Fritzi Massary
Fritzi Massary, actually Friederika Massaryk, also Friederike Massary ( born March 21, 1882 in Vienna, Austria - Hungary, † January 30, 1969 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, United States) was an Austrian singer and actress.
Life
She grew up in Vienna as the oldest of three daughters of a Jewish merchant family and was soon singing lessons. Only 17 years old, she performed at the State Theatre in Linz. The second stage station was the Carl Schultze Theatre in Hamburg. Here she made her debut on 5 September 1900 as Molly in Memoirs of a Geisha by Jones and then took another operetta roles in Soubrettenfach. After just one season in Hamburg, she went back to Vienna. From 1901 to 1904 she was in Danzer's Orpheum, a Revue, successfully. On September 10, 1903 her only child, Maria Elisabeth Karl Liesl († 1979) was born. Father was Karl- Kuno Rollo Count Coudenhove ( 1887-1940 ). The daughter later married the writer Bruno Frank. In her first marriage, which lasted only briefly, she was married to the Berlin ophthalmologist Bernhard Pollack.
Director Richard Schulz of the Metropol-Theater which she heard in Vienna, caused that they came in August 1904 to Berlin, where she took further lessons. Long time they appeared there with her partner and compatriot Joseph Giampietro together. Here she managed the artistic breakthrough as a soprano. She soon became the figurehead of this theater. She starred in numerous operettas by Paul Lincke and Victor Hollaender. From 1912 she got that had become a celebrity - they spoke only of the Massary, and the female population was based on her fashionable taste - almost exclusively to play leading roles. The most famous operetta singer of her time beguiled audiences as The Merry Widow, Czardasfürstin or Madame Pompadour, and could often carry in their best roles a quarter of the evening intakes home.
As she (1918? ) Married her great love, the castmates Max Pallenberg on February 20, 1916 Massary converted to Protestantism.
She separated from the Metropol Theatre, changed hands several times, the stages and thereby acted horrendously high fees from. She sang the main roles of the great operettas by Johann Strauss, Jacques Offenbach, Franz Lehár and Leo Fall in all the major theaters Revue of their time and entered 1926 on even at the Salzburg Festival. Oscar Straus devoted her more on them tailored operettas, which were received as Massary operettas in the story, from The Last Waltz about The Pearls of Cleopatra to a woman who knows what she wants. The performances of the latter operetta were disrupted in Berlin in 1932 by massive SA- chants.
They also sang and recorded music was with songs like Why should a woman have no relationship, Joseph, oh Joseph, what are you so chaste and Oh- la -la to a wider audience.
The flight from the Nazis in 1932 meant the end of her career. Although they still played in Vienna and also dabbled in London - unsuccessfully, because there they did not sing in their native language. Max Pallenberg came close to the Czech Karlovy Vary 1934 in a plane crash. About Switzerland and France, she emigrated in 1939 to her daughter in the United States. She settled in Beverly Hills Hollywood, where Franz Werfel, Thomas Mann, Ernst Lubitsch and Lion Feuchtwanger were their neighbors.
Finally, she lived without comeback, until her death in Beverly Hills. Your urn is on the Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery in Glendale.
In 1977, the Fritzi - Massary Street was named after the artist in Berlin- Neukölln high -deck settlement.