Evi Rauer (29 October 1915 â€" 17 September 2004) was an Estonian
stage, film and television actress and television director whose
career spanned more than sixty years.Evi Rauer was born in Tallinn to
Kustav Rauer, who was an Estonian champion wrestler, and Johanna
Katariina Rauer (née Wisel). She spent most summers with family in
Haimre, Märjamaa Parish, Rapla County. At age four, her mother was
diagnosed with a severe lung ailment and died a year later. Her father
would later remarry and emigrate to Sweden following the Soviet
occupation of Estonia in 1940. She attended schools in Tallinn,
graduating from the Elfriede Lender Girls' Private Gymnasium in 1935.
From 1936 until 1939, she studied acting at the Tallinn
Töölisteater.Shortly after graduation in 1939, she became engaged as
an actress at the Ugala theatre in Viljandi. She would leave the Ugala
in 1942, but return for engagements from 1945 until 1952 and again,
from 1969 until 1973. From 1942 until 1945, she was engaged at the
Endla Theatre in Pärnu, and from 1952 to 1958 at the Tallinn National
Drama Theatre (now, the Estonian Drama Theatre). During her years on
the stages of Estonian theatres, she would appear in notable
productions of works by: Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill, Hella Wuolijoki,
Aleksei Arbuzov, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, August Mälk, Alexander
Ostrovsky, August Kitzberg, Oskar Luts and Anton Chekhov, among
others.
stage, film and television actress and television director whose
career spanned more than sixty years.Evi Rauer was born in Tallinn to
Kustav Rauer, who was an Estonian champion wrestler, and Johanna
Katariina Rauer (née Wisel). She spent most summers with family in
Haimre, Märjamaa Parish, Rapla County. At age four, her mother was
diagnosed with a severe lung ailment and died a year later. Her father
would later remarry and emigrate to Sweden following the Soviet
occupation of Estonia in 1940. She attended schools in Tallinn,
graduating from the Elfriede Lender Girls' Private Gymnasium in 1935.
From 1936 until 1939, she studied acting at the Tallinn
Töölisteater.Shortly after graduation in 1939, she became engaged as
an actress at the Ugala theatre in Viljandi. She would leave the Ugala
in 1942, but return for engagements from 1945 until 1952 and again,
from 1969 until 1973. From 1942 until 1945, she was engaged at the
Endla Theatre in Pärnu, and from 1952 to 1958 at the Tallinn National
Drama Theatre (now, the Estonian Drama Theatre). During her years on
the stages of Estonian theatres, she would appear in notable
productions of works by: Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill, Hella Wuolijoki,
Aleksei Arbuzov, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, August Mälk, Alexander
Ostrovsky, August Kitzberg, Oskar Luts and Anton Chekhov, among
others.
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