Friedel Anna Maria Czizek (Maria Holst)

She attended the theatre school in Prague, the Comédie Française in Paris and the Max Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna. She debuted at the Landestheater in Linz in 1935 and the next year she moved to the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. In 1937 she performed at the Stadttheater in Brünn and in 1938 she was engaged at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

In 1939 she left for Berlin and Munich, returning to the Burgtheater afterwards and staying there until 1945. In 1940 Willy Forst selected her for the part of Marie Geistinger in the succesful movie "Operette". In 1942 she appeared in Forst's movie version of "Wiener Blut", the operetta by Strauss. In 1944 she married the painter Eugen Graf Ledebur.

After the war she was on the stage in Vienna, Stuttgart, Bad Hersfeld and Berlin. From 1949 onwards she made many more movies. She divorced Ledebur and her second husband was Dr. Rudolf Röttgers (1919-1976) from Berlin. With him she had a daughter in 1957, Elisabeth. Her last movie was "Lockvogel der Nacht" (1959). After that she only worked for the theatre. She died tragically when she choked on a meal in 1980.

Source: http://androom.home.xs4all.nl/biography/p016459.htm

Filmography/actress in:

1959 Das große Messer (TV Movie)  Marion Castle

1959 Lockvogel der Nacht  Lea Amsel

1958 Es war die erste Liebe  Marianne Bergmann

1956 Ein Herz kehrt heim  Irene Thomas

1956 Die Trapp-Familie  Prinzessin Yvonne

1956 Liebe, die den Kopf verliert  Leonie Waldau

1955 Ein Mann vergißt die Liebe  Brigitte

1954 Weg in die Vergangenheit  Adrienne Monti

1954 Rosen aus dem Süden  Marylin Parker

1954 Die süßesten Früchte  Irina

1953 Kaiserwalzer  Kaiserin Elisabeth von Österreich

1953 Von Liebe reden wir später  Angela Bell

1952 Mein Herz darfst du nicht fragen  Clarissa von Birkhausen

1952 Tausend rote Rosen blüh'n  Marita

1951 Wenn die Abendglocken läuten  Gloria Römer

1951 Grün ist die Heide  Mona von Buckwitz

1951 Im Banne der Madonna  Dina Matthissen

1950 Vom Teufel gejagt  Dr. Cora Berndsen

1949 Die Reise nach Marrakesch  Armande Colbert

1949 Mordprozeß Dr. Jordan  Leonie Leborius

1949 Märchen vom Glück  Danielle

1944 Hundstage  Ingeborg Kirchner

1944 Der gebieterische Ruf  Dr. Christine Exner

1942 Wiener Blut  Gräfin Melanie Wolkersheim

1940 Operette  Maria Geistinger

1936 Lumpacivagabundus  Amorosa

1936 Burgtheater  Fritzi

1933 Unsichtbare Gegner  Source: imdb.com

Quelle: https://www.steffi-line.de/archiv_text/nost_buehne/07h_holst.htm