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- Birth nameMaria Katharina Schratt
- Katharina Schratt was born on September 11, 1853 in Baden, Lower Austria, Austrian Empire. She was an actress, known for The Great Cattle War (1920). She was married to Nikolaus Kiss de Ittebe. She died on April 17, 1940 in Vienna, Austria.
- SpouseNikolaus Kiss de Ittebe(1879 - 1880) (separated, 1 child)
- She was one of Vienna's big stars at the Burgtheater, from 1883 to 1900. And the best best friend of Austria's King: Emperor Franz Josef.
- It is said that Franz Joseph's wife Empress Elisabeth ( Sisi)actually promoted the relationship between the actress and the Emperor. After Elisabeth's murder in 1898, their relationship continued, with one interruption (1900/01, due to a difference in opinions), until his death in November 1916.
- Katharina Schratt was the only daughter of an office supplies dealer.
- In her later years, Schratt became deeply religious. She died in 1940 at the age of 86. She was buried at Hietzinger Cemetery in Vienna.
- Although she already lived in seclusion for many years Katharina Schratt accepted a role offer for a movie in 1920. In Franz Osten's "Der Ochsenkrieg" (1920) she played at the side of Thea Steinbrecher, Fritz Greiner, Lia Eibenschütz, Fritz Kampers and Ernst Rückert in her only movie.
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