Alice Dorell
Alice Dorell , born Alice Droller , (born July 27, 1907 in Mannheim , Germany ; died September 30, 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German actress and cabaret artist .
Life
Alice Droller had tried her hand at various professions at a young age, for example as a nanny, as a waitress in a Viennese pastry shop and as a prompter in Paris. She started her artistic career at the beginning of the 1930s. Under the pseudonym Alice Dorell, she earned a reputation for herself as a cabaret artist with chansons and her own texts, and under her real name the native of Mannheim also appeared at regular theaters such as the Bremen Schauspielhaus (in the 1930/31 season).
The seizure of power caused the Jewish artist to flee the National Socialist German Reich with her parents and her brother Oskar . The Droller family settled in the Netherlands , where their parents ran a pension in The Hague . Alice Dorell founded her own formation under the name "Dorell's Drie Dames-Cabaret". Shortly after the outbreak of World War II , she performed as an entertainer at the Cabaret Penguin.
The invasion of the Wehrmacht in the western neighboring country in 1940 ended their activities there. Alice Droller / Dorell was in the Westerbork transit camp spent near the German border, and (probably on July 15) in 1942 from there in the summer directly into the extermination camp Auschwitz deported where they in the autumn of the same year - the same day we her nine years younger brother - was killed. In 1944, Alice's parents Julius and Emma were also deported to Auschwitz, where they were sent to the gas on July 7 of the same year .
literature
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 95.
- Volker Kühn (Ed.): Germany's Awakening: Cabaret under the swastika; 1933-1945 . Volume 3. Weinheim: Quadriga, 1989 ISBN 3-88679-163-7 , p. 370.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dorell, Alice |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Droller, Alice (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and cabaret artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 1942 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz concentration camp |