- Had a son with her now ex-2nd husband who was killed during World War II.
- Dumpy Austrian character comedienne, often in rustic or proletarian roles as gossips, sharp-tongued cleaning women or henpecking wives or tyrannical mothers-in-law. On stage from 1910 at the Vienna Lustspieltheater, subsequently promoted by Max Reinhardt as a burgeoning comic talent. Long residencies at the Burgtheater (1917-23) and the Theater in der Josefstadt (1925-38). On screen, she was at her best when paired paired in lightweight comedies alongside the ever-popular Hans Moser.
- After the World War II, Rosar concentrated on film, radio and television work, starring in more than 100 movies during her acting career.
- She was normally pinned down to support roles and played very rarely leading roles. But she filled these rare opportunities with her whole soul like in the movie "Der veruntreute Himmel" (1958) - which can be seen as the height of her long career.
- She made her film debut in 1919 with the movie "Der Mord an der Bajadere", a second silent movie followed nine years.
- She occasionally also appeared in serious films, including her cameo performance as the porter's wife in The Third Man and the filming of the novel The Embezzled Heaven by Franz Werfel in 1958. For this movie she was awarded as Best Actor at Cork Film Festival (1958).
- In 1907 Rosar married a Swiss businessman and moved with him to Milan, Italy. After her divorce she remarried in 1930 but was divorced again.
- In 1910 followed greater stage engagement in Vienna and Munich. Other stages followed at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, at the Viennese Burgtheater and at the Theater in der Josefstadt. There was spotted her comical talent which was also used in her later film career.
- Rosar initially appeared in classical roles, however, in her advanced years she embodied resolute Viennese women in numerous comedies.
- Her only son, by her first marriage, was killed in 1943 at the Eastern Front in the Second World War.
- Annie Rosar was born in Vienna into a farming family based in Orth an der Donau, near Vienna. Her father Michael Rosar (1850-1927) worked as a conductor on the Vienna tram network.
- Having finished grammar school (Gymnasium), Rosar attended the University of Music and Performing Arts and made her stage debut in the Vienna Prater under director Josef Jarno in 1910. One year later she joined the Munich Munich Schauspielhaus ensemble under Otto Falckenberg and subsequently went to Berlin and Hamburg. On her return to Vienna, she had engagements at the Burgtheater (1917-23), the Theater in der Josefstadt (1925-38), where she worked with Max Reinhardt, and the Volkstheater (1939-42, 1947-51).
- The talkies offered her those roles which made her famous. Already in 1933 she played for the first time with Hans Moser in the short movie "Kurzschluss". Both entertained the audience till to the 50's with their common entrances.
- Annie Rosar not only impersonated roles with comic but was also very convincing as a tyrant and resolute woman.
- Annie Rosar took acting lessons at the Academy of Dramatische Kunst in Mailand in 1907 and had first small appearances at lecture evenings.
- The actress Annie Rosar belongs to the most outstanding actresses of the German film who was especially with actor Hans Moser a comical and unequal couple.
- She continued her career undiminished in the 50's and became an institution of the German and Austrian film.
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