Hortense raky

Hortense Raky , married Hortense Paryla (born August 27, 1918 in Berlin ; † September 25, 2006 in Vienna ), daughter of Anton Raky (1868–1943), was an Austrian theater and film actress.

Life

As early as 1934 she performed successfully at the Theater in der Josefstadt in The Princess on the Ladder ( My sister and I ) (directed by Otto Preminger ). In November 1934 she played on the same stage with her future husband, Karl Paryla, in Carl Zuckmayer's Der Schelm von Bergen . and in Sidney Kingsley's people in White ( Men in White ) (directed by Otto Preminger).

The best-known film for which she was in front of the camera is Burgtheater from 1936. After Austria's annexation to the German Empire, she went to Budapest to film in 1937. In 1938, Hortense Raky appeared in Amsterdam and Schevingen in the exile cabaret theater of celebrities . In the same year she emigrated to Switzerland. There she was engaged at the Zürcher Schauspielhaus . After the Second World War she was employed at German theaters. Among other things, from 1957 at the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin , where she had moved with her family. One of her most outstanding stage roles is the portrayal of Miller in Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe (1965).

In the 1960s she played at the Munich Kammerspiele under Fritz Kortner in Richard the Third and in Die Zwiessprache and under August Everding in Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti .

From 1939 until his death in 1996, Hortense Raky was married to the important Austrian actor and director Karl Paryla (1905-1996). The two sons that emerged from this marriage also became actors: Nikolaus Paryla (* 1939) and Stephan Paryla-Raky (* 1948). Hortense Raky was buried in the honorary family grave of her husband in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Filmography

• 1936: The women's paradise
• 1936: Burgtheater
• 1937: Roxy and the wonder team , also called: 3: 1 for love , or: The kidnapped bride
• 1956: Gasparone
• 1974: convicted in 1910 (TV)
• 1977: The Emmingers (TV series)

Voice actress

• 1938: As a dubbing actress, Hortense Raky spoke and sang Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) , the first German-language dubbed version of the cartoon by Walt Disney . This production took place in Amsterdam.

Awards

• 1979: Josef Kainz Medal of the City of Vienna

literature

• Anna Beck: Hortense Raky . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1459.
• Fritz Walden : The artist and the bridge . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 12, 1976, p. 15 , top left ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
• 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. P. 405 f., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

Web links

• Hortense Raky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Interview with Nikolaus Paryla (PDF; 53 kB)
• Pictures by Hortense Raky In: Virtual History
• Unwanted cinema. The German-language émigré film 1934-1937

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Paryla . In: friedhoefewien.at , accessed on April 1, 2016.
2. ↑ W. v. E.g.  theater. In:  Wiener Salonblatt , No. 17/1934 (LXV. Year), August 12, 1934, p. 8, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ^ Siegfried Geyer :  Theater of the week: Zuckmayer and the others. In:  Wiener Sonn- und Mondags -Zeitung , No. 46/1934 (LXXII. Year), November 12, 1934, p. 8, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ Sidney Kingsley: People in White. Play in 3 acts . (Role book, copied by machine). Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna 1934, OBV .
5. ↑ Dialog list for the Hortense Raky film "Das Frauenparadies" . (Typewritten text, autographed). Vienna 1936, OBV .
6. ↑ Hortense Raky - Werner Krauss. In:  film start. The organ of world's film production. Le journal de la cinematographie mondiale. Die Zeitung der Welt-Filmproduktion , year 1936, issue September 1936, p. 2 middle. (Online at ANNO ). .