Lia Woehr

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Lia-Wöhr relief on Lia-Wöhr-Platz in Frankfurt

Elisabeth "Lia" Wöhr (born July 26, 1911 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 15, 1994 in Oberursel , Hesse ) was a German actress , director , dancer , singer and television producer .

Life

Lia Wöhr grew up as the daughter of a baker in Gallus, Frankfurt . When she saw the opera Salomé , she decided to become a dancer. She practiced this profession for several years. She then attended drama school and received her first engagements in Berlin as a chanson singer in the late 1920s . Finally, after completing her acting training, she was hired by the Halberstadt City Theater . However, there she quit in 1933 because a Jewish colleague had been fired. She went back to Frankfurt and played classic roles at the Frankfurter Schauspiel . She took on her first directorial work in 1937 for an opera.

After the Second World War she was named Mama Hesselbach in the radio play series Familie Hesselbach, authorized signatory a. D. Hesselbach, Büro für Lebensberatung and Hesselbach GmbH known by and with Wolf Schmidt . When the radio play series in 1960 became a television series under the title The Hesselbach Company , Lia Wöhr was also here in the role of cleaning lady Frau Siebenhals . The series, which became a street sweeper in the Federal Republic of Germany , contributed much to its popularity.

In between she was also in Italy , Spain and Great Britain and staged Verdi, Wagner and Mozart in Rome , Madrid and London. She traded there under the names Elisabetta Wöhr and Elisabeth Wöhr .

Lia Wöhr was the first woman to work as a producer for German television . She produced alongside the Äppelwoisendung to the Blue Boar where they also Landlady played as a friendly hostess, and Bach's St. John Passion and the Firebird by Stravinsky . In addition, she was responsible for the German preliminary decisions for the Eurovision Song Contest as a producer for many years .

In 1976 she retired and only appeared occasionally as an actress in the Frankfurt Volkstheater . She lived until the end in Oberursel- Weißkirchen on the northern outskirts of Frankfurt, where she also died on November 15, 1994.

Awards and honors

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Lia Wöhr received numerous awards, including the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1982), the Friedrich Stoltze Prize (1984, named after the dialect poet Friedrich Stoltze ) and the Hessian Order of Merit (1992). In 1988 she became an honorary citizen of the city of Oberursel (Taunus) .

Following a suggestion by the Greens in the local advisory board, the city of Frankfurt named the square at the intersection of Frankenallee and Kölner Strasse in their hometown Gallus after her and erected a memorial stone donated by the Hessischer Rundfunk near the house where she was born. Likewise, although still in her lifetime, a public path to her house in Weißkirchen was named after her (Lia-Wöhr-Weg). Lia Wöhr was also an honorary member of the Oberursel-Weißkirchen volunteer fire department .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Sabine Hock: Wöhr, Elisabethe (Lia) Anna, pseudonym "Elisabetta Woehr" . In: Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Women in Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 2: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the 19th century to 1945. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51145-6 , p. 447-451.
  • Wendelin Leweke (arrangement), Lia Wöhr: My world is a big theater. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7973-0578-8 .

Web links

Commons : Lia Wöhr  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ April 13, 1957: “Fidelio”. In: L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia ..
  2. ↑ Fidelio p. 24 (Italian; PDF; 8.6 MB)
  3. ↑ a b Lia Wöhr - the landlady: From the opera director to the TV cleaning lady. ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hessischer Rundfunk, December 8, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hr-online.de
  4. ↑ Sabine Hock : Where I stand, there is Hessen! For the 100th birthday of Frankfurt veteran Lia Wöhr. on: world online
personal data
SURNAME Woehr, Lia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woehr, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, director, dancer, singer and television producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1994
Place of death Oberursel , Hessen , Federal Republic of Germany