The fact that when you think of the actress Elisabeth Trissenaar you immediately think of the director Hans Neuenfels, who died in 2022, is by no means anti-feminist, in the sense of: Trissenaar? That’s the wife of… You could just as easily say: Neuenfels? That was the man from the Trissenaar! The two formed such a close, symbiotic theater and life community that one would have been unthinkable without the other. Like F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, like Yoko Ono and John Lennon, like Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Elisabeth Trissenaar and Hans Neuenfels belong to the ranks of great artist couples who inspired and inspired each other and created something third, new out of their shared passion. Trissenaar, the Viennese beauty with the dark curls and the sensual, smoky voice, was for Neuenfels not only the most important protagonist of his radical, often scandalous production art, but also the man of life, the soul sister, the great love until death. She would have been called his “muse” in the past. He, who was also a talented writer, dedicated the line to her: “You were never entrusted to me / you are innate to me.”
The actress Elisabeth Trissenaar died at the age of 79: an obituary – culture
