Silvia Glogner

Silvia Glogner (19 November 1940 in Berlin, Germany - 7 September 2011 in Linz, Austria ) was a German actress.

Biography
In 1956, she attended the Fritz-Kirchhot-Schule (also known as "Der Kreis"), one of the oldest drama schools in Berlin, where she studied with Paul Günther and received ballet training. She had her first engagement at the age of 16 at the Staatstheater Braunschweig. This was followed by engagements at the Komödie Basel, the city theaters of Karlsruhe, Augsburg, Cologne, Dortmund and Lübeck. In 1976, she was brought to the Linz State Theatre by theater director Alfred Stögmüller. After working there for eleven years, she had a two and a half year long engagement in St. Gallen, after which she came back to Linz.

She died in Linz on the night of September 6-7, at the age of 70, as a result of a breast cancer, that was diagnosed in 2006.

Selected roles
Throughout her career, she played hundreds of roles such as:


 * "Gretchen" in Goethes Faust
 * "Mutter Wolffen" in "Biberpelz" by Gerhard Hauptmann,
 * "Mutter Courage" in "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht,
 * "Maria Stuart" in "Maria Stuart" by Friedrich Schiller,
 * "Atossa" in "The persians"
 * "Grollfeuer" in "Volksvernichtung oder mein Leben ist sinnlos" by Werner Schwabs
 * "Frau Zittel" in "Heldenplatz" by Thomas Bernhard

Awards

 * 2004: Kulturmedaille (Upper Austria) of the state of Upper Austria
 * 2008: Ehrenzeichen (Upper Austria) of the state of Upper Austria
 * September 4, 2011: The honorary title of Kammerschauspieler
 * 2012: The Glognerweg, a street in Pichling in south-east Linz was named after her.