Adele Neuhauser (born 17 January 1959 in

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n actress. She began her career as a theater actress. Later she also worked for television and cinema. She is a member of the Akademie des Österreichischen Films.

Life

Adele Neuhauser was born in Athens but moved at the age of four with her family from Greece to

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, where she grew up. Her mother left the family with Neuhauser's half-brother and Neuhauser and her brother stayed with their Greek father George. Later she grew up alone with him. At the age of ten she cut her

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and until the age of twentyone she tried several times more to commit suicide.Friederike Leibl
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,'' print edition January 1, 2011 Retrieved on June 14, 2011Joachim Schmitz
''Adele Neuhauser: Dunkle Seiten, helle Seiten. Über Suizidversuche in der Jugend und ihre Rolle als Wiener „Tatort“-Kommissarin.''
interview in ''Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung'', May 28, 2011 Retrieved May 28, 2011 After separating from her husband , ORF (Austrian Broadcasting) ''Thema'' from 12 September 2011. Neuhauser moved to Vienna. Their son, (*1987) studied jazz guitar in Graz and in

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, before becoming a professional musician and composer of film music. She likes to hike, mostly on her own. Neuhauser's grandparents from the

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were academic painters. Her brother, Peter Marquant, followed in their footsteps. The

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on the

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were created by her grandfather. Because her grandfather was of the opinion that there should be only one painter in the family, her grandmother turned to the production of

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figures and worked for the

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n. Her great-grandmother, although not subjected to persecution by the Nazis race laws, went voluntarily with her

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husband to the

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where both died.

Career

Neuhauser wanted to be an actress since she was six. 1976 - 1978 she trained as actor at the

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''Schauspielschule Krauss''. In her early twenties she moved to

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and began to play at theaters in

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, Essen, Regensburg, at the Staatstheater Mainz and occasionally also in Vienna. Neuhauser gained nationwide attention for playing as woman

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at the Stadttheater Regensburg. In addition, she also starred in movies (''Helden in Tirol'', ''Gone – eine tödliche Leidenschaft'', ''

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'', ', '' 3faltig'') and television series (''

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'') and became widely known for her distinctive voice, in particular through her role of the farmer's wife Julie Zirbner in the

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production '' Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall''. In 2008 Neuhauser underwent a vocal cord surgery due to deposits and a

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on the

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. The pitch of her voice has thus increased a little and she has since then not been addressed anymore on the phone as "Mr. Neuhauser". Since 2010 she plays the alcohol-dependent former

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investigator Bibi Fellner who suffers from Burnout syndrome and works on the side of

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(as Moritz Eisner) in the Viennese Tatort produced by the ORF.

Filmography (incomplete)

Theater (incomplete)

* 1986: '' Nachtasyl'' ( Grillo-Theater in Essen) * 1990: '' King Ubu'' ( Wiener Schauspielhaus) * 1991: ''

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'' ( Staatstheater Mainz) * 1992: ''Quartett'' (Theater Erlangen) * 1996-1998: ''Präsidentinnen'' (Theater Erlangen) * 1999: '' Maria Stuart'' ( Theater Regensburg) * 1999: ''

'' (Theater Regensburg) * 2000: '' Macbeth'' (Theater Regensburg) * 2000: '' Meisterklasse'' (Theater Regensburg) * 2000: '' Macbeth'' (Theater Regensburg) * 2000: ''

'' (Theater Regensburg) * 2010/2011: ''Unschuldsvermutung'' (Rabenhof Theater, Vienna) as '' Karl-Heinz Grasser''

Awards

* 1996: Darstellerpreis Bayerische TheatertageAgentur Scenario: Adele Neuhauser – Facts
, accessed 29 May 2011 * 2012: Romy Film- und Fernsehpreis as ''Beliebteste Seriendarstellerin'' (most popular actor/actress in TV series) * 2013: Romy Film- und Fernsehpreis as ''Beliebteste Seriendarstellerin'' (most popular actor/actress in TV series) * 2014: Grimme-Preis for ''Tatort: Angezählt''

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References

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