Leopoldine Konstantin
Leopoldine Konstantin Eugenie Amelie ( born March 12, 1886 in Brno, † December 14, 1965 in Vienna) was an Austrian actress.
Life
She took Alexander Strakosch (1846-1909), whom she married shortly thereafter, private acting lessons and debuted in 1907 with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. She embodied in Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening Thea (1907 ), the pages in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1907 ), Perdita in The Winter's Tale (1908 ) and Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1910).
From 1911 it was also shown at the Berlin Chamber games and was a well known personality of the Berlin salons. During the 1st World War, she moved in 1916 to Vienna, where they - sometimes compared to Helene Odilon - at the Municipal Theatre of Vienna, the Theater in der Josefstadt and the German National Theatre occurred. She presented here represent typical Grande Dames, she was particularly successful in 1924 at the National Theatre in the title role of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart.
Since 1912, she starred in silent films, first in lead roles. When they had to make increasingly after the 1st World War with supporting roles, she turned some time on this medium. In 1923 she built for herself and her son Alexander in Westerland a house, 1924, she married the Hungarian Ministerial and author Géza Herczeg.
From 1933 she took her film work again in 1935, she returned to Austria. Meanwhile divorced, she emigrated in 1938 via England to the United States. Since she did not speak English, they first had to struggle through as a factory worker until she landed a starring role Notorious after intensive language study in 1946 in Alfred Hitchcock.
Then she still starred in two television series and returned in 1948 to Vienna. She played sporadically Theater in Austria and Germany and worked with poetry readings for broadcasting.
Leopoldine Konstantin last lived together with her adopted daughter Elizabeth Herczeg in the Vienna Trauttmansdorffgasse; She died on 15 December 1965, cardiac arrest and in the Vienna Central Cemetery ( Protestant Cemetery Simmering ) was laid to rest.