Dolores Schmidinger

Dolores Schmidinger, known as Dolly and registered as Maria-Dolores Andics-Schmidinger, was born on 21 September 1946 in Vienna. She is an Austrian actress and cabaret performer.

In 1988, she presented her first cabaret program, Immer bins i (“It Is Always Me”). Her 1990 cabaret program Mit den Waffe(l)n einer Frau (“A Woman’s Weapons”) marked her breakthrough. She received the Salzburger Stier (“Salzburg Bull”) cabaret award in 1994. In 2024, she received the Ehrenmedaille der Bundeshauptstadt Wien in Gold (“Gold Medal of Honour of the Federal Capital of Vienna”).