Christl Mardayn

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Christl Mardayn , actually Anna Christina Mardayn , sometimes also Christiane Mardayne (born December 8, 1896 in Vienna ; † July 24, 1971 there ) was an Austrian actress and opera and operetta singer ( soprano ).

Life

Anna Christina Maria Mardein was the daughter of the Sparkasse official Oskar Maria Mardein and his wife Henriette geb. Fusek. After graduating from high school , she studied piano, dance and singing at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna .

In 1920 she made her stage debut instead of a sick soubrette in Die toten Augen von Eugen d'Albert . As Christl Mardayn , she then received a permanent contract with the Vienna Volksoper . She sang the Cherubin in Le nozze di Figaro , Lola in Cavalleria rusticana , Sieglinde in Die Walküre and she shone about a hundred times in the title role of Franz von Suppès' operetta The beautiful Galathée .

In 1921 the soubrette worked at the Raimundtheater and in 1922 went to the Carltheater . Here she sang at world premieres of operettas such as Die Bajadere by Emmerich Kálmán , Der Libelleanz by Franz Lehár and Die Frau im Ermelin by Jean Gilbert . She toured at the Art Theater in Berlin , the Corso Theater in Zurich and the State Theater in Hanover . Here she embodied the title roles in Madame sans Gêne by Victorien Sardou or Mirandolina after Bohuslav Martinů . Further guest appearances have taken her to Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Sweden.

In the 1930s Christl Madayn gradually turned into a stage actress, increasingly into speaking roles. In 1932 she got an engagement at the Theater in der Josefstadt and from 1934 appeared at the Deutsches Volkstheater . She mainly played comedies based on George Bernard Shaw and Moliere and tabloids .

With the advent of talkies , Christl Mardayn, who had been married to actor Hans Thimig since 1929 , also got film roles. She often provided vocal interludes. She is the landlady in the operetta adaptation Im Weißen Rößl (1936), and in the French production Le drame de Shanghaï with director Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1938) the eloquent actress got a leading role as revue singer Kay Murphy. However, the "Anschluss" of Austria in the same year put an end to her hopes for an international film career.

From 1939 to 1943 she was a member of the ensemble at the Theater in der Josefstadt and the German Theater in Berlin. Even after the war, Christl Mardayn, meanwhile married to the businessman Paul Mühlbacher, played mainly on stages in Vienna. The German-Austrian cinema of the 1950s only used them relatively rarely.

On May 18, 1957, she was awarded the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria , and on March 21, 1962, the title of Professor . She taught at the Vienna Conservatory and until her retirement at the Vienna Music Academy. Christl Mardayn died on July 24, 1971 of heart failure.

tomb

She received an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 28).

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ High distinction for Christl Mardayn
personal data
SURNAME Mardayn, Christl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mardayn, Anna Christina (real name); Mardayne, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress and opera and operetta singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1971
Place of death Vienna