Ida Orloff

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Ida Orloff , pseudonym of Ida Margaretha Siegler von Eberswald , née Weißbeck , called Iduschka (born  February 16, 1889 in St. Petersburg , †  April 9, 1945 in Tullnerbach ) was an Austrian - Russian actress , translator .

Ida Orloff as Gersuind in Berlin on January 11, 1908 during the premiere of Hauptmanns Kaiser Karls Geisel .
Ida Orloff in Hanneles Ascension

Life

When Ida Orloff was four years old, her father Georg Weißbeck died. A few years later, her mother Ida married the Austrian nobleman and officer Georg Siegler, Edler von Eberswald.

As a young girl, Ida attended a convent school. In Vienna she later attended the Otto Theater School . In 1905 she played a small role in the play The Pandora's Box by Frank Wedekind , in which her friend Tilly Newes also played. In the drama Kleine Sklavin by Anton Dietzenschmidt she played the title role.

At the age of 16, she had a liaison with Gerhart Hauptmann , who was married to Margarete Marschalk at the time . Hauptmann saw her as a muse ( she should be to me what Beatrice to Dante , in spite of everything. I adhere to the spotless, immortal ; diary entry of April 10, 1906) and mistress , while she admired him and hoped that she would of his Experience and his contacts. The contact between the two lasted for a long time and was continued in letters. In later years, however, many letters or written requests from her to him went unanswered.

On July 23, 1907, she married her childhood friend Karl Satter. At the Lessing Theater in Berlin , she played the only female role, Gersuind, in Gerhart Hauptmann's play Kaiser Karls Geisel . On January 20, 1908, Ida and Karl divorced, but the two lived together for ten more years. On September 27, 1908, she gave birth to her son Hermann. The following year she received an engagement at the Vienna Burgtheater . In 1913 she took on a film role in the Danish silent film Atlantis , which castle actors were not allowed under the contract. She responded to corresponding reactions from Vienna with public criticism and was then dismissed. In the autumn she founded her own theater group with which she performed in Russia . However, since this was not accompanied by financial success, she returned to Vienna in 1913.

After the outbreak of World War I , she accompanied her divorced husband Karl to Copenhagen , who wanted to avoid military service there. In 1916 a second son died there just six weeks after he was born. The following year she became pregnant again. During the pregnancy her marriage finally broke up and she returned to Vienna . She gave her newborn son (* 1918) into the hands of her sister-in-law Hanna and - due to a lack of engagement at the Vienna Burgtheater - traveled back to Berlin with her eldest son .

Readings were added to appearances in various (second-rate) plays. Orloff translated Russian fiction literature and gave acting classes. Her financial situation was very tense until 1923 (until 1933) she was given a permanent position as a dramatic broadcaster. She worked for the Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG) and the Funk-Hour Berlin . She could be heard alongside Richard Ohnsorg in the title role of Hauptmanns Und Pippa tanzt (1924) and in the same role in Hanneles Himmelfahrt (1925), here with Theodor Loos as a partner.

In 1933 she emigrated to Italy with Franz Leppmann , her second husband, as well as their son Wolfgang Leppmann (1922–2002) , where she and her husband worked at the rural school home in Florence until it was closed in 1938 . Since Italy partially extradited German emigrants to the German Reich , and her husband was threatened with extradition, Orloff turned to Gerhart Hauptmann, who was highly valued by the National Socialists , for help . He replied that he couldn't help. So she moved to England for a short time before returning to Berlin; The husband and son stayed in London . She got divorced and in 1941 she had yet another success as a captain actress at the Berlin Rose Theater . She later retired to Vienna and from 1942 lived in Tullnerbach near Vienna.

During the battle for Vienna at the end of World War II , on April 9, 1945, she committed out of fear of looting and rape suicide . She was buried in her property in Tullnerbach and transferred to the Pressbaum cemetery in 1953 . The grave can no longer be found.

Filmography

Radio plays

literature

  • Siegler-Eberswald, Ida . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
  • Heinrich Satter: Neither angel nor devil: Ida Orloff. Scherz, Munich 1967 DNB 458807427
    • New edition: Ida Orloff and Gerhart Hauptmann. Neither angel nor devil. Ullstein, Frankfurt 1996 ISBN 3-548-35610-9
  • Eva Bakos: Wild Viennese women. Life between taboo and freedom. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1999 ISBN 3-8000-3744-0
  • Gerhart Hauptmann: Gerhart Hauptmann and Ida Orloff: Documentation of a poetic passion . Propylaea, Berlin 1969
  • Irmtraud Ubbens: The country school home in Florence In: Childhood and youth in exile. A generation theme (= exile research. An international yearbook , 24). Edition text + kritik, Munich 2006 ISBN 3-88377-844-3 p. 117ff

Web links

Commons : Ida Orloff  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irmtraud Ubbens: Das Landschulheim in Florenz , p. 129
  2. ^ Das Haus Ullstein , Ullstein Buchverlage, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-550-08046-3 , p. 257.
  3. ↑ Orloff's son from 1st marriage
personal data
SURNAME Orloff, Ida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siegler von Eberswald, Ida Margaretha (real name); Weißbeck, Ida (maiden name); Iduschka (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Actress and lover of the writer Gerhart Hauptmann
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1945
Place of death Tullnerbach , Austria