Waltraut Haas

Waltraut Haas was born on Jun 09, 1927 in Austria. Waltraut Haas's big-screen debut came with Der Hofrat Geiger directed by Hans Wolff in 1947.

Waltraut Haas (also Waltraud Haas und Waltraute Haas-Strahl) was born in Wien (Vienna) in 1927. She was the daughter of teacher Walther Haas and his wife Stefanie Klager. When she was five, her father died and she grew up at Schloss Schönbrunn, where her mother was a restaurateur. After the war she took acting classes from actress Julia Janssen and studied music at the Konservatorium für darstellende Kunst in Vienna. In 1946, Haas made her stage debut in the Landestheater Linz, and was discovered by Willi Forst for her first film, the Heimat comedy Der Hofrat Geiger/Counsellor Geiger (1947, Hans Wolff) starring Paul Hörbiger and Hans Moser. She played Mariandl Mühlhube, the illegitimate daughter of a woman (Maria Andergast) who runs an inn in the picturesque Wachau valley and the role made her famous. After this success, Haas continued to combine theater and film. From 1948 on she played at the Renaissance Theatre and other Vienna venues. Later she also played in Munich and Berlin. In the cinema she appeared in comedies and operettas, such as Es liegt was in der Luft/There's something in the air (1950, E.W. Emo) with Lucie Englisch, Hallo Dienstmann/Hello Dienstmann (1952, Franz Antel) with Paul Hörbiger, and the fantasy 1. April 2000/April 1, 2000 (1952, Wolfgang Liebeneiner) starring Hilde Krahl. She appeared opposite Heinz Rühmann and Oliver Grimm in the popular dramatic comedy Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne/If the Father and the Son (1955, Hans Quest) and supported ski champion Toni Sailer in Der schwarze Blitz/The Black Stallion (1958, Hans Grimm).