Cissy Kraner

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Cissy Kraner and Hugo Wiener recording a cabaret show (1950)

Cissy Kraner , actually Gisela Kraner (born January 13, 1918 in Vienna ; † February 1, 2012 in Baden ) was an Austrian actress , singer ( Diseuse ) and cabaret artist .

life and work

Grave of Hugo Wiener and his wife Cissy Kraner in the Vienna Central Cemetery, group 33 G, number 3

After studying classical singing and doing some engagements as a soubrette , the Viennese soon turned to cabaret and performed on various cabaret stages. In 1938 she went to Bogotá with a revue stage , where she met Hugo Wiener . She began performing with him, and after their wedding in 1943 they opened a small, prosperous exile bar in Caracas , where Kraner performed her husband's chansons in five different languages. Although she was ordered to do the Reich Labor Service , she stayed with her husband because he was of Jewish origin.

After the war, the two returned to Vienna in 1948, where Kraner's career in the ensemble of the Simpl cabaret began immediately , which lasted until 1965. During this time, Hugo Wiener's chansons Der Novak will not go to ruin , I would like a front tooth for my birthday or I can't stand the Novotny , which became legendary through their performance. From 1950 to spring 1951 she played at the "Laughing Cabaret" in the Melodies Bar ( Annagasse 3, St. Annahof ) alongside Hugo Wiener and Maxi Böhm . In 1985 the Viennese director and choreographer Bernd Roger Bienert brought her to the Vienna State Opera to create the world premiere of a music theater work by the Austrian composer Gottfried von Eine under the onomatopoeic title "Rads Datz" with Cissy Kraner in the lead role . At the Vienna State Opera, the piece became a solitary pioneer of today's performative tendencies in theaters, as Bienert refused to follow dance and concentrated on the interpretation of Lotte Ingrisch's texts in the interpretation by Kraner. The premiere turned out to be a “succès de scandale” because, among other things, one had not expected Diseuse Cissy Kraner, who was almost seventy at the time, as a “dancing” soloist in a ballet on the stage of the Vienna State Opera. Kraner's appearance at the Vienna State Opera is proof of her courage to stand up for the unadjusted, new and unusual.

Hugo Wiener died in 1993, since then Cissy Kraner has been accompanied in her chansons by Herbert Prikopa .

Cissy Kraner died on February 1st, 2012 in the Künstlerheim Baden . On February 15, she was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery in the grave of honor of Hugo Wiener (group 33G, number 2). In 2013 the Cissy-Kraner-Platz in the 4th district of Wieden was named after her; this is located near Hugo-Wiener-Platz, named after her husband .

Discography

  • The world of Cissy Kraner On the wing: Hugo Wiener. Preiser records, 1988.
  • But the Novak ... Audio CD 1996
  • The Novak won't let me go to waste (original recording) (EPA 1026 / Austroton / EP 17 cm record): A: 1. How to make a cake. 2. The pin-up girl; B: 1. The Novak doesn't let me go to waste 2. A complicated relationship

literature

  • Cissy Kraner, Georg Markus (arr.): "But Hugo didn't let me go to waste". Songs and memories. Recorded by Georg Markus . Sign. by Rudolf Angerer. Amalthea, Vienna 1994.
  • Wiener Staatsoper, program for “Rads Datz”, 1984/85 season.
  • Christoph Dompke : Cissy Kraner. In: Life paths of female musicians in the “Third Reich” and in exile. Series Music in the “Third Reich” and in Exile, 8th ed. Working Group Exile Music at the Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg . Von Bockel, Neumünster 2000, ISBN 3932696379 , pp. 323–339.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cissy Kraner's life in pictures in the courier
  2. ↑ Cissy Kraner died at the age of 94 on ORF on February 3, 2012, accessed on February 3, 2012
  3. ^ Kraner funeral on February 15 on ORF February 9, 2012, accessed on February 9, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Kraner, Cissy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kraner, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress, singer and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 2012
Place of death Baden , Lower Austria