Hannah Norbert

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Hannah Norbert , also Hannah Norbert-Miller , stage name Hanne Norbert , real name Hanne Nussbaum (Nussbaum) (born February 25, 1916 in Vienna ; died December 17, 1998 in London ) was an Austrian - British actress and cabaret artist .

Life

Hannah Norbert, who wanted to become an actress at a young age, attended the girls' secondary school in Vienna- Döbling . At the age of 14, she turned to the Austrian actor Hans Thimig without her parents' knowledge to ask him about her qualifications for a stage career ; Thimig classified her as "talented" and advised her to train. At the beginning of the 1930s she wrote to the actor Ernst Deutsch , who was playing at the Burgtheater in Vienna at the time , who in a letter to her father attested that she had a “special talent”.

From 1933 to 1935, Norbert received her acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. She then quickly had theater engagements in Switzerland, Vienna and Innsbruck. Among other things, she had an engagement at the "Theater for 49" in Vienna, directed by Ernst Jubal , and at the Städtebundtheater Biel-Solothurn , where in 1935 she played the title role in Maria Stuart , alongside the Austrian actress Isolde Milde (as Queen Elisabeth I) . In 1937 she was sold to the Vienna Chamber Games obliged and went there as Ruth in The Confession of Ernest Vajda on. She played her last performances in Austria in February / March 1938 at the Stadttheater Innsbruck , where, under the name Hanne Norbert , she was engaged in the role of "Lover and Salon Lady " for the title role in Georg Rendl's new play Elisabeth, Empress of Austria . On March 12, 1938, immediately after the " Anschluss of Austria ", her contract, which actually ran until April 3, 1938, was terminated with immediate effect due to her Jewish descent.

After her promising career had come to an abrupt end when the National Socialists came to power, she left Austria in March 1938. She traveled across the Austrian-Swiss border, where her foreign currency was withheld, to France, where she then moved from Boulogne-sur- Mer made the crossing to Great Britain. However, in the absence of a valid visa, she was refused entry. She then went back to Paris , where she lived from March 1938 to August 1939. According to her own statement, she got a small role in a film by Sacha Guitry in Paris despite the lack of a work permit ; Another film engagement that she had the prospect of, she could no longer accept because of her departure. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II , she succeeded in her second attempt in August 1939 with the help of a visa that her parents, who had lived in Great Britain since September 1938, had received in Vienna.

In England she first appeared on the “Small Stage” of the Free German Cultural Association (FDKB) in London and in 1939 she became a member of the “Das Laterndl” cabaret, which is based in the Austrian Center in London and consists of emigrants. There she played, among others, Margarete in Arthur Schnitzler's one-act literature in 1940/1941 , which was shown as part of the “Laterndl” program Wiener Miniatures .

From 1943 Hannah Norbert was a permanent employee in the Austrian and German departments of the BBC London , where she participated in German-language propaganda programs against the Nazi regime; after the Second World War she worked for the BBC World Service . She has worked as an actress and radio play speaker on a number of British radio and television programs. Among other things, she took on the speaking roles in recordings of Viennese operettas , which were made in the mid-1950s with the participation of numerous actors in exile ( Karel Štěpánek , Lea Seidl , Anton Diffring ) in London for the EMI record company. In Wiener Blut (recorded 1954) she spoke the dancer Franziska Cagliari, lending her voice to Erika Köth ; In One Night in Venice (also recorded in 1954) she took on the role of the unfaithful senator's wife Barbara Delacqua.

Occasionally Hannah Norbert was seen in smaller film roles in cinema productions; she has performed in Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), directed by John Schlesinger , the mother, by Peter Finch embodied, gay general practitioner Dr. Daniel Hirsh. In 1973 she worked on the reminiscence program of the Austrian Cultural Institute with the title Das Laterndl - A look back .

Hannah Norbert was married to actor and director Martin Miller from 1946 until his death and has since performed under the name Hannah Norbert-Miller. Their son is the music producer Daniel Miller . Hannah Norbert died at the age of 82. Her estate is in the Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Archive in London.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon . Supplementary volume, part 4: M – Pa. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-036175-9 , p. 306. (accessed via De Gruyter online).
  • Norbert, Hanne , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933 - 1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , pp. 703f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Archive . Official website. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Life before 1938: Hannah in Vienna . Biography until 1938. Official website of the Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert Miller Archive London. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Tag Archives: connection . Biography from 1938. Official website of the Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert Miller Archive London. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Theatrical Lives from Vienna to London ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert Miller biographies. Official website of the Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert Miller Archive London. Retrieved May 2, 2017.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk
  5. ↑ "Literature" photographs . Inventory of the Senate House Libraries (University of London). Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  6. ↑ Viennese blood . Occupation. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  7. ↑ One night in Venice . Cast and CD review. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Norbert, Hannah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Norbert-Miller, Hannah (full name); Norbert, Hanne (stage name); Nussbaum, Hanne (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-British actress and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1998
Place of death London , England, UK