Johanna von Koczian is dead: actress died at the age of 90

The actress Johanna von Koczian is dead. She fell asleep peacefully in Berlin surrounded by her family on Tuesday at the age of 90, her former agent told the German Press Agency on Thursday, citing the family. Johanna von Koczian became famous in the 1970s with the song “The Little Household,” one of the biggest hits of that time.

Johanna von Koczian died at the age of 90

She appeared with it in the “Hit Parade” and Dieter Thomas Heck swept the show steps. But her career, which spanned more than 60 years, was much more than just one song about the household and “a little bit of ironing”. The actress was known as “the German Audrey Hepburn” and had already appeared on stage under Gustaf Gründgens.

Their spectrum ranged from Kleist, Shakespeare and Lessing to “Praxis Bülowbogen” and “In aller Friendship”. She wrote books and hosted television shows (“Do You Recognize the Melody?”). At the age of 77, she achieved success in 2010 at Berlin’s Kudamm Theater, where the trained soprano starred in the comedy “Glorious!” played the “worst opera singer in the world”. The audience laughed in tears.

Koczian’s film career began in 1957 with the comedy “Viktor und Viktoria”. She made her breakthrough in Kurt Hoffmann’s “We Wunderkinder” (1958) alongside Hansjörg Felmy. Her stations included the Residenztheater in Munich and the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. The mother of one daughter was married to the music producer Wolfgang Kabitzky, who died in 2004, for almost 40 years.

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