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Ilse Bois on a photograph by Nicola Perscheid

Ilse Bois (born March 11, 1896 in Berlin-Schöneberg , † August 1960 in London , United Kingdom ) was a German cabaret artist , actress and parodist .

Life

Like her brother Curt Bois , who is five years younger than her, Ilse Bois began her artistic career with children's roles in the theater. Both siblings often occurred together, including 1911 in the Circus Busch , where she appeared in the Shakespeare -Stück Richard II. Were seen. Shortly afterwards, especially between 1912 and 1918, Ilse Bois took part in many humorous silent films and appeared at Otto Reutter's Palast-Theater am Zoo.

With the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Ilse Bois concentrated on cabaret work. She celebrated successes in the Wilden Bühne and in the cabaret of comedians (KaDeKo), of which she belonged until the forced closure in 1933. As Jews, the Bois siblings had to flee Germany in 1933; they moved to Vienna together with Ilse's husband Kurt Robitschek .

In the following years the comedian, diseuse and cabaret artist commuted between several Western European countries for guest performances. In early December 1934 she made a guest appearance in the USA for the first time . The following year she went to London to perform a revue there. In May 1936 Ilse Bois and her husband moved to the USA. There the couple settled in New York , where Ilse Bois had been able to laboriously stay afloat as a cabaret artist (including at the newly founded KaDeKo in the Pythian Theater) and in the context of so-called colorful evenings since 1937. In addition, she also played classical theater (for example in the 1938 play Algiers ). She landed her last US success in 1945 at the New York Master Theater with a Löhner Beda sketch as part of an exile program.

In 1946 Ilse Bois, who often called herself Boas in English-speaking countries , returned to London. After Kurt Robitschek died in 1950, she remarried the following year. Unlike her brother Curt, Ilse Bois did not return to Germany.

Filmography

• 1912: Between two hearts
• 1913: In representation
• 1913: The mysterious club
• 1913: The veiled image of Groß-Kleindorf
• 1914: The flight into the sun
• 1916: Ilse, the millionaire bride (also production)
• 1916: Battle of the Titans
• 1916: The verification master's daughters
• 1917: Bobby as Cupid
• 1917: Marriage foundation with obstacles
• 1917: The troubled hotel
• 1917: The big lot
• 1917: Adventure in the department store
• 1918: a great rat
• 1918: The sister's brother
• 1927: The ghost train

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. 106 f.

Web links

• Ilse Bois in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ilse Bois at filmportal.de
• Ilse Bois at The German Early Cinema Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The death dates of March 5 and March 15, 1961, which are often to be read, are, as the London death register of 1960 shows, definitely not applicable