# Rosa Albach-Retty > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rosa_Albach-Retty > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rosa_Albach-Retty.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Albach-Retty > Source revision: 1345344448 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Austrian actress (1874–1980) Rosa Albach-Retty Rosa Albach-Retty c. 1902 Born Rosa Clara Franziska Helene Retty (1874-12-26)26 December 1874 Hanau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire Died 26 August 1980(1980-08-26) (aged 105) Baden bei Wien, Lower Austria, Austria Occupation Actress Spouse Karl Walter Albach Children Wolf Albach-Retty Relatives Romy Schneider (granddaughter) Sarah Biasini (great-granddaughter) **Rosa Albach-Retty** (born **Rosa Clara Franziska Helene Retty**; 26 December 1874 – 26 August 1980) was an Austrian film and stage actress.[1] ## Life Born into a well-known family of actors, she was the daughter of actor and director [Rudolf Retty](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rudolf_Retty&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Retty)]. Trained by her father, she began her stage career in 1890 at the [Deutsches Theater](/source/Deutsches_Theater_(Berlin)) and the [Lessing Theater](/source/Lessing_Theater) in Berlin, where she performed as Franziska on *[Minna von Barnhelm](/source/Minna_von_Barnhelm)*.[1] [Hermann Sudermann](/source/Hermann_Sudermann) wrote his play *[Die Schmetterlingsschlacht](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Die_Schmetterlingsschlacht_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Schmetterlingsschlacht_(Theaterst%C3%BCck))]*, which premiered in 1894 at the Lessing Theater, for her.[1] She was also known for [breeches roles](/source/Breeches_role) in *[Little Lord Fauntleroy](/source/Little_Lord_Fauntleroy)*[2] and *[The Merchant of Venice](/source/The_Merchant_of_Venice)* (1909 at the Burgtheater).[3] In 1895, she went to the [Volkstheater](/source/Volkstheater%2C_Vienna) in Vienna and in 1903 joined the [Burgtheater](/source/Burgtheater) ensemble, where she received the title of *Hofschauspielerin* (Actress of the Court) in 1912.[4] She became an honorary member of the Burgtheater in 1928 and in 1958, she gave her final performance.[4] She was married to the [Austro-Hungarian Army](/source/Austro-Hungarian_Army) officer Karl Albach; she was the mother of [Wolf Albach-Retty](/source/Wolf_Albach-Retty) (1906–1967), an Austrian movie actor who married German movie actress [Magda Schneider](/source/Magda_Schneider) in 1937. She was the grandmother of actress [Romy Schneider](/source/Romy_Schneider) and great-grandmother of actress [Sarah Biasini](/source/Sarah_Biasini). Albach-Retty made her first film appearance in 1930, in [Georg Jacoby](/source/Georg_Jacoby)'s *[Money on the Street](/source/Money_on_the_Street)*, and made her last appearance in the 1955 remake *[The Congress Dances](/source/The_Congress_Dances_(1955_film))* directed by [Franz Antel](/source/Franz_Antel). She died in 1980 at the [age of 105](/source/Centenarian), not long after she had published her autobiography *So kurz sind 100 Jahre* for her hundredth birthday. Her grave of honour and that of her son are located in the [Vienna Central Cemetery](/source/Vienna_Central_Cemetery) (group 32 C, number 50).[5] ## Ties to the Nazis This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The proximity of Rosa Albach-Retty to the [NS Regime](/source/Nazism) is well documented. The annexation of Austria to [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany) in 1938 was celebrated by her in the *[Kleine Volks-Zeitung](/source/Oesterreichische_Volks-Zeitung)*. Rosa Albach-Retty's membership in the [NSDAP](/source/Nazi_Party) is not proven, but she and her husband were supporting members of the [SS](/source/Schutzstaffel). As a celebrity of the public and a confessed admirer of [Hitler](/source/Adolf_Hitler), Rosa Albach-Retty was courted by the Nazi cultural policy and included in the so-called "God-privileged List" of the National Socialists. None of this did anything to diminish the esteem in which Albach-Retty was held after the end of the Nazi regime, as the awards she received after 1945 prove. Even a Viennese municipal building was named after her: the Rosa-Albach-Retty-Hof in the 19th district, built in the 1970s. Grave of Albach-Retty at Vienna's [Zentralfriedhof](/source/Zentralfriedhof) ## Selected filmography This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) - *[Money on the Street](/source/Money_on_the_Street)* (1930) - *[Episode](/source/Episode_(film))* (1935) - *[Maria Ilona](/source/Maria_Ilona)* (1939) - *[Hotel Sacher](/source/Hotel_Sacher_(film))* (1939) - *[Thrice Wed](/source/Thrice_Wed)* (1941) - *[Whom the Gods Love](/source/Whom_the_Gods_Love_(1942_film))* (1942) - *[Vienna 1910](/source/Vienna_1910)* (1943) - *[Maria Theresa](/source/Maria_Theresa_(film))* (1951) - *[Adventure in Vienna](/source/Adventure_in_Vienna)* (1952) - *[The Spendthrift](/source/The_Spendthrift_(1953_film))* (1953) - *[The Congress Dances](/source/The_Congress_Dances_(1955_film))* (1955) - *Klaus Peter Dencker in conversation with Rosa Albach-Retty. A production of Saarländischer Rundfunk / Television (45 minutes)* (1979) ## Decorations and awards - 1955: [Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria](/source/Grand_Decoration_of_Honour_for_Services_to_the_Republic_of_Austria)[6] - 1958: [Josef Kainz](/source/Josef_Kainz) Medal[4] - 1960: Medal of Honour of the City of Vienna[4] - 1963: [Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class](/source/Austrian_Cross_of_Honour_for_Science_and_Art%2C_1st_class)[7] - 1977: [Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria](/source/Grand_Decoration_of_Honour_in_Silver_for_Services_to_the_Republic_of_Austria)[8] ## Literature - Rosa Albach-Retty (1978). Gertrud Svoboda-Srncik (ed.). [*So kurz sind hundert Jahre. Erinnerungen*](https://archive.org/details/sokurzsindhunder0000alba). Munich, Berlin: Herbig. