Elisabeth Bergner
Elisabeth Bergner, born Elisabeth Ettel ( born August 22, 1897 in Drohobicz in Galicia, Austria - Hungary, today Ukraine, † 12 May 1986 as London) was a world-famous Austrian- British theater and film actress and director.
Life
In the family she learned as a tutor to medical students (and later famous group therapists ) Jacob Moreno know, which they later attributed the impetus to go on the stage. She received her training at private acting schools as well as at the Vienna Conservatory. She made her debut in 1915 at the theater in Innsbruck, later followed by appearances in Zurich, Vienna, Munich and Berlin. In Vienna, she worked as a model for the sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck, the unhappy fell in love with it. Her first film role, she received 1922 ( The Evangelimann ). The big breakthrough came with Victor Barnowsky with the Shakespeare play As You Like It at the Lessing Theatre.
Elizabeth " Lisl " Bergner broke rows of men's hearts. The Duisburg sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck this included. He also took care of her because of his unrequited love on March 25, 1919, the life. With the Austrian writer Albert Ehrenstein she had a stormy love affair. She left him, returned to him, as you wish. Seeing her after an altercation said: " I hope that God will forgive you your cruelty " she shrugged and replied, "Why should not he? This is finally his profession. "
From 1924 she worked exclusively with director Paul Czinner, the privately her partner was. As a Jew, she had to go to the "seizure of power " of the Nazis first fled to Vienna and then to London, where she also married. Both the transition from the silent era to talkies and the linguistic adaptation to their new workplace, she managed effortlessly. Already in 1934, she played Catherine the Great under the direction of her husband. The film, however, was banned in Germany. In 1935 she received for her role in leave me never again her only Oscar nomination.
1940 emigrated Bergner and Czinner to Hollywood, but Bergner's only Hollywood movie Paris Calling (1941 ) was not a great success. They shifted the focus of its work to the stage again. After the war, she worked in New York, among others, in the German-speaking theater player from Abroad, until they returned to England in 1950 and 1954 to Germany, where she successfully worked as a theater and film actress.
1962 she was awarded the Schiller Prize of the city of Mannheim and 1982 in Venice Eleonora Duse - Cup. Her directorial debut was in 1970, three years later, she retired into private life.
Your tomb is located in London, Golders Green Crematorium and Mausoleum.
In 2000 in Vienna Liesing ( 23rd district ) of Elisabeth Bergner pathway was named after her.
Filmography
Awards
Autobiography
- Elisabeth Bergner: " Admired lots and lots of scolded ... " Elisabeth Bergner messy memories. Bertelsmann, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-570-01529-7.