Your agency confirmed a report in the online edition of the “Tiroler Tageszeitung” on Friday evening. The funeral will take place at her own request in the immediate family circle, it said.
Most recently, Gschnitzer lived in Elsbethen near Salzburg. There she was made an honorary citizen before her 90th birthday. Gschnitzer, born on December 21, 1931 in Innsbruck, has been on the stages that mean the world since her debut at the Tiroler Landestheater in 1951 until old age. The role of Jedermann’s mother at the Salzburg Festival, which she has held since 2013, was the essential culmination of a stage career that was second to none.
Gschnitzer achieved widespread popularity with the role of “Frau Vejvoda” in the cult series “A real Viennese does not go under” aka “Mundl”. She played the Tyrolean mother of “Nudlaug” Franzi, the friend of Edmund Sackbauer’s daughter Hanni. This made Julia Gschnitzer part of an unforgettable piece of Austrian television history.
