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Dagmar Koller is actress, singer, dancer, TV show host, city mayor and wife of Austria's political leaders.
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VIENNA, Austria / Austrian Times / Panorama / August 26, 2009
Dagmar Koller turns 70
By Lisa Chapman
Well-known Austrian actress, singer and dancer Dagmar Koller celebrates her 70th birthday today (Weds).
Koller has appeared in a number of musicals, operettas and films and has hosted the TV show "Hallo wie geht’s?" (Hi, how’s it going?) since 1989.
Koller, who married former Vienna Social Democratic (SPÖ) Mayor Helmut Zilk in 1978, was born in Carinthia. She studied singing and dancing at Vienna’s Academy for Music and the Performing Arts and made her breakthrough as Princess Mi in Franz Lehar’s operetta "Land des Lächelns" in 1964 in Hamburg.
She also appeared in "Irma la Douche," "My Fair Lady" and "Kiss Me Kate" in Germany and in "Man from La Mancha," "Sorbas" and "Smiles of a Summer Night" at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien, as well as in several films of operettas, including "Wiener Blut."
Koller said recently that the death of Zilk last year from cardiac failure had been a crushing psychological blow. "We had a great love," she declared, adding that she was a sad widow but would become a merry widow after her year of mourning ended on 24 October.
"I am healthy and will again be merry, but only after a year of mourning," she said. Koller added she felt like a 55-year-old and did ballet training every morning to stay fit.
Zilk was one of Austria’s most-influential politicians and regarded as one of the opinion leaders in the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ).
He was posthumously accused this past spring of having worked as a spy or informer for the secret service of the former Czechoslovakia.
Documents revealed by magazine profil seemed to confirm speculation that Zilk had earned the equivalent of a few thousand Euros by informing the Communist country about what was going on in Austrian politics and the media in the 1960s.
Zilk, who was working for national broadcaster ORF at the time, went on to become education minister and mayor of capital Vienna. [rc]
Austrian Times
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August 26, 2009
AUSTRIA: At 70 Dagmar Koller is a woman of many parts
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Dagmar Koller is actress, singer, dancer, TV show host, city mayor and wife of Austria's political leaders.
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VIENNA, Austria / Austrian Times / Panorama / August 26, 2009
Dagmar Koller turns 70
By Lisa Chapman
Well-known Austrian actress, singer and dancer Dagmar Koller celebrates her 70th birthday today (Weds).
Koller has appeared in a number of musicals, operettas and films and has hosted the TV show "Hallo wie geht’s?" (Hi, how’s it going?) since 1989.
Koller, who married former Vienna Social Democratic (SPÖ) Mayor Helmut Zilk in 1978, was born in Carinthia. She studied singing and dancing at Vienna’s Academy for Music and the Performing Arts and made her breakthrough as Princess Mi in Franz Lehar’s operetta "Land des Lächelns" in 1964 in Hamburg.
She also appeared in "Irma la Douche," "My Fair Lady" and "Kiss Me Kate" in Germany and in "Man from La Mancha," "Sorbas" and "Smiles of a Summer Night" at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien, as well as in several films of operettas, including "Wiener Blut."
Koller said recently that the death of Zilk last year from cardiac failure had been a crushing psychological blow. "We had a great love," she declared, adding that she was a sad widow but would become a merry widow after her year of mourning ended on 24 October.
"I am healthy and will again be merry, but only after a year of mourning," she said. Koller added she felt like a 55-year-old and did ballet training every morning to stay fit.
Zilk was one of Austria’s most-influential politicians and regarded as one of the opinion leaders in the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ).
He was posthumously accused this past spring of having worked as a spy or informer for the secret service of the former Czechoslovakia.
Documents revealed by magazine profil seemed to confirm speculation that Zilk had earned the equivalent of a few thousand Euros by informing the Communist country about what was going on in Austrian politics and the media in the 1960s.
Zilk, who was working for national broadcaster ORF at the time, went on to become education minister and mayor of capital Vienna. [rc]
Austrian Times
Copyright: © AN News and Pictures
Dagmar Koller is actress, singer, dancer, TV show host, city mayor and wife of Austria's political leaders.
.
VIENNA, Austria / Austrian Times / Panorama / August 26, 2009
Dagmar Koller turns 70
By Lisa Chapman
Well-known Austrian actress, singer and dancer Dagmar Koller celebrates her 70th birthday today (Weds).
Koller has appeared in a number of musicals, operettas and films and has hosted the TV show "Hallo wie geht’s?" (Hi, how’s it going?) since 1989.
Koller, who married former Vienna Social Democratic (SPÖ) Mayor Helmut Zilk in 1978, was born in Carinthia. She studied singing and dancing at Vienna’s Academy for Music and the Performing Arts and made her breakthrough as Princess Mi in Franz Lehar’s operetta "Land des Lächelns" in 1964 in Hamburg.
She also appeared in "Irma la Douche," "My Fair Lady" and "Kiss Me Kate" in Germany and in "Man from La Mancha," "Sorbas" and "Smiles of a Summer Night" at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien, as well as in several films of operettas, including "Wiener Blut."
Koller said recently that the death of Zilk last year from cardiac failure had been a crushing psychological blow. "We had a great love," she declared, adding that she was a sad widow but would become a merry widow after her year of mourning ended on 24 October.
"I am healthy and will again be merry, but only after a year of mourning," she said. Koller added she felt like a 55-year-old and did ballet training every morning to stay fit.
Zilk was one of Austria’s most-influential politicians and regarded as one of the opinion leaders in the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ).
He was posthumously accused this past spring of having worked as a spy or informer for the secret service of the former Czechoslovakia.
Documents revealed by magazine profil seemed to confirm speculation that Zilk had earned the equivalent of a few thousand Euros by informing the Communist country about what was going on in Austrian politics and the media in the 1960s.
Zilk, who was working for national broadcaster ORF at the time, went on to become education minister and mayor of capital Vienna. [rc]
Austrian Times
Copyright: © AN News and Pictures
