Rosy Barsony

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Rosy Barsony (1934)

Rosy Barsony (born June 5, 1909 in Budapest ; born Róza Sonnenschein , married Rozsy Schustek ; † March 23, 1977 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian actress , singer and dancer .

Life

She was already noticed at children's performances in her hometown and developed into a celebrated soubrette in revue and operetta performances. In 1931 she came to Berlin and took on the title role in the operetta Viktoria und ihr Husar from Paul Abraham . She celebrated further successes in Abraham's operettas The Flower of Hawaii and Ball in the Savoy . She also had increasing success as a film actress.

Immediately after the seizure of power by the Nazis, she received a special permit from the because of their Jewish origin UFA . From 1935 this exception no longer existed and Barsony had to leave Germany. Together with her husband and stage partner, the operetta buffo Oscar Dénes , she toured Romania, Italy, England and the United States. In Vienna and Budapest she was often on stage or in front of the camera until the annexation of Austria in 1937.

Barsony, who was banned from performing, spent the war years in Budapest, while artists such as Marika Rökk and Clara Tabody continued the ideal image of the spirited, dance-loving Hungarian that she and Franziska Gaal had in German and Austrian films.

After the war she first appeared at the Savoy Theater in Bucharest , and from 1948 she lived with her husband in Vienna and Italy. In Italy she could be heard on the radio. Occasional appearances took her to Vienna in 1956, to the Klagenfurt City Theater in 1959 and to the Mörbisch Seefestspiele . She was also seen sporadically on television. She had one of her last successes in the televised operetta Mädi by Robert Stolz at the side of Johanna Matz .

Rosy Barsony was buried in the Döblinger Friedhof in Vienna (group 18, row 3, number 12). The city of Vienna has been taking care of the grave on an honorary basis since 2020.

Rosy Barsony's grave

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Rózsi Bársony  - collection of images

literature

  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 83 f., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Rosy Barsony
  2. ↑ Paul-Abraham-bio.de. The tragic king of the operetta . Archive 5 .
personal data
SURNAME Barsony, Rosy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barsony, Rose; Barsony, Rosy; Bársony, Rózsi; Bársony, Rózsi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian actress, singer and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1977
Place of death Vienna