Grit Hegesa

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Grit Hegesa on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Grit Hegesa , born Caroline Margaretha Schmidt , (born December 23, 1891 in Niederlahnstein , † January 17, 1972 in Munich ) was a German dancer and silent film actress .

Life

Born in the Rhineland, she attended a convent school before receiving speaking and dancing lessons in Brighton, England (before the First World War) . Back in Germany, she married the Rhensian businessman Johann Nikolaus Meyer on April 22, 1911 . The marriage was divorced on March 1, 1919. Then Grit Hegesa accepted engagements at stages such as the Deutsches Theater in Cologne and the Palast Theater in Berlin. She gave her own dance evenings at the small theater in the Reich capital run by Max Reinhardt . From 1920 to 1922 she worked with Jaap Kool , who composed for her and accompanied her on the piano.

At the beginning of the First World War she was sent to the Netherlands by the imperial government for propaganda purposes. Since the late phase of the war, there have also been film commitments. Especially in the first two post-war years you saw Grit Hegesa with a number of leading roles in cinema productions; She was also cast as a dancer several times, e.g. B. at the side of Conrad Veidt in the expressionist material Wahnsinn . After her last role as Cissy Mohr in the adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's Fräulein Else , a rather small part, the artist withdrew from film and occasionally devoted herself to her actual profession, dance. Grit Hegesa was married to the painter Emil van Hauth on April 8, 1925 .

Filmography

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Berlin 1926
  • Degener's who is it 1935 under Emil van Hauth
  • Hans-Michael Bock (Ed. Together with Cine-Graph - Hamburg Center for Film Research eV): Hegesa, Grit , in: The UFA - Book: Art and crises, stars and directors, business and politics; the international history of Germany's largest film company. Frankfurt: Verlag Zweausendeins 1992, here p. 94,165 A. Mainly illustrations and photos, graphic representations, 528 p.
  • Hans Joachim Bodenbach: Grit Hegesa, dancer and silent film star from Niederlahnstein , in: Rhein-Lahn-Kreis Heimatjahrbuch 2002, Bad Ems, pages 147–153 (with 2 photos, 1 painting and 1 drawing by Grit Hegesa)
  • Hans Joachim Bodenbach: The painter Emil van Hauth (1899-1977) from Mayen in the Eifel . In: Heimatbuch 2005 Kreis Mayen- Koblenz, Koblenz 2004, pp. 79–83, with 7 illustrations. Title picture on book cover with color illustrations. of the painting "Grit Hegesa" [wife] of the painter Emil van Hauth, also 1st inside (half-page) the same color photo, 2nd page with small picture ditto in color.
  • Margot Klütsch: Emil van Hauth: In the style of New Objectivity - Experiment and Convention [title page of the booklet] Emil van Hauth painted modern city women and still life in delicate, metallic shimmering colors in Berlin of the Roaring Twenties in the style of New Objectivity . In: Weltkunst: Die Zeitschrift für Kunst und Antiquitäten, 75, 4, Munich 2005, pp. 66–69, [with full-page color portrait of Grit Hegesa, the artist's wife, on p. 69].

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dances and dance scenes for piano from the repertoire of Grit Hegesa , 49 SA Fürstner, Berlin 1920. OCLC 255759705
  2. ↑ Dances and dance styles from the repertoire of Grit Hegesa for piano , piano reduction, 49 SA Fürstner, Berlin 1920. OCLC 610619315
  3. ^ Hegesa-tango (hege-es-a) , full score, 5 SA Fürstner, Berlin 1922. OCLC 71487256
personal data
SURNAME Hegesa, grit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Caroline Margaretha (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer and silent film actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederlahnstein
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1972
Place of death Munich