Friedel Schuster

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Friedel Schuster (born May 12, 1903 in Remscheid , † January 20, 1983 in Mendig , near Andernach am Rhein ) was a German operetta singer ( soprano ), film actress and voice actress .

Life

Friedel Schuster received her musical vocal training at the Berlin University of Music . She made her debut in 1930 with a recital in Berlin. She began her stage career in the early 1930s as a soubrette at the Städtische Oper Berlin-Charlottenburg , where she was a permanent member of the ensemble in the 1931/32 season. In 1931 she appeared at the Großes Schauspielhaus Berlin in Max Reinhardt's productions of the beautiful Helena and Hoffmann's stories . She then had theater engagements at the Deutsches Theater Berlin (1931-1932), at the Cabaret of Comedians in Berlin (1932-1933), at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm (1933-1934), at the Komische Oper Berlin , at the Komödienhaus and the Komödie Berlin (season 1935/36), at the theater in the Admiralspalast (season 1936/37), at the Renaissance Theater Berlin (1939–1943) and at the Metropoltheater Berlin (season 1943/44; before the war-related closure of all theaters). She was well known as an operetta and radio singer in those years. She had great success in Berlin in 1938 with the title role in Paul Lincke's operetta Frau Luna .

After the Second World War she switched to acting and worked as a theater actress in Berlin , for example at the Hebbeltheater Berlin (1945; as Metella in Parisian life ), at the Komödie Berlin (1947–1948) and at the Schloßparktheater Berlin (1951–1953; as a guest) . She also gave numerous guest performances at the Renaissance Theater Berlin and the Theater am Kurfürstendamm. She played u. a. in plays by François Mauriac , Edgar Wallace , Edmund Wolf (1910–1997), Christopher Fry , Ernst Penzoldt , Eugène Scribe (Lady Churchill in Das Glas Wasser , Schloßparktheater 1951) and Louis Verneuil .

Schuster also worked in musical films. In 1931 she played Viktoria and her Husar after Paul Abraham in the film adaptation of the operetta, alongside Michael Bohnen and Iván Petrovich . She sang the operetta hits Nur ein Mädchen and Rote Orchidsen . Her film debut was a huge success. In 1933 she could be seen alongside Lilian Harvey , Conrad Veidt and Heinz Rühmann in Ich und die Kaiserin .

Nothing is known about her private life. Presumably at the beginning of the 1930s, she married her fellow actor Iván Petrovich . After the war, she began her career as a voice actress in 1949. Her synchronous roles included u. a. Myrna Loy ( Cheaper by the Dozen , marriageable by the Dozen , Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ), Paulette Goddard ( The indifferent ), Jessie Royce Landis ( To Catch a Thief , North by Northwest ) and Angela Lansbury ( Blue Hawaii ). Furthermore, she lent her voice to various Disney characters : Bambi's mother in Bambi , Madame Mim in The Witch and the Magician or the evil stepmother in Cinderella .

In the 1960s she worked again in several feature and television films, for example in 1968 as Lady Sharringham in the Edgar Wallace film adaptation of The Man with the Glass Eye . “Friedel Schuster as Lady Sharringham can boast of having delivered one of the most impressive gangster roles in the series. One wishes the plague on her neck. "(Florian Pauer: The Edgar Wallace Films )

Audio documents

The catalog of the music archive at DNB has 20 entries by Friedel Schuster. She took records at Lindströms Odeon - label and Telefunken on.

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Filmography

Feature films

Television films

  • 1954: Robber story
  • 1959: The love of the year. A musical grotesque
  • 1965/1966: Live like a prince
  • 1971: The Trojan armchair

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. de Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 679.
  • Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): Deutsches Theater Lexikon. Volume III: Pallenberg - Singer. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1971, ISBN 3-907820-29-0 , p. 2129. (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
  • Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 6: Rasa-Sutton. Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , p. 4300.
  • Berthold Leimbach: audio documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945 . Self-published, Göttingen 1991.
  • Florian Pauer: The Edgar Wallace Films. Citadel Film Book, ed. v. Joe Hembus , me preface by Pamela Wallace. Goldmann, Munich 1962.
  • Wolfgang Schneidereit: Discography of the vocal interpreters of the light muse from 1925 to 1945 in German-speaking countries. A discography with biographical information in 3 volumes. Volume 3: Ethel Reschke to Slobodan Zivojnovic. Verlag Books on Demand, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7528-2834-4 , pp. 1303-1305.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to other sources such as Kosch and Kutsch / Riemens on June 21, 1904
  2. ↑ According to other sources on January 21
  3. ↑ Lt. The registration office of the Mendig community is the anniversary of death on January 20th.
personal data
SURNAME Schuster, Friedel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German operetta singer, film actress and voice actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1983
Place of death Mendig