Anny Ahlers

Anny Ahlers ( born December 21, 1907 in Hamburg, † March 14, 1933 in London) was a German singer and actress.

Life

Anny Ahlers was born in 1907 in Hamburg. The age of four she was a dancer up in a circus. After her vocal studies she got a role in the operetta Casanova, the Ralph Benatzky had arranged based on melodies by Johann Strauss. With this role, she was known in Berlin.

Her roles included the exotic Princess Laya in Paul Abraham's operetta revue " The Flower of Hawaii". At the Vienna premiere of the operetta " The Violet of Montmartre " with music by Emmerich Kálmán she sang the " Parisian Nanon ". 1932 Anny Ahlers joined forces with Richard Tauber at the Berlin Metropol Theatre in the world premiere of the operetta "The Song of Love" on. For Erich Wolfgang Korngold classical operetta " The Lace Handkerchief Queen " by Johann Strauss had dressed in a modern guise. Richard Tauber also took from it two arias, but in some recordings of duets of tenor Marcel Wittrisch was the musical partner of Anny Ahlers. The recording of the duet Beloved wife was, my was with the Orchestra of the Metropol Theater under Franz Schönenbaumgarten field in 1932.

She appeared in the sound films The Faschingsfee by Emmerich Kálmán and " The Marquise of Pompadour ." The critics wrote: " The slim - bred Anny Ahlers puts down a remarkable nervous hysterical movie star parody. More and more, this operetta singer turns out as a film artist of grace, as a diva, the glossy inserts in their Bonkers awareness in the turbulent action. " Another movie with Anny Ahlers was " The love company, " also the first directing work of Max Ophüls. She sang in the song Got My Mind happy times really in love. The composition was from Bruno Granichstaedten.

In the fall of 1932, Anny Ahlers guested then for several months in London as Dubarry in the same operetta that Theo Mack Eben had arranged for a presentation by Karl Millöcker. Although Anny Ahlers barely spoke English and the dialogues and song lyrics had learned phonetically memorize the performances were a great triumph.

Anny Ahlers suffered from tuberculosis, which worsened through the clammy London weather. Since she still wanted to go on stage, grabbed Anny Ahlers, to numb the pain, morphine, from which it eventually became dependent. On March 14, 1933, she threw herself from the window of their London hotel.

Your urn was placed at the instigation of her mother on the Ohlsdorfer Cemetery in Hamburg. In the church in Shipley is today one donated by friends plaque with the inscription " renowned for genius in dramatic art". 2005, a painting by Anny Ahlers was offered in English art trade for the equivalent of 150,000 euros and purchased by a private collector.

Weblink

  • Anny Ahlers at the Internet Movie Database (English)
  • Anny Ahlers at filmportal.de
  • Pictures of Anny Ahlers In: Virtual History
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Swell

  • Singer
  • Actor
  • German musician
  • Born 1907
  • Died in 1933
  • Woman
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