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Franziska Kinz


Foto: Alexander Binder (1888-1929)

1897 - 1980

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The actress Franziska Kinz was successful as a singer as well as an actress. She studied acting in 1924 by Ritz Basil and got her first engagement in the same year at the Staatstheater München.
In the next years she gave guest performances in Darmstadt, at the Kammerspielen Berlin and at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Later followed engagements in Vienna and Munich.

She made her film debut with the silent movie "Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen" (29).
In 1930 followed her first talky called "Väter und Söhne" (30). 
In the 30's she appeared in other movies like "Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen" (30), "Hitlerjunge Quex" (33), "Flüchtlinge" (33), "Wilhelm Tell" (34), "Mazurka" (35) and "Frau Sixta" (38).

Franziska Kinz was engaged with the politician and opponent of the NS regime Carlo Mierendorff (1897-1943). When he came to the concentration camp in 1933 and later into prison their way became separated and Franziska got married with a regime loyal journalist.
Still Franziska Kinz spoke up for Mierendorff's release which became a fact in 1938. Carlo Mierendorff died in a bunker during an air raid in 1943.

Franziska Kinz only took part in few movies during wartime, among them "Aus erster Ehe" (40), "Die Kellnerin Anna" (41) and "Nora" (44).
She was able to continue her career successfully after the war and experienced especially in the 50's a very busy decade.
To her well-known movies of the 50's belong "Unsere liebe Frau" (50), "Christina" (53), "Anastasia - Die letzte Zarentochter" (56), "Nachtschwester Ingeborg" (58) and "Der Schäfer vom Trutzberg" (59).
 

Other movies with Franziska Kinz: 
Tannenberg (32) Eine Siebzehnjährige (34) Standschütze Bruggler (36) Ein Volksfeind (37) Les rusque-tout (40) Im Schatten des Berges (40) Wir sehn uns wieder (45) Der Geigenmacher von Mittenwald (50) Die schöne Tölzerin (52) Moselfahrt aus Liebeskummer (53) Oberarzt Dr. Solm (54) Moselfahrt aus Liebeskummer (53) Das Mädchen vom Pfarrhof (55) Die Försterbuben (55) Beichtgeheimnis (56) Bademeister Spargel (56) Ein Amerikaner in Salzburg (58) Mein ganzes Herz ist voll Musik (58) ...und nichts als die Wahrheit (58) La vache et le prisonnier (59) Lass mich am Sonntag nicht allein (59) Der Schleier fiel (60) 


 
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