Carmen Cartellieri
Carmen Cartellieri, native Franziska Ottilia Cartellieri; married Carmen digit from Tesch Bruck ( born June 28, 1891 in Prostějov, † October 17, 1953 in Vienna) was an Austrian actress and film producer.
Life
The inter alia raised in Innsbruck engineer daughter Franziska Ottilia Cartellieri, since early 1910 the mother of a daughter had until 1918 as hostess at the side of her husband, the chemist, painter, railway officials, engineer, inventor, and brief film director Emanuel digit Edler von Tesch Bruck in the Hungarian province lived. Given the fact that Italian silent film actresses such as Francesca Bertini and Lyda Borelli were at that time celebrated as the epitome of screen divas, she claimed for many years to make their own biography interesting to have been born in Milan.
In the last year of the war in 1918 came Cartellieri, without possessing any artistic experience, in Budapest to film. The Tyrolean director Cornelius Hintner, whom she had met by chance, was the beginning of her sponsors. First, she played in the Hungarian productions, but changed the end of 1919 due to the political upheavals in the post-revolutionary Hungary with her husband and Hintner to Vienna. There Hintner enabled her in the same year, under the pseudonym Carmen Teschen, in his film Anjula, the gypsy girl her Austrian debut.
In the next eight years Cartellieri participated in a plethora of silent film productions, mainly dramas and melodramas, comedies rare. In February 1920, she founded her own production company, the Cartellierifilm Ges.mbH. Initially, at the beginning of the 1920s, was Carmen Cartellieri still lead roles in often self-produced (1921 /22) productions of her husband. Soon, however, she had to make do with larger supporting roles. Your praised by contemporaries attractiveness brought her at the same time (1921-1923) a number of awards and honors (eg "most beautiful Viennese actress " and the Vienna Fashion Award ).
In later years she was allowed alongside cheerful and carefree figures also repeatedly embody dramatic and ambiguous characters. From their overall artistic rather modest oeuvre only by the Robert Wiene directed, expressionist classic of fantastic cinema Orlac 's hands stands out in which she portrayed Regine. The following year (1925 ) Wiene picked her for his opera Der Rosenkavalier filming there and gave her the supporting role of Annina. In the 1920s, Carmen Cartellieri also appeared repeatedly on the stage, including at the Ronacher. In 1926 she was seen in the pantomime The death ring.
Just before the dawn of the talkie era - her last film role was the important part on historical figure of geziehenen as scheming Countess Marie Louise of Larisch Wallersee in the Mayerling drama The fate of the von Habsburg - was Carmen Cartellieris career ended abruptly, and she retired completely into the private life back.