Nora Waldstätten

Nora Waldstätten
Waldstätten in 2017
Born
Nora Marie Theres Beatrice Elisabeth von Waldstätten[1]

(1981-12-01) 1 December 1981[2][1][3]
Vienna, Austria
Other namesNora von Waldstätten
OccupationActress
Years active2004–present

Nora Marie-Theres Beatrice Elisabeth Waldstätten[nb 1][1][nb 2][3][nb 3] (born 1 December 1981) is an Austrian actress, also formerly known in German productions as Nora von Waldstätten.

Early life and education

Born Nora Marie Theres Beatrice Elisabeth von Waldstätten[1] in Vienna, Austria, on 1 Dezember 1981,[2][1][3] Nora Waldstätten was raised in Baden bei Wien, Austria, the third of four children in a family descended from old Austrian nobility.[3] That ancestry included an "Ur-Ur-Ur-Großmutter, die Baronin von Waldstätten" (a baroness and great-great-great-grandmother), a purported patron of Mozart,[3][4] and a great-grandfather, Egon Freiherr von Waldstätten, an Austrian military general,[4] Court and State Councillor, and scholarly military writer with a decorated career as an officer (e.g., in World War I).[nb 4][nb 5]

As a child, Waldstätten attended the Akademietheater and the Burgtheater, the latter becoming like a second home ("wurde fast ihr zweites Zuhause"); after an unsuccessful period taking aim at being a prima ballerina, she became active at the Stadttheater (Stadttheater Baden), where she had her first speaking role.[4]

Waldstätten left Austria for Berlin, Germany at 19, and in the early 2000s relocated to Prenzlauer Berg, and began to study acting at Berlin University of the Arts soon after,[4][1][3] a course of study that she pursued from 2003-2007.[1] She brought with her into her studies a measure of shyness, insecurity, and fear, the latter of which she is described as having learned to overcome through her acting studies.[4] Writing for Der Tagesspiegel in April 2017, Katja Hübner states that, "die Schauspielschule bot ihr einen Schutzraum, in dem sie sich ausprobieren konnte [drama school offered her a safe space, in which she could experiment]".[4] In that period, she is described as having practiced monologues alongside fellow actress Jutta Lampe, and having sung musical pieces of Bertolt Brecht and Billy Joel.[4]

Career

Film and television work

While in her first year of her acting studies, she took on her first commercial film role.[4]

In 2004 and 2005, Waldstätten had small roles, credited as von Waldstätten, in Constantin von Jascheroff's Jargo,[5][1] and Christoph Hochhäusler's Falsche Bekenner.[6][1] In 2008, she co-starred alongside Sabrina Ouazani in Irene von Alberti's German-Moroccan film, Tangerine.[7][3] As described by Antje Wewer of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, she first became more widely known through her role as a student murderer in the episode "Herz aus Eis" [Heart of Ice] (2009), in the series, Tatort, a police procedural.[3][1] She received the New Faces Award in 2009 for her performance in that series.[4] In addition, she acted in the film Schwerkraft (Gravity, 2009),[3] for which she was honored with the Max Ophüls Prize for best female newcomer, at the 31st Max Ophüls Film Festival (January 2010).[8]

In a drama with international casting, Waldstätten appeared as the role of Magdalena Kopp in Olivier Assayas' 2010 miniseries, Carlos,[3] about the convicted Venezuelan murderer and terrorist, "Carlos the Jackal";[9] the role was honored at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, and was awarded a Golden Globe in 2011. In 2011 she appeared in a short film as a testimonial for the Austrian beverage bottler Vöslauer.

In 2012, she starred in the international TV adaptation of Ken Follett's novel World Without End, and in 2015 in the Austrian TV series Altes Geld. In 2016, she starred in Olivier Assayas' 2016 work, Personal Shopper with Kristen Stewart and Lars Eidinger, which won Best Director award for Assayas at Cannes.

Between 2014 and 2022, Waldstätten starred alongside Matthias Koeberlin in 15 feature-length episodes of the German-Austrian TV crime series Murder by the Lake.

Theatrical work

Since 2007, Waldstätten has played in several productions at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. There, she appeared in the Jelinek play Über Animals.[1] In 2010, she also appeared in two plays at the Schauspiel Köln.

Personal life

With regard to the presentation of her name, Waldstätten's view, also shared by Hübner,[4] is that an Austrian law that eliminated the nobility in that country also forbade use of noble titles; hence, while at the beginning of her career in Germany, Waldstätten used "von Waldstätten" as a stage name, as of 2010, Waldstätten was generally not using the "von" of her birth name, publicly.[3] In Germany, where use of the "von" is not restricted, she continued to use it until the end of 2016.

As of this date, Waldstätten lived in Berlin.

Awards and recognition

Awards That Waldstätten has Won
Year Award Category Nominated work Result Citation
2009 New Faces Award Best Young Actress Tatort, Ep. "Herz aus Eis" Won [4]
2010 Max Ophüls [Film Festival] Prize Best Female Newcomer Gravity [Schwerkraft] Won [8]
2015 Film Festival Cologne Awards International Actors Award Life Eternal Won [10]

Further reading

  • BZ-Berlin Staff (18 April 2016). "Nora von Waldstätten: "Mittlerweile sind Kinder für mich ein Thema"". BZ-berlin.de (in German). Retrieved 10 December 2022.