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-7766-0864-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-7766-0864-1). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [5031371](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/5031371) – via [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive). - Robert Kittler: *Rosa Albach-Retty. Ein Leben für das Theater.* Diss. University Vienna, Vienna 1958 - [Oliver Rathkolb](/source/Oliver_Rathkolb): *Führertreu und gottbegnadet. Künstlereliten im Dritten Reich.* Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1991, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-215-07490-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-215-07490-7) - Robert Teichl: *Österreicher der Gegenwart. Lexikon schöpferischer und schaffender Zeitgenossen.* Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1951 - Jürgen Trimborn: *Romy und ihre Familie*. Droemer, Munich 2008, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-426-27451-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-426-27451-5) ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Munzinger_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Munzinger_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Munzinger_1-2) ["Rosa Albach-Retty"](https://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=00000015374), [Munzinger-Archiv](/source/Munzinger-Archiv) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Role photo"](https://www.theatermuseum.at/de/object/546431/) as "Der kleine Lord", c. 1895, [Austrian Theatre Museum](/source/Austrian_Theatre_Museum) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["*Der Kaufmann von Venedig* playbill](https://www.theatermuseum.at/online-sammlung/detail/1414150/?offset=66&lv=list), 23 December 1909, Burgtheater, [Austrian Theatre Museum](/source/Austrian_Theatre_Museum) 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-AEIOU_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-AEIOU_4-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-AEIOU_4-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-AEIOU_4-3) [Rosa Albach-Retty](https://austria-forum.org/af/AEIOU/Albach-Retty,_Rosa) in *[Austria-Forum](/source/Austria-Forum)* (in German) (at AEIOU) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Albach-Retty, Rosa "](https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/118501356), Hessian Biography 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Reply to a parliamentary question"](http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf) (PDF) (in German). p. 7. Retrieved 4 March 2013. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Reply to a parliamentary question"](http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf) (PDF) (in German). p. 136. Retrieved 4 March 2013. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Reply to a parliamentary question"](http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf) (PDF) (in German). p. 460. Retrieved 4 March 2013. ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Rosa Albach-Retty](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Rosa_Albach-Retty). - [Rosa Albach-Retty](http://www.filmportal.de/person/rosa-albach-retty_268f8dd37f3d4864a75bfe48d2934d49) on filmportal.de - [Rosa Albach-Retty](https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Rosa_Albach-Retty) in the Vienna History Wiki - [Audio and video recordings of Rosa Albach-Retty](https://www.mediathek.at/portalsuche?searchId=52244743) in the Online Archive of the [Österreichischen Mediathek](/source/%C3%96sterreichische_Mediathek) - [Rosa Albach-Retty](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0016207/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - ["Collection of photos and playbills"](https://collection.theatermuseum.at/objekte/suche?q=Albach-Retty&query=Albach-Retty&cHash=92971b80ed8e929f55542d8e6aef7818), [Austrian Theatre Museum](/source/Austrian_Theatre_Museum) [Portals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Portals): - [Biography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Biography) - [Film](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Film) - [Austria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Austria) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND FAST WorldCat National United States Czech Republic Netherlands Artists FID People Deutsche Biographie DDB Other IdRef SNAC Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Rosa Albach-Retty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Albach-Retty) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Albach-Retty?action=history)). 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