Elfi King

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Elfi König (born January 27, 1905 in Vienna ; † April 24, 1991 in Baden near Vienna ) was an Austrian operetta singer ( soprano ) and actress .

Act

König was best known as a stage actress and operetta singer. She worked as a soubrette in several world premieres and first performances of operettas of the so-called " Silver Operetta Era ", a. a. in October 1935 at the Zurich Opera House in the operetta Drei Walzer by Oscar Straus . In November 1935 she sang and played the title role of "Hopsa" in Burkhard's operetta Hopsa! at the Zurich Opera House. Burkhard succeeded in getting Elfi König, who was still little known at the time and who had personally applied for the role to him, to play the main role and not, as originally planned, Trude Lieske , the wife of music publisher Armin Robinson ; Burkhard himself later described Elfi König in his memoirs as a "being made of sugar and butter". At the premiere, König appeared in a Parisian model dress with a low-cut cleavage that she had ordered herself , which caused a sensation at the time. In October 1936, König took part in the world premiere of the operetta 3 x Georges by Paul Burkhard at the Zurich City Theater . In December 1936 she played at the Zurich City Theater in the world premiere of Ralph Benatzky's operetta Heart in the Snow . In September 1937 she took part in the world premiere of Pepöck's operetta Hofball in Schönbrunn at the Theater des Volkes in Berlin . In November 1937 she made a guest appearance under Burkhard's direction at the Swiss legation in Berlin with excerpts from Burkhard's new operetta Die Frauen von Coraya , which was then premiered in Stettin in February 1938 under the title Das Paradies der Frauen . In 1940 she played “Vroni Staudinger” at the premiere of Fred Raymond's operetta Salzburger Nockerln in Ostmark , two years after the premiere in Kiel. In 1943/1944 she worked as an actress at the Volkstheater in Vienna. In the theater in the Redoutensaal of the Hofburg , the alternative quarters of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Volksoper , she played the role of the tasting mam "Pepi Pleininger" in a total of 10 performances in Oscar Fritz Schuh's production of Wiener Blut in June / July 1945 . Between 1945 and 1950 she was seen at the Raimund Theater as " Försterchristl ". Among other things, König played the title role in Fritz Kreisler's operetta Sissy in 1947 , with Toni Niessner at her side in the role of " Franz Joseph ". There once jumped Elfie Ott and Oskar Werner and for the two.

She played in Canada in the 1950s . At the world premiere of Herbert Kramer's comedy Dinner for three in October 1952 at the Gesù Theater in Montreal , she played the role of "Doris". Together with Barry Morse she was appointed co-manager of the Montreal KoolVent Theater in October 1952. She appeared with the Canadian Players in their successful play Happy Time at the Gesù Theater and Her Majesty's Theater as well as in the staging of Rattigan's comedy French Without Tears .

Elfi König also took on a number of film and television roles. In a TV recording of Paul Burkhard's musical comedy Das Feuerwerk , which WDR recorded in June 1963 in the Komödienhaus Düsseldorf , she was seen in the comic role of "Aunt Berta", directed by Erik Ode .

Elfi King burial site

Her final resting place is in the cemetery in Untertullnerbach (II-87), municipality of Tullnerbach in Lower Austria .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ also written Elfie König
  2. ↑ a b König, Elfi (January 21, 1907 - April 24, 1991) in the card catalog of the Austrian National Library.
  3. ↑ Year of birth can also be found with 1905.
  4. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 7. Appendix. KG Saur Munich 2003. p. 5343.
  5. ^ A b c d Philipp Flury / Peter Kaufmann: O my papa ... Paul Burkhard. Life and work. With texts by Archimandrite Irenäus Totzke, Dr. Günter Birkner. Orell Füssli Publishing House. Zurich 1979. Pages 34–40.
  6. ↑ Hearts in the Snow ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. . Ralph Benatzky. Stage works (from 1932/33). Retrieved June 9, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ralph-benatzky.com
  7. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon Volume 4. Walter de Gruyter, 2004, Appendix, p. 2346. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  8. ↑ Hans-Dieter Roser : Operetta in Vienna 1938 to 1944. Landser would also like to have it frivolous! An inventory. At: Operalounge.de; Retrieved June 9, 2016.
  9. ↑ Performances with Elfie König. Vienna State Opera ; Retrieved June 9, 2016.
  10. ↑ chap. 2.4.6 Later reception - film adaptations ; in: Sabine Vernik-Eibl: Life and work of the composers Georg Jarno and Leo Ascher . Their importance for the Viennese operetta in the first two decades of the 20th century with an analysis by DIE FÖRSTER-CHRISTL and HOHEIT TANZT WALZER. Dissertation University of Vienna, 2011, p. 88 ( full text online - PDF; 2.4 MB)
  11. ^ Elfi König - title role in "Sissi" by Fritz Kreisler. Photo atelier D'Ora - Benda , June 4, 1947, in the Bildarchivaustria.at ( Austrian National Library ).
  12. ↑ Toni Niessner and Elfi König - Toni Niessner as 'Franz Josef' together with Elfi König as 'Elisabeth' in "Sissi" by Fritz Kreisler. Photo atelier D'Ora-Benda, June 4, 1947, in the Bildarchivaustria.at (Austrian National Library).
  13. ↑ Linda Zamponi: Hans Jaray , Paula Wessely in Sissy. In: Die Bühne , Ed. 292–315, p. 22. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  14. ↑ Elfie Koenig, Vienese Actress, to star in 'Dinner for three. In: The Gazette , Montreal, October 20, 1952, p. 17. ( Preview on Google News )
  15. ↑ Barry Morse and Elfi Koenig named directors of theater. In: The Gazette, Montreal, November 11, 1952, p. 13. ( Preview on Google News )
  16. ↑ Ian Dobbie, Elfi Koenig star in the comedy by Terence Rattigan. In: The Gazette, Montreal, June 20, 1953, p. 26. ( Preview on Google News )
  17. ↑ Men in their prime tell sex stories (1968) at The Movie Database (themoviedb.org); Retrieved June 9, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME King, Elfi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King, Elfie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian operetta singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1991
Place of death Baden near Vienna