Notes

  1. ^ Note, there is no substantiation in current sourcing for the hyphenation in "Marie-Theres".
  2. ^ This full name, preceded by "Baronesse" and sans the hyphen, appears in a personal disclosure to an English news publication, the Daily Express, as quoted in the Rheinische Post.[1]
  3. ^ Note, a titular reference to "Baroness" and the presented name, "Nora Marie Theres von Waldstätten", appears in the Antje Wewer (31 October 2010) citation, an interview in Süddeutsche Zeitung.[3]
  4. ^ As source of these details, see Egon von Waldstätten.
  5. ^ The only current source of this career information for Egon Freiherr von Waldstätten is the German Wikipedia, from which no verifiable sources are available for transfer in, in support of the appearing description. (Their lack of utility of these dated German-language sources, as verifiable here, lies in their incompleteness—lack of volume numbers, page numbers, digital locations, etc.)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Bluhm, Franziska (23 February 2009). "Nora von Waldstätten: Die schöne Skrupellose aus dem Tatort". RP-online.de (in German). Retrieved 28 September 2021. Die in Wien geborene Schauspielerin absolvierte von 2003 bis 2007 ihr Schauspielstudium an der Universität der Künste Berlin... 'Mit vollem Namen heiße ich Baronesse Nora Marie Theres Beatrice Elisabeth von Waldstätten', sagte die 1981 geborene Schauspielerin kürzlich dem Express.'
  2. ^ a b Marx, Wolfgang (30 November 2017). "Promi-Geburtstag vom 1. Dezember 2017: Nora Waldstätten" [Celebrity birthday of December 1, 2017: Nora Waldstätten]. Volksstimme (in German).
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Wewer, Antje (31 October 2010). "Nora von Waldstätten im Gespräch: Eine Baroness zum Promillieren" (interview). Sueddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 10 December 2022. Nora Marie Theres von Waldstätten, geboren 1981 in Österreich, wuchs als drittes von vier Kindern in Baden bei Wien auf... / von Waldstätten: Nach dem Ende der Habsburger Monarchie wurde 1918 in Österreich der Adel radikal abgeschafft. Seither werden Titel nicht mehr in offiziellen Dokumenten wie dem Reisepass geführt. So ein Titel ist schon lange nichts mehr wert, und das ist auch richtig so. In Deutschland ist das anders, da darf der Titel im Personalausweis geführt werden.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Hübner, Katja (29 April 2017). "Schauspielerin Nora Waldstätten: Wiener Schnitzel and Schmäh" [Actress Nora Waldstätten: Viennese Schnitzel and Edgy Warmth]. Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 28 January 2018. Nora Waldstätten ist Schauspielerin. Sie war Magdalena Kopp in „Carlos–Der Schakal" und die Marie in „Woyzeck", sie spielte in „Tatort" und „Nachtschicht", in Filmen von Wolfgang Murnberger und Josef Hader. ...dieses Adelsprädikat hatte man 1919 in Österreich abgeschafft... Mit fünf Jahren war sie das erste Mal im Akademietheater, die Burg wurde fast ihr zweites Zuhause. Als Mädchen tanzte sie Ballett, und als sich ihr großer Traum, eine Primaballerina zu werden, wegen mangelhafter Pirouetten zerschlug, nahm sie am Stadttheater ihre erste Sprechrolle an. Ein Weihnachtsmärchen. ... Im Studium hat sie gelernt, über ihren Schatten zu springen. Sie war unsicher und schüchtern, aber die Schauspielschule bot ihr einen Schutzraum, in dem sie sich ausprobieren konnte. Sie sang Texte von Bertolt Brecht und Lieder von Billy Joel... Zusammen mit der Schauspielerin Jutta Lampe übte sie Monologe, schon im ersten Studienjahr bekam sie ihre erste Filmrolle. For the preceding translation of "Schmäh" as "Edgy Warmth"—often otherwise formally defined in reference to sarcasm, snide humour, charm, or "jokiness" [see The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (1999) and German-English version of CollinsDictionary.com (2026)]—see Luft, David S. (18 October 2022). "Wiener Schmäh and the Americans". Journal of Austrian-American History. 6 (2): 174–179. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.6.2.0174. Retrieved 24 February 2026. [W]hat the Viennese call "Wiener Schmäh"... [is] a kind of Mit-Sein couched in an aggressive irony that we might describe as Gemütlichkeit (coziness, warmth, friendliness) with an edge. Schmäh often relies on compliments that are insults or on insults that are compliments.
  5. ^ Filme-Sprache Administrator (26 August 2005). "Jargo von Maria Solrun—guter deutscher Jugend-Film" (film review). Film-Sprache.de (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  6. ^ Suchsland, Rüdiger (2005). "Falsche Bekenner" (film review). Artechock.de (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  7. ^ Suchsland, Rüdiger (2008). "Tangerine" (film review). Artechock.de (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  8. ^ a b Prot, Bénédicte (25 January 2010). "Gravity Triumphs at Max Ophüls Fest". Cineuropa.org. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
  9. ^ Morenne, Benoît (28 March 2017). "Carlos the Jackal Receives a Third Life Sentence in France". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  10. ^ FFCGN Staff (2026) [2015]. "International Actors Award" (list of award winners). FilmFestival.cologne. Cologne, Germany (CGN): Film Festival Cologne (FFCGN). Retrieved 24 February 2026. 2015 Nora von Waldstätten
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