Rosa Albach-Retty, Austrian actress, 105th birthday
Dec. 12, 1979 - Rosa Albach-Retty, Austrian actress, becomes 105 years old: The Great Old lady of the Burgh theater in Vienna so she is called - the actress Rosa Albach-Retty, now she becomes 105 years old, on 26 December she celebrates this rare birthday! Under the title Hundred years are very short the mother of Wolf Albach-Retty and the grandmother of well known actress Romy Schneider published a year ago her memoirs, in which the surely oldest writer of the world wrote about her private and professional life and her meetings with Emperor Franz Josef, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Helmuth von Moltke, Otto von Bismarck and a lot of prominent actors, film-directors, painters and so on. The actress Rosa Albach-Retty was the preferred partner of the well known actor Josef Kainz and went on tour with him. Since 1895 she worked in Vienna, first at the German Volkstheater then from 1903 for 55 years at the Burgtheater (of which she is honorary member). She lives at the present time in Vienna, Austria
