Emilie Kurz

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Emilie Maria Kurz , married Obogi , sometimes erroneously written Emilie Kurtz (born July 17, 1874 in Troppau , Austria-Hungary , † allegedly 1934 ) was an Austrian actress on German theaters and in German film.

Live and act

The daughter of August Kurz (1828–1903), a longstanding senior director at the Wallner Theater under Theodor Lebrun , was raised in a monastery school in Osterhofen , Bavaria . Shortly before the turn of the century, Emilie Kurz began to play theater; at the beginning of the 20th century she was a member of the Max Reinhardt German Theater ensemble for eleven years . After the First World War , she also played at other Berlin theaters such as the Centraltheater, the Thalia Theater and the Social Hygiene Stage in Berlin. During this time she met important contemporaries such as Emil Jannings , Ludwig Berger and Ernst Lubitsch .

In the middle of the First World War, she brought her colleague from the Deutsches Theater, Paul Wegener , in front of the camera and gave her two roles in his productions Rübezahl's Wedding and The Golem and the Dancer . In the film of the 1920s as well as on the stage, Emilie Kurz was now more and more used in the role of "comical old people". Again and again she embodied mothers of all kinds as well as aunts and governesses. She engaged FW Murnau several times for his cinema productions, where Emilie Kurz delivered concise character portrayals in supporting roles.

Emilie Kurz, married Obogi, was originally Jewish, but left Judaism in 1902. Whether their disappearance from the public attention in 1934 after it was (small) role in Fritz Wendland Stockhausen's Peer Gynt - film version of the just-established in Germany Nazism is related, can not currently be clarified. The circulating date of death 1934 is also not proven and must therefore at least be considered questionable.

Filmography

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film. Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 101.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ exact date and place of birth according to the film archive Kay Less
personal data
SURNAME In short, Emilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES In short, Emilie Maria (full name); Obogi; Kurtz, Emilie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress on German stages and in German film
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Opava , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1934