The actress Kirsten Dene, audience favorite at Vienna’s Burgtheater, turns 80. Congratulations from dramaturg Hermann Beil.
A song of praise to Kisten Dene on her 80th birthday – that can only be a wondrous, polyphonic song of all the roles she has played since she started at Schauspiel Essen in 1961. Yes, a song, intoned by all her roles, because Dene’s acting made her characters so directly tangible that they live on in the memory of the heart and in the consciousness of the theater: Annabella, Luise, Johanna at the stake, Hete, Kunigunde, Jim Boy , Iphigenie, Leonore Sanvitale, Thusnelda, The Rosalinde in the “Bat”, Heiner Müllers Medea, Mother Courage, Nestro’s wife of Cypressenburg, Eve, Hedwig Tell, Büchner’s Marie, Mascha, Elfriede Jelineks Isolde, Lady Macbeth, Helena, Caliban, Olga, Olga , Lady Bracknell, Mrs. John, Clara, Mrs. Wahl, Mrs. Alving, Agaue, Violet Weston, Yvonne Blume…