Christl Mardayn

Christl Mardayn, actually Anna Christina Mardayn, sometimes Christiane Mardayne ( born December 8, 1896 in Vienna, † July 24, 1971 ibid ) was an Austrian actress and singer.

Life

Anna Christina Maria Mardein was the daughter of the savings bank officials Oskar Maria and his wife Henriette nee Mardein Fusek. After high school, she studied at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna piano, dancing and singing.

In 1920, she made ​​her stage debut in place of a diseased soubrette in The Dark Eyes of Eugen d' Albert. As Christl Mardayn she was then given a permanent contract at the Vienna Volksoper. They sang Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Lola in Cavalleria rusticana, Sieglinde in Die Walküre and about a hundred times she excelled in the title role of Francis of Suppes operetta The beautiful Galathée.

1921 had the soubrette at the Raimund Theater in 1922 and went to the Carl Theater. She sang here first performances of operettas such as La Bayadere by Emmerich Kálmán, The Libellentanz by Franz Lehár and The Lady in Ermine by Jean Gilbert. Tours have taken her to the Art Theater Berlin, the Corso Theatre in Zurich and the Staatstheater Hannover. She embodied here the Madame sans Gêne by Victorien Sardou or Mirandolina by Bohuslav Martinu. More she has appeared in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Sweden.

In the 1930s, Christl Madayn gradually transformed to a theater actress, increasingly in speaking roles. In 1932 she received an engagement at the Theater in der Josefstadt and went from 1934 on at the German National Theatre. She played mainly comedies by George Bernard Shaw and Moliere and light comedies.

With the advent of the talkies Christl Mardayn received, who was married to actor Hans Thimig since 1929, also film roles. Often they gave this song interludes. In the operetta adaptation in White Horse Inn (1936 ) is the landlady, and in the French production Le drame de Shanghai with director Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1938 ) got the articulate actress starred as a revue singer Kay Murphy. However, the "Anschluss" of Austria in the same year, ended her hopes for an international film career.

From 1939 to 1943 she was a member at the Theater in der Josefstadt and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. Even after the war played Christl Mardayn, now married with businessman Paul Muhlbacher, mainly in Vienna's stages. The German - Austrian cinema of the 1950s, they began only relatively rarely.

On May 18, 1957 her the title of Professor was the Golden Badge of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, on March 21, 1962 awarded. She taught at the Vienna Conservatory and until her retirement at the Vienna Music Academy. Christl Mardayn died on 24 July 1971 of heart failure.

She received an honorary dedicated grave in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 40, Number 28).

Filmography