As per our current Database, Elfi von Dassanowsky has been died on 2 October, 2007 at Los Angeles, California, USA.
When Elfi von Dassanowsky die, Elfi von Dassanowsky was 83 years old.
| Popular As | Elfi von Dassanowsky |
| Occupation | Producer |
| Age | 83 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Aquarius |
| Born | February 2, 1924 (Vienna, Austria) |
| Birthday | February 2 |
| Town/City | Vienna, Austria |
| Nationality | Austria |
Elfi von Dassanowsky’s zodiac sign is Aquarius. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.
Elfi von Dassanowsky was born in the Year of the Rat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rat are quick-witted, clever, charming, sharp and funny. They have excellent taste, are a good friend and are generous and loyal to others considered part of its pack. Motivated by money, can be greedy, is ever curious, seeks knowledge and welcomes challenges. Compatible with Dragon or Monkey.
A musical prodigy, von Dassanowsky was the youngest female to gain admission to Vienna's Academy (now University) of Music and Performing Arts to be trained as an opera singer and concert pianist. Already a noted performer as a student, she taught Curd Jürgens piano for one of his first major roles in Wen die Götter lieben (1942).
Offered a star film contract by UFA Berlin, she declined it and association with the Nazi party. Her rise to opera stardom after her debut in 1946 was followed by solo concerts for the Allied High Command, concert tours through Central Europe, performances as stage and film actress, work as announcer and performer for Forces Broadcasting and the BBC, and her creation of theatrical groups in Vienna.
In 1946, she co-founded Belvedere Film in Vienna with director Emmerich Hanus and producer August Diglas. As one of the few women in cinema history to create a film studio, von Dassanowsky was instrumental in the postwar rebirth of Austrian film and is today regarded as a female cinema pioneer.
Among her studio's discoveries were European leading lady Nadja Tiller, comic actor Gunther Philipp and future international star Oskar Werner. In 1951 she became an administrator of Phoebus International Films in Hamburg and the first female casting director in postwar Germany.
In Hollywood from 1962, she gave master classes in voice and piano, promoted Austrian culture and cinema in the U.S. and was a renowned vocal trainer, particularly for actors in productions by Otto Preminger.
She became a charter member of the Austrian American Film Association in 1997 and reestablished Belvedere Film in Los Angeles and Vienna in 1999. The cultural foundation she planned before her death in 2007 was established in 2009 as a fund for non-profit arts and educational organizations.
It also sponsors The Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize, a jury award for female filmmakers presented annually by the Vienna Independent Shorts Festival (VIS).
