Lída Baarová

Lída Baarová ( born September 7, 1914 as Babková Ludmila in Prague; † 27 October 2000 in Salzburg) was a Czech actress and mistress of Joseph Goebbels.

Life

After her studies at the Acting Conservatory in Prague Lída Baarová turned the age of 17 her first movie. She took on some records. In 1934 she was hired by the UFA in 1935 turned Barcarolle. The male lead in this production played Gustav Fröhlich, was associated with the Baarová henceforth; they lived in a house together on the peninsula Schwanenwerder in Berlin. There were other films like One Too Many on board (1935 ), Traitor (1936 ), Patriots (1937) and The Bat (1937 ) as well as engagements at the Deutsches Theater and at the Volksbühne. Baarová was used by the German film industry in the role as an exotic vamp and embodied by 1938 almost exclusively such characters.

After she met Joseph Goebbels, a love affair that has also been public knowledge developed between the two. Goebbels was willing to divorce because Baarová. It was only at the instigation of Magda Goebbels ended a word of power Hitler the relationship. It appeared Hitler at the time of connection of the Sudetenland to the German Reich highly inappropriate that his propaganda minister maintained a love affair with a Czech. As a result of Hitler's intervention in this relationship Baarová awarded in 1938 by Wolf- Heinrich von Helldorf game ban and was not allowed to leave the German Empire. The result was that Baarová received no more engagements in Germany. Your 1938 filmed on Prussian Love Story ( Willy Fritsch ) received performance ban and was shown only in 1950 under the title Love Legend in West Germany. Lída Baarová However, until her death always talked about their relationship with Goebbels was purely platonic and called her reputed love affair than a lie. However, in an interview to be broadcast by ZDF History she speaks about her relationship with Goebbels and the associated consequences for them.

In 1939 Baarová went back to her hometown of Prague. She lived with her parents and her sister Zorka Janů in a villa that Baarová for themselves and their parents in uptown Hanspaulka had built. In Prague Baarová could play again and by the end of 1941, it has probably the most successful films turned her career. However Baarová brought the game ban from 1938 in Prague late 1941. In 1942 she went to Italy and there turned five films. 1943 had to return to Prague Baarová. In 1945, she was imprisoned in Czechoslovakia for collaboration suspicion and released after 18 months from lack of evidence. She emigrated in 1948 with her ​​husband about Austria to Argentina, but from where they again returned to Austria. In 1956 she divorced her husband in January Kopecky and played theaters in Austria and Germany. She also appeared in Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen on at the Castle Festival in Jagsthausen.

In 1969 she married in Salzburg Swedish Professor Kurt Lundwall, with whom she was married until his death in 1972. Lída Baarová spent the rest of her life in Salzburg.

Films (selection )

Autobiography

• Lída Baarová: Života sladké hořkosti. Sfinga, Ostrava, 1991, ISBN 80-90057-85-3 / Ametyst, Praha 2005, ISBN 978-80-85837-72-8 ( Czech).

• Lída Baarová: The sweet bitterness of my life. Memoirs of Ufa stars and Goebbels ' lover. Edited and revised by Richard Kettermann and Uwe Schmidt. From the Czech translated by Peter Mráz. Kettermann and Schmidt, Koblenz 2000, ISBN 978-3-934639-00-3.