Lilli Palmer

Lilli Palmer, born Lilli Marie Peiser, ( born May 24, 1914 in Posen, Prussia, † January 27, 1986 in Los Angeles ) was a German actress, author and painter.

Life

Family and Youth

Lilli Palmer Lilli Marie Peiser, was born in Posen, now Poznań. Her parents were Alfred Peiser and Rose Lissmann. The father was the head doctor at the Jewish Hospital in Berlin ( surgeon and medical officer ), his mother was a theater actress and was already after the engagement their profession. Lilli had an older sister - the actress and singer Irene Prador - and a younger - Hilde Ross, 1919-2008, was the dancer. When Lilli Palmer was four years old, the family moved to Berlin -Westend. Attached to the house, where she lived at the time, today there is a memorial plaque.

Against the wishes of her father strove Palmer even as a student to become an actress. She went to high school in the morning ( Forest High School in Waldschulallee ) and in the afternoon to acting school - it was both. Acting classes she had with Ilka Gruening and Lucie Polite in Berlin. Her first appearances were made at Rose Theatre at the Great Frankfurter Straße (today Karl -Marx -Allee, near Koppenstraße ).

Career

In 1932, she started at the Hessian State Theatre Darmstadt. In 1933 she emigrated to Paris, because she could no longer work in Germany as a Jew, and came with her sister Irene under the pseudonym Les Sœurs Viennoises in various nightspots on.

A little later her path led her to London, where she played the female lead in the film Crime Unlimited and so got its first contract with a British production company. In 1936 she played a supporting role in the film Secret Agent by Alfred Hitchcock.

In 1943 she married the British stage actor and film star Rex Harrison. In 1944 their son Rex Carey Harrison Alfred to the world, who now teaches at the Brooklyn University. With a Hollywood contract in her pocket, she emigrated to the United States, where he played alongside, among others, Gary Cooper 's Secret and John Garfield in hunt for millions.

The scandal surrounding Harrison's affair with the young actress Carole Landis, who committed suicide, first finished the Hollywood career of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison / Palmer. Then both were successful on Broadway, including jointly in Bell, Book and Candle ( German: mistress witch).

In 1954 Lilli Palmer returned to Germany and became a star of postwar cinema. She played among other things on the side of Curd Jürgens and Romy Schneider. But not only in Germany, she was able to celebrate successes - even in France, Great Britain and the United States, they filmed together with well-known actors such as Clark Gable, James Mason, Jean Gabin and Charles Boyer. For her work as an actress, she has won numerous awards, including the Film Award.

1956, Palmer and Harrison divorced. On September 21, 1957 Lilli Palmer married the Argentine writer and actor Carlos Thompson.

In Germany she later worked in television films and television series with such as The Commissioner ( gray Roter Morgen ), 10 episodes in a woman remains a woman, 1973, Derrick, second series Johanna 1974. Under the name of her late grandfather, she wrote some of the stories to this series itself

1974 published her memoirs thickness Lilli - good child who became an international bestseller. More books by her are The Red Raven from 1979 ( extension of the first biography about a story that had a special place in her life: Palmer writes here about a love triangle between her, her partner and her best friend ) and Embracing has its time (1981 ), Night Music ( 1984), a woman remains a woman (1985) and When the night bird cries ( posthumously published in 1988 ).

In addition to her literary career Lilli Palmer was also a successful painter.

Lilli Palmer died at the age of 71 in Los Angeles from cancer and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Sports activities

In her youth, Lilli Palmer was considered as a promising table tennis talent. She was nominated for the World Cup 1930 in Berlin, where she - lost in singles against the later world champion Mária Mednyánszky - still under the name Lilli Marie Peiser. Then she was led by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB at position 9 of the German ranking. Often Peiser played with Heinz Nickelsburg Mixed.

Filmography

Radio plays

1979 Lilli Palmer worked as a teller at the radio drama production of the Walt Disney film classic Sleeping Beauty and Snow White and the seven dwarfs.

Awards

Honorable remembrance

Since 1988, young young actresses such as Barbara Auer (1988 ), Christiane Paul ( 1998), Anneke Kim Sarnau (2003) or jasmine Schwiers (2005) as part of the ceremony of the Golden Camera TV magazine Hörzu with Lilli Palmer Memorial camera were outstanding acting performances excellent. 2003, Curd Jürgens Memorial Camera was also awarded for the best male young actor. 2004, the two awards were merged to Lilli Palmer & Curd Jürgens Memorial Camera. This price is currently worth 20,000 euros.

Berlin attached to the house where she spent her youth, a plaque on. 1997 in Berlin- Haselhorst the " Lilli Palmer Promenade" named on Krienicke Park. In 2000, the German post a Lilli Palmer stamp issued.

Writings

• Thickness Lilli - good child. Munich 1974.
• The Red Raven. Munich 1977.
• By a nose. Stuttgart 1985.
• Embracing has its time.
• Night Music.
• When the night bird cries.
• A woman is a woman.