Flory Jacobi

Flory Jacobi , actually Armide Valeska Florence Jacobi (born October 26, 1902 in Wiesbaden , † September 24, 1981 in Ettelbrück , Luxembourg ) was a German actress and broadcaster.

life and career

Her father was a merchant; her sister Eugenie (1895–1968) was also an actress. From 1911 to 1915 Flory Jacobi played numerous children's roles at the Meininger Hoftheater . Roles like Clara Eugenie in Schiller's Don Karlos , Annchen in Goethe's Stella or the soldier's boy in Wallenstein's camp , also by Schiller, soon made “Florchen” Jacobi a child prodigy.

From 1918 to 1920 she played in Berlin at the “Luisentheater” (before it was converted into a cinema), then in Hanau and between 1921 and 1927 at the Stadttheater Chemnitz . Flory Jacobi came to Leipzig via Altenburg and Berlin in 1931 and worked as a spokesperson for Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG . Between 1941 and 1944 she was a spokeswoman for the Reichsender Böhmen in Prague . After the end of the Second World War , she returned to Leipzig and worked again from 1946 to 1949 as a spokesperson for the newly founded Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk . She also took on guest roles at the Theater der Junge Welt . She then moved to Stuttgart, where she played in the comedy at the Marquardt and took part in the young theater. In 1963 she made her way to Munich. There she played, among other things, in the small comedy at Max II .

From the mid-1950s she also took on roles in film and television. So she was the Ms. Munzenberger in the ARD series Die Firma Hesselbach or played a supporting role in Die Fernfahrer . She played in television films such as Clothes Make People from 1963, Pension Schöller (1965) or “Der müde Theodor” (1965), but also supporting roles in literary adaptations such as Der Caucasian Chalk Circle (1958) by Bertolt Brecht and Mr. Puntila und seine Knecht Matti (1966 ). In 1963 she played the wife of master tailor Titus Hasenklein ( Willy Reichert ) in the swank “Hasenklein can't help it”, and as the eccentric mother of Hans Clarin , she appeared in 1963 in “Der irascible young man” (based on Anton Chekhov ). It was shown in the early Dürrenmatt adaptation Der Richter und seine Henker from 1957 (director: Franz Peter Wirth ) or in Rainer Wolffhardt's film "Moral" from 1958 (based on Ludwig Thoma ) and in the docudrama "The Mata Hari Case" (1966) further film presence. One of her last works in front of the television camera is the drama from Ula Stöckl's pen , “The Little Lion and the Great or the Patriarchs and Diplomacy”, from 1973.

In addition to her performing activities, Flory Jacobi also gave acting lessons.

Private life

On October 30, 1922, she married the Brazilian employee of the art salon Emil Richter and later screenwriter, director and film editor Milo Harbich (1900–1988). The marriage was divorced on September 13, 1927.

Their daughter Louise Adeleide was born on June 19, 1928 in Chemnitz . As early as 1933, when she was five years old, she had speaking roles for the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG. Later she worked as an actress, cabaret artist and director under the stage name Haidy Jacobi at the theater. From the early 1960s she was the spokesperson for Radio Luxemburg's German-language program for almost 20 years ; later she moved to the feature film editorial team of the German-language RTL television program. Adelaide (Haidy) Harbich died on June 26, 2005 in a nursing home in Luxembourg. Her son, and Flory Jacobi's grandson, Konrad "Conny" Scheel lives in Luxembourg and works in the arts, including as an actor.

Flory Jacobi lived for a while in a senior citizens' residence in Ingolstadt (1974 to 1978), then she settled in Ettelbrück in Luxembourg, where she also died on September 24, 1981.

Filmography

Television films

• 1956 gas light, as Elizabeth
• 1957 The judge and his executioner, as Frau Schönler
• 1958 Moral, as Klara Bolland
• 1963 Clothes make the man, as a cook
• 1963 The conceited doctor, as Mimi
• 1963 Hasenklein can't help it but Ms. Hasenklein
• 1963 The irascible young man as Nikolai's mother
• 1965 You shouldn't poison your uncle, as Rosa
• 1965 The tired Theodor , as Rosa Hagemann
• 1965 Pension Schöller , as Ulrike Sprosser
• 1965 Party in the Twilight, as Mrs. Stephens
• Lord Arthur Savile's crime, as a housekeeper
• 1967 Playing with Death as Arischa
• 1966 Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti , as provost
• 1966 The Mata Hari case (docudrama), as Anna Lintjens
• 1968 Our dearest friend, as Mildred Kelsey
• 1968 Altaich , as Sephi
• 1968 With oak leaves and fig leaf (small supporting role)
• 1970 The bed student or what do I do with the girls? (Role unknown)
• 1972 Don Pasquale, as Eulalia and notary
• 1973 Sylvie (role unknown)
• 1973 The Little Lion and the Great or The Patriarchs and Diplomacy, as Signora

Series

• 1957 He and You - TV course for life as a couple
• 1962 The Hesselbach company , Mrs. Münzenberger, two episodes
• 1964 truck driver , episode "The Driver Test", as Mrs. Obermaier
• 1966 Intercontinental Express , episode "The Journey to Rome", as Alma
• 1971 No talk of love . First episode “Why not to Hungary?” As Ms. Rietspruht

Web links

• Flory Jacobi in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Meininger actors and the film PDF, 329 kB, p. 37