Daisy d'Ora

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Daisy d'Ora (also: Daisy D'Ora) (born February 26, 1913 in Potsdam ; † June 12, 2010 in Munich ) was Miss Germany and a German actress . Her real name was Daisy, Baroness von Freyberg (other spellings: Daisy Freiin von Freyberg zu Eisenberg, Daisy Freiin von Freyberg-Eisenberg). Since it was considered vulgar in aristocratic circles to work in the entertainment industry, she adopted her stage name.

Life

Offenstetten Castle, domicile of Mrs. D'Ora

Her career began in the silent film era , with her role in the film The Pandora's Box in 1929, a world success. In May 1931 she was persuaded by the writer Erich Maria Remarque ( Nothing New in the West ) in Berlin's Eden Hotel to take part in the Miss Germany election. She won and was allowed to run for Miss Universe in Galveston (Texas) in the summer of the same year (after her own account in Miami , Florida). She took part as Miss Europe because the reservations against Germans because of the First World War seemed detrimental to a possible election and took 4th place under the name Daisy Freyberg .

On the Miss Germany website, the year of her victory is given as 1932 - strangely enough, but only in a list; in another on the same website this is attributed to Liselotte de Booy-Schulze .

After these successes, she also became known as a photo model. The Comedian Harmonists sang the beauty of Daisy d'Ora in the hit " Hello, what are you doing today, Daisy ". Daisy d'Ora married the embassy counselor Oskar Hermann Artur Schlitter , owner of the castle and estate Offenstetten (district of Abensberg in the Kelheim district ) since 1939 . He had been in the Foreign Service since 1929 and was ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Greece from 1964 to 1969. She lived with him for several years abroad, including in the USA and at Gut Offenstetten. After the Second World War , Daisy Schlitter and the director of the Catholic youth welfare in Regensburg founded a children's home there, named after the first American saint, Franziska Xaviera Cabrini Cabrini-Heim .

Daisy Schlitter was the oldest Miss Germany winner still alive in 1999, when the WDR documentary Miss-Successes. The story of Miss Germany was filmed (broadcast on January 5, 2000, 9.45 p.m.). On February 26, 2008, she celebrated her 95th birthday in Munich. She died on June 12, 2010 at the age of 97 in a retirement home in Munich, and was buried on June 17 in the family grave in Offenstetten.

literature

  • Veit Didczuneit, Dirk Külow: Miss Germany. The German beauty queen . S & L MedienContor, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-931962-94-6

Filmography

  • 1929: Pandora's box
  • 1929: The missing will
  • 1929: The Man Who Doesn't Love
  • 1929: The night whispers
  • 1929: The adolescents
  • 1930: freedom in shackles (also: probation period)
  • 1930: Only on the Rhine
  • 1989: The Road to War (as Daisy Schlitter)

swell

  1. ↑ 1920s Miss Universe at Pageantopolis (English) ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2009 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pageantopolis.com
  2. ↑ The winners 1927-2011 on missgermany.de . Retrieved August 31, 2014.
  3. ↑ The winners 1927-1952 on missgermany.de . Retrieved August 31, 2014.
  4. ^ Biography of Oskar Schlitters in the Federal Archives
  5. ↑ Village and castle history of Offenstetten ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2005 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pfarrei-offenstetten.de
  6. ↑ Mittelbayerische Zeitung of February 26, 2008
  7. ↑ Daisy Schlitter is dead . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung , June 14, 2010

Web links

predecessor Office Successor
Dorit Nitykowski Miss Germany
1931 		Liselotte de Booy-Schulze
personal data
SURNAME d'Ora, Daisy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freyberg zu Eisenberg, Daisy baroness von; Freyberg, Daisy Baroness von; Freyberg-Eisenberg, Daisy Freiin von; Schlitter, Daisy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, Miss Germany
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 2010
Place of death Munich