Grete Dierkes

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Margarete "Greta" Dierkes (* 20th November 1882 in Stainach -Irdning, Austria-Hungary , † 2. July 1957 in Vienna , Austria ) was an Austrian singer of the vocal range soprano and actress.

Life

Born in Styria, Margarete Dierkes was committed to the Ducal Court Theater in Dessau in 1905 . She held in 1907 in the imperial -Provinz ( Opava ) and worked as an actress and operetta soubrette .

The premiere of Leo Falls' operetta Der fidele Bauer , which took place on October 23, 1908 in the Theater des Westens , was a great success . In the piece Dierkes sang as Liesl with the seven-year-old Curt Bois as Heinerle in the duet Heinerle, Heinerle, I have no money . The song came into the cinemas in November 1908 as one of three sound images for the operetta by Deutsche Bioscop; Shortly thereafter, Duske-Berlin published "7 more scenes, with Miss Grete Dierkes and little Boas (sic!), The most talented child actor in Berlin". Heinerle, Heinerle, I have no money was also released on record. Scenes of the piece with part of the lyrics also appeared as a series of postcards. The song was also released in 2001 on the CD Reizend: 100 Jahre Curt Bois . Two sound recordings by Dierkes have survived from the end of December 1908: from Oscar Straus' play The Brave Soldier, the songs Without men, life has no purpose and three women sat by the hearth . From October 1911 there are sound recordings of the songs Who has never felt love , Then I close my eyes and Johann Strauss at the door of heaven .

Dierkes appeared in the role of the chanson singer Joujou in the company melodrama Musikantenlene , which premiered in November 1912 and was one of Austria's first full-length feature films. She returned to Vienna in October 1930, where she died almost 27 years later. She was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New magazine for music . Volume 101, Part 1, 1905, p. 431.
  2. ^ Deutscher Bühnenverein , Berlin, Cooperative of German Theater Members, Berlin, Stage Student Council (Reichstheaterkammer), Reichstheaterkammer. Stage Student Council: German Stage Yearbook: Theater History Year and Address Book, Volume 18 . Verlag FA Günther & Sohn, 1907, p. 667.
  3. ↑ Quotation from Walther Freisburger: Theater im Film: An investigation into the fundamentals and changes in the relationship between theater and film , H. & J. Lechte, 1936, p. 55.
  4. ↑ Frank-Burkhard Habel: That was our cinema !: The first fifty years: from living pictures to Ufa sound films. A foray into words and pictures . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 1995, p. 38.
  5. ↑ See picture postcard onansichtskartenhandel.at
  6. ↑ See irritant on worldcat.org
  7. ↑ See Grete Dierkes at AHRC Research Center for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music
  8. ^ Alan Kelly: His Master's Voice: The German Catalog: a Complete Numerical Catalog of German Gramophone Recordings Made from 1898 to 1929 in Germany, Austria, and Elsewhere by the Gramophone Company Ltd. Gramophone Company, EMI Music Archive, 1994, p. 879.
  9. ↑ Elisabeth Büttner , Christian Dewald: The daily burning: a history of Austrian film from its beginnings to 1945 . Volume 1. Residence 2002, p. 417.
  10. ↑ Walter Fritz, Margit Zahradnik (ed.): In the cinema I experience the world: 30 years of film reconstructions in the Austrian film archive . Austrian Film Archive, Volume 30, 1992, p. 34.
  11. ↑ Margaretha Dierkes grave site , Vienna, Zentralfriedhof, Group 10, Row 1, No. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Dierkes, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dierkes, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian singer with a soprano voice and actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Stainach -Irdning, Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 1957
Place of death Vienna , Austria