in the 1972 American thriller film directed by Lee H. Katzin, starring Barry Newman and Anna Karina.

Buchegger died on 3 March 2014 in Munich unexpectedly during minor surgery. She was 71 years old and is buried at the Nordfriedhof in Munich in an urn grave.

Filmography

 

1960: Glocken läuten überall

1961: Das Land des Lächelns

1964: Die Schneekönigin

1966: Das Märchen

1970: Rebell in der Soutane

1971: Der Fall Eleni Voulgari

1972: Sultan zu verkaufen

1972: Das Hohelied

1972: The Salzburg Connection

1973: The Pedestrian

1973: Inferno [sv]

1975: Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua

1975: Derrick - Season 2, Episode 2: "Tod am Bahngleis"

1975: Lady Dracula (released: 1978)

1976: Graf Yoster: "Der Ton macht die Musik"

1976: Graf Yoster: "Undank ist der Welt Lohn"

1976: The Elixirs of the Devil [de]

1977: Disorder and Early Torment [de]

1977: Abelard [de]

1977: Travesties

1978: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre

1978: Derrick - Season 5, Episode 1: "Der Fotograf"

1979: Derrick - Season 6, Episode 3: "Schubachs Rückkehr"

1980: From the Life of the Marionettes

1985: Wind von Südost

1986: Derrick: "Ein eiskalter Hund"

1989: Derrick - Season 16, Episode 7: "Schrei in der Nacht"

1991: Derrick: "Penthaus"

1992: Mord im Wald

1993: Dann eben mit Gewalt

1993: Der rote Vogel

1994: Endloser Abschied

1994: Der Salzbaron [de] (TV series)

1994: Derrick: "Nachts, als sie nach Hause lief"

1996: Liebe, Leben, Tod

1999: Frische Ware

1999: Die Rache der Carola Waas

1999: Der Schandfleck

2000: Nicht mit uns

2002: Rosamunde Pilcher: Mit den Augen der Liebe