- Mother of actor Wolf Albach-Retty.
- Grandmother of actress Romy Schneider.
- Greatgrandmother of David Haubenstock and actress Sarah Biasini.
- Was awarded the city of Vienna's Josef-Kaintz-Medal for actors (1958).
- Being member of an actor's dynasty and daughter of actor/director Rudolf Retty, she made her stage debut in 1890.
- Ensemble member at the famous Vienna Burgtheater from 1903 to 1958. In 1905, she was the last actress being awarded the title "Hofschauspielerin".
- Rosa Albach-Retty's membership in the NSDAP is not proven, but she and her husband were supporting members of the SS.
- She had great successes on stages as a character actress and in the 30's followed the first movies.
- A Viennese municipal building was named after her: the Rosa-Albach-Retty-Hof in the 19th district, built in the 1970s.
- Trained by her father, she began her stage career in 1890 at the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater in Berlin, where she successfully performed in the title role of Minna von Barnhelm.
- She became an honorary member of the Burgtheater in 1928 and in 1958 she gave her final performance.
- The proximity of Rosa Albach-Retty to the NS Regime is well documented. The annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938 was celebrated by her in the Kleine Volks-Zeitung.
- The actress Rosa Albach-Retty made her theater debut in 1891 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. It followed engagements at the Lessingtheater, from 1894 at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna and from 1903 she belonged to the permanent company at the Burgtheater where she became a honorary member in 1958.
- Her grave of honour and that of her son is located in the Vienna Central Cemetery.
- As a celebrity of the public and a self-confessed admirer of Hitler, Rosa Albach-Retty was courted by the Nazi cultural policy and included in the so-called "God-privileged List" of the National Socialists. None of this did anything to diminish the esteem in which Albach-Retty was held after the end of the Nazi regime, as the awards she received after 1945 prove.
- She died in 1980 at the age of 105, not long after she had published her autobiography So kurz sind 100 Jahre for her hundredth birthday.
- In1963 she received the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class.
- She was engaged by Paul Schlenther at the Burgtheater in Vienna. On May 13, 1912 she became the (last) court actress. She started out in vaudeville plays, being naïve, and transitioned into character acting with great success.
- She married an imperial officer, Karl Alnach, whose name she attached to hers, henceforth calling herself Rosa Albach-Retty.
- In 1977 she got the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich).
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