Birgit Doll was an Austrian actress of stage, screen and television and theatre director.
18 Facts About Birgit Doll
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Birgit Doll made her professional theatre debut at the age of 20 and won the Kainz Medal in 1992 for her performance of Libussa and the Nestroy Theatre Prize in 2000 for portraying Martha in Edward Albee's Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf.
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Birgit Doll went on to enroll at the Max Reinhardt Seminar to train as an actress.
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Birgit Doll did not require input dramaturge upon drawing upon world literature individuals.
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Birgit Doll received her first professional theatrial engagement at the Salzburger Landestheater when she was aged 20, and went on to portray roles at Vienna's Volkstheater.
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Birgit Doll earned the Kainz Medal in 1992 for her performance of Libussa by Franz Grillparzer at the Volkstheater, and the Karl Skraup Prize for her roles in the plays Nora and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen.
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Birgit Doll played as Martha in Edward Albee's Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf, for which she received one of Austria's most prestigious theatre accolades, the Nestroy Theatre Prize for best actress, in 2000.
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Birgit Doll portrayed the lead role of Marianne opposite Helmut Qualtinger in the 1979 Maximilian Schell adaption of the film Tales from the Vienna Woods.
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Birgit Doll went on to be in the film Dantons Tod opposite Gotz George in 1981, was Charlotte Salomon in the film Charlotte, and Kathi in the 1984 film Der Zerrissene.
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Birgit Doll was the lead role as a refugee called Anna in the 1998 film Suzie Washington directed by Florian Flicker.
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Birgit Doll was Jude de Tutelles in the 1999 production Die Sekretarin des Weihnachtsmanns, Mamma and Bokcls Freundein in the 2000 Austrian films Ternitz, Tennessee and Hold-Up respectively.
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Birgit Doll had roles in the television programmes Der Gorilla, Ein Fall fur zwei, Liebling Kreuzberg, The Old Fox, Der letzte Zeuge, Siska, Polizeiruf 110, Tatort and Fast Forward.
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Birgit Doll has earned the Best Actress Award at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and the Best Actress Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1980.
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Birgit Doll was a leading role in the jazz opera Fear Death by Water by composer and jazz musician Franz Koglmann in mid-2003.
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Birgit Doll was theatre director of the plays Hamlet, Meisterklasse The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, M Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Falstaff, and Tales from the Vienna Woods.
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Birgit Doll suffered a severe stroke and died of complications on 26 October 2015 at age 59.
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Birgit Doll was always drawn towards a Nora or Medea.
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Birgit Doll felt more connected to the strong female characters.