Hanna Rieber

Hanna Rieber ( he, חנה ריבר; 28 January 1927 – 9 September 2014) was a Romanian-born Israeli actress of stage, screen and television. She performed on stage at the Haifa Municipal Theatre, the Orna Porat Children's Theater, the Beersheba Theater (of which the latter three she co-established) and the Yiddishpiel. Rieber was awarded the Fringe Lifetime Achievement Award by the Golden Hedgehog Association for her work and contribution to the non-institutional theater field in 2013.

Biography

Rieber was born in Romania on 28 January 1927. She had one brother. Rieber began her career in acting at the Bucharest Yiddish Studio Theater from which she would later graduate. There, she had roles in ''The Threepenny Opera'' and ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' and earned the National Award for Acting as a result. In 1963, Rieber emigrated to Israel when she was at the age of 37.

She was a co-founder of the Haifa Municipal Theatre, the Orna Porat Children's Theater and the Beersheba Theater, and also acted at the same establishments. Rieber also acted in various other theatres that were either small or institutionalised across Israel such as the library theatre. At the Haifa Municipal Theatre, she performed such roles in the plays ''The Rose Tattoo'' by Tennessee Williams and 's ''Parcels from America'', ''Sodom and Gomorrah'', ''Pygmalion'', ''Peter Pan'', ''Uncle Vanya'', ''Richard III'' and ''Hedda Gabler'' among others. Rieber performed in the plays ''Tales from the Vienna Woods'', ''Drums in the Night'', ''Hunting Pictures'', ''Mephisto'' and ''Poetry,'' and ''Juno and the Paycock'' at the Beer Sheva Municipal Theatre. She also had roles in the plays ''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme'' and ''Conversations with My Father'' at the Beit Lessin Theater. Rieber also performed at the Yiddishpiel, having roles in ''Sweet Days of Winter'', ''The Enchanted Tailor'', ''8 Women'' and '' It's Hard to be a Jew'' among others. At the Children's and Youth Theater she starred in the plays ''Sarah, the Heroine of Nili'', ''The Magic Peacock'' and ''Gan Dror'' as well as having roles in '' True West'', ''Whale Song'', and ''The Gobler'' at the Library Theatre.

Rieber also had roles in cinema and television. She played the role of Mrs. Zimmerman in the 1972 film ', Anita in ' in 1975, the grocery store owner in ' in 1981, the buyer in the following year's film ', ''Kayitz Etzel Erika'' in 1992, Vania in the 1995 television series ' and the 1995 film '. Rieber has a guest role in the 1999 television series ''Tironoot'', and as a grandmother in the 2005 Cannes Film Festival winning entrant, the student film '. In 2009, she played the role of the comfort in the film '. The following year, Rieber was in the television series ' and ' and was cast as Mrs. Trachtenberg for the 2012 sitcom ''Bnot HaZahav''. The next year, she played Malka Shtisel in the first season of the television drama ''Shtisel''. In 2014, Rieber had roles in as Miriam, Ruhama in ''The Farewell Party'', Bird in ''Hanna's Journey'' the grandmother in ''Grounded'' and in ''Atlit''. Her final film role was playing the role of Hanga in the 2015 production ''Everything Else''. She was a member of and was on the council of the . Rieber received the Fringe Lifetime Achievement Award by the Golden Hedgehog Association for her work and contribution to the non-institutional theatre field in 2013.

Personal life

On the morning of 9 September 2014, Rieber died at her home in Tel Aviv. She was given a funeral at one day later.

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1927 births
2014 deaths
Actresses from Tel Aviv
20th-century Israeli actresses
21st-century Israeli actresses
Romanian emigrants to Israel
Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Israeli stage actresses
Israeli film actresses
Israeli television actresses