Overview
- Her agent Klaus Kelterborn and multiple news agencies confirmed she died on 5 September 2026, with reports saying the loss occurred in Vienna and no cause of death has been published.
- Mangold made her professional debut at the Theater in der Josefstadt in 1946 and took her stage farewell there in 2017, bookending a continuous presence on major German‑language stages.
- She appeared in more than 100 film and TV productions, with credits ranging from the 1948 Der Engel mit der Posaune and Hanussen (1955) to a cameo in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995).
- From the 1970s onward she taught at leading institutions including the Max Reinhardt Seminar, the Salzburger Mozarteum and the Wiener Schauspielschule Krauss and served as a university professor between 1983 and 1995.
- Mangold publicly recounted episodes of sexism and sexual assault in her memoir Lassen Sie mich in Ruhe and leaves a legacy that critics, students and colleagues are already marking with tributes and planned retrospectives.