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Senta Berger: Roles
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Berger then took private acting lessons. In 1957, she won her first small role in a film. She applied for the Max Reinhardt Seminar, a famous acting school in Vienna, and was accepted. However, shortly afterwards she was forced to leave, because she had accepted a film role without permission. In 1958, she became the youngest member of the Josefstadt Theatre in Vienna. Her ambition was still to be a film actress.
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Producer Artur Brauner offered Senta an important role in his film "Der Brave Soldat Schwejk" and tied her to a long-term contract. Brauner gave Senta star parts in several minor films but independently of Brauner, Senta ... secured roles in various other movies including "The Secret Ways" co-produced by and starring Richard Widmark. The film unit spent six months in Vienna and there seems to have been some trouble with director Phil Karlson. Widmark himself directed during the last two weeks of production. Then Carl Foreman offered Senta a part in "The Victors" as Elke Sommer's sister. Foreman was later to say that the two actresses did not see eye to eye, but as that was also their relationship in the movie, nothing was done to bring them together.
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The birth of her two sons caused Senta to turn back to theatre work. She successfully played at the Burgtheater in Vienna, at the Thaliatheater in Hamburg and at the Schillertheater in Berlin. Between 1974 and 1982, she played the “Buhlschaft” in the play Jedermannn at the Salzburg Festival with Curd Jürgens and Maximilian Schell. One of her greatest movie roles of the period was co-starring with Schell and James Coburn and in the acclaimed war movie Cross of Iron (1977). In 1985−86, Berger started a comeback in front of German-speaking audiences in the very popular TV serial Kir Royal. Afterwards further serial hits followed, like The Fast Gerti, where she plays a taxi driver.
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Nach kleineren Rollen in österreichischen und deutschen Filmen wie "Der brave Soldat Schwejk" (1960) gelang Berger mit ihrer Rolle in der Simmel-Verfilmung "Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein" der große Durchbruch. 1963 wurde sie für einen Fünf-Jahres-Vertrag nach Hollywood geholt. Bis 1969 spielte sie fast ausschließlich in den USA und trat nebenbei auch in amerikanischen Fernsehserien auf. Es folgten Engagements auch in französischen und italienischen Komödien, in Agententhrillern und Gesellschaftssatiren wie Lina Wertmüllers "Als die Frauen noch Schwänze hatten" (1970).
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On abandoning ballet Senta took up acting classes and in 1956, while still at school, she was advised to apply for a tiny part of a teenage girl in a film that was being planned, "Die Unentschuldigte Stunde". Senta won the role with its one line of dialogue, and decided that acting was to be her future profession.
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