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Franziska Kinz

Born
Feb 21, 1897 · Aged 83
Died
Apr 26, 1980
Place of birth
Kufstein, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Gender
Female
Movie credits
30
TV credits
0
Also known as (1)
  • Franziska Amalia Kinz

Biography

Franziska Kinz was a singer, stage and film actress. In 1924, she studied with Fritz Basil. After 4 months, he gave her a job at the Staatstheater in Munich. In 1930, she played in Darmstadt, in 1933, at the Kammerspielen, Schiller and Deutschen Theater in Berlin, and afterwards, in Vienna and Munich. In 1929, she made her first film, _Tagebuch einer Verlorenen, Das (1929)_ ("Diary of a Lost Girl"), and her first talkie was Väter und Söhne (1930) (aka "Das Geheimnis der Ehe". Die Kellnerin Anna (1941) ("Anna la serveuse", "The Waitress Anna") included Elfriede Datzig as her daughter. She…