Hedwig Schlichter

Hedwig Schlichter , in Argentine exile Hedy Crilla or Krilla (born September 26, 1898 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † March 31, 1984 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was an Austrian actress , director , theater director and acting teacher.

Life

Hedwig Schlichter received her artistic training at Vienna's Academy for Music and Performing Arts . In 1920 she went to the Szczecin City Theater. Other theater stations were Vienna, Munich , Leipzig and Berlin , where she appeared at the theater in Klosterstrasse, among others. Between 1929 and 1933 Schlichter received supporting roles in several German films. Engaged in 1933 at the Deutsches Theater and the Deutsches Künstlertheater , the Austrian artist received only one follow-up engagement in Germany, from the theater on Stresemannstrasse, before the National Socialistswas excluded from gaming. The Jewish artist then decided to emigrate .

Schlichter first went to Paris , where she appeared at the Cercle Culturel Autrichien alongside Leon Askin . In 1939 she emigrated to Argentina. In Buenos Aires she called herself Hedy Crilla and continued to play theater. In the beginning she preferred to perform at Paul Walter Jacobs ’ emigrant venue Freie Deutsche Bühne ( Teatro alemán independiente ). There she was successful in pieces by Somerset Maughams , Lillian Hellmans and Henrik Ibsens . Hedy Crilla also appeared sporadically with small parts in Argentinian films. The actress also directed theater and gave acting lessons. In doing so, she was guided by the teaching methods of Stanislawski and Strasberg .

From 1947 Hedy Crilla ran a children's theater and founded the Escuela de Arte Escénico de la Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, a training center for theater artists. She also continued to direct plays, including Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening in 1976 and David Edgard's Mary Barnes in 1982 . In 1977 she gave her farewell performance as an actress. Hedwig "Hedy" Schlichter / Crilla, who occasionally changed her Spanish spelling to "Krilla", has also worked in Argentinian television productions.

Movies

1929: Diary of a lost one
1931: girls in uniform
1932: Eight girls in the boat
1932: The beautiful adventure
1932: The child's first right
1932: A door opens
1932: What do men know?
1933: Dawn
1933: Shots at the border
1942: Ceniza al viento
1947: Hot soil ( Tierra del Fuego )
1948: La hostería del caballito blanco
1949: Un pecado por mes
1950: El ladrón canta boleros
1969: Invasión
1970: Juan Lamaglia y señora
1975: El pibe cabeza

literature

Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 443.

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personal data
SURNAME	Arbitrator, Hedwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Crilla, Hedy (name in Argentina); Krilla, Hedy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian actress, director, theater director and acting teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	September 26, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	March 31, 1984
Place of death	Buenos Aires , Argentina