Angelika Hauff
Austrian actress
Angelika Hauff
Born (1922-12-15)15 December 1922
Died 3 December 1983(1983-12-03) (aged 60)
Other names Alice Paula Marie Suchanek Occupation Actress Years active 1943 — 1980 (film) Angelika Hauff (1922–1983) was an Austrian stage and film actress. She worked prolifically as a film actress in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War appearing in the lead roles in several successful films that included The Marriage of Figaro and Dark Eyes (1951). A versatile actor, she appeared in a variety of cinematic genres in Germany and Austria and attained international recognition in French, English and Italian films. She was a preeminent stage actress with the prestigious Vienna Burgtheatre portraying classic German language roles and being awarded the highest acting honours.
Hauff was born Alice Paula Marie Suchanek in Vienna on December 15, 1922. In her youth she was an aspiring ballet dancer at the Vienna State Opera. She studied Drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar (Reinhardt Seminar) now part of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In 1942 she began her professional career with an engagement at the Salzburg State Theatre.
Her film career was an immediate success. She had a debut minor role in Herbert Maisch’s Music in Salzburg followed in 1943 by her first major role as Bettina Altoff in Arthur Rabenhalt’s escapist circus film Zirkus Renz. Throughout the late 1940s through to the early ‘60s she was in constant demand as a screen actor appearing in numerous Austrian and German films. Hauff made four further films before the end of the Second World War and in its aftermath she appeared in films made in both parts of Germany. She starred opposite heartthrob Rudolf Prack in the Austrian romance The Queen of the Landstrasse in 1948. In 1949 in the DDR she starred as the femme fatale Susanna in a film adaptation of The Marriage of Figaro