Käthe Dorsch
Catherine cod ( born December 29, 1890 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, German Empire, † December 25, 1957 in Vienna, Austria ) was a German - Austrian actress.
Life
On December 29, 1890 at 17:30 clock was Catherine, the daughter of cod gingerbread assistants Christoph Dorsch and his wife Magdalena cod, born Lindl, in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, born in the Lower Market Street 26. 1893 the family moved cod from Neumarkt to Nuremberg. 1901 his father died. She attended business school, took piano lessons and sang fifteen years old at the Extra Chorus of the Municipal Theatre Nuremberg at a performance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
In Nuremberg, then in Hanau and Mannheim, they had more appearances especially in operettas. Her first major role as Annie in Max Half drama youth, she was the Einspringerin for a sick colleague. Despite its actually negative attitude towards the operetta and for purely economic reasons, Käthe Dorsch decided in 1908 to become involved as Opereta in Mainz and went in 1911 to Berlin at the New Operetta Theatre. Other engagements have received the Residenz Theater in the flower street, at the Lessing Theatre, at the Deutsches Theater and the Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt. In 1927 she went as an actress to Vienna, where he worked among other things on the folk theater. In 1936 she took Gustav Gründgens the Staatstheater in Berlin, from 1939 until her death she was a member of the Burgtheater. From 1946 she also played again at the Berlin stage.
In 1913 she had her first small supporting role in the silent film, when the tax jumps. By 1921, she appeared in several films. Then followed a long hiatus until 1931, when the talkies her better expression offered. She played some significant female figures such as Maria Theresa in Trenck, the Pandur and Caroline Neuber in comedians.
In 1920, she married her colleagues movie Harry Liedtke and was married to him for six or eight years; the sources disagree about the duration. Binding to Liedtke went beyond the divorce; his assassination in 1945 by marauding Soviets they never overcame. Your temporary close relationship with her childhood friend Hermann Goering availed for interventions in favor of " racial " threatened or politically persecuted colleagues such as the comedian Werner Finck, who was released in 1935 from the Esterwegen.
As early as 1946 cod had slapped the Berlin critic and philosopher Wolfgang Harich. In 1956, she sparked a major media attention when she slapped also the Austrian theater critic Hans Weigel before its Viennese favorite café. In the Weigel then strained theater process - Weigel was represented by the Minister of Justice later Christian Broda - it was ( euro 36,33 ) sentenced to 500 shillings penalty. In 1957 she was already seriously ill when she Elisabeth played at Vienna's Burgtheater on the side of Paula Wessely as Maria in Maria Stuart, a production with which they took another early October of the year at the Berlin Festival Weeks " triumphant " farewell to the stage Horst O. Hermanni: from Dorothy Dandridge to Willy Fritsch. The film ABC. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, pp. 149 ff text online. < / Ref > On Christmas Day of the year Käthe Dorsch died at the age of nearly 67 years in a Viennese hospital from a liver disease. Their legacy they intended for the establishment of a (still existing today ) " Foundation for the support of needy professional artistic " ( Kathe Dorsch Foundation in Berlin -Charlottenburg ).
Kathe Dorsch, of " the entire theater of the world" was one and their next role, the title role in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession should have been, was by transfer of the body on December 30, 1957 in the cemetery of Pieskow on Scharmutzelsee in her mother's grave buried. A memorial stone is to be found in the cemetery Dahlem. 1962 in Vienna Penzing (14th district ), the Käthe Dorsch alley named after her. 1966 Road No. 500 was renamed " Kathe Dorsch - ring " in Berlin -Neukölln.
The acquired from her estate in 1938 Attersee am Attersee, which was later called cod villa now houses an art operation.