Iska Geri

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Iska Geri (bourgeois Hildegard Lorenz nee Priedöhl ) (born April 28, 1914 in Stettin , † April 10, 2002 in Berlin ) was a German actress , diseuse and cabaret artist .

Life

Born as the daughter of the theater conductor Alfred Priedöhl (* 1881) and his wife Irma Kolberg (1892–1955) in Stettin , the family moved with her to Berlin soon after her birth , where she grew up. When she was 14 years old, the family moved back to Stettin, where they attended the Gesenius-Wegener-Oberlyzeum. Her father owned a large music shop in Szczecin.

She then went back to Berlin, where she studied singing and took acting and ballet lessons after having received dance and ballet lessons as a child. She first played in private theater associations, founded a puppet theater and then joined a cabaret group. Accompanied by her brother Wolfgang, she was heard for the first time with chansons on the Berlin radio in 1937, and Willi Schaeffers brought her to his cabaret of comedians in 1940 . In 1941 she made a guest appearance at La Scala , and she could also be heard on records. At the end of the Second World War , Geri lived in Prague after she had previously been banned from performing by the National Socialists for making critical statements.

Iska Geri played alongside Willy Fritsch in 1947 in Liebesexpress , the first revue after the war, which was shown in a tent on Hamburg's Moorweide . From 1949 Geri received the first film offers and starred in films such as Hallo, Fräulein! , Katchen for everything or The veiled Maja . At the beginning of the 1960s she was a regular guest on television, for example in four episodes of the Hesselbach trilogy or as Oma Haberkorn in the series Oma is Even Better . She was later seen in episode roles in series such as All Dogs Love Theobald , Decided and Announced, or A Case for Two . Her last role was that of Lisbeth in 11 episodes of the Immenhof series .

In addition, Iska Geri continued to play theater and went on tour with plays such as Peer Gynt and Faust . In 1979 she stood en suite for seven months in Walter Kollo's operetta As once in May on the stage of the Berlin Theater des Westens . Geri continued to work for radio and cabaret. After being in a relationship with Gert Fröbe for a short time , she married the composer Ralph Werner Lorenz in 1950 , who accompanied her on the piano from that time on and composed songs for her.

Iska Geri died shortly before her 88th birthday in Berlin and was buried on May 10, 2002 in the Wilmersdorf cemetery.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Discography (selection)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography at grammophon-platten.de , accessed on August 3, 2015 (The year of birth is also confirmed by the Wilmersdorf cemetery administration.)
  2. ↑ a b Funny with level , Hamburger Abendblatt from April 25, 2002 , accessed on August 3, 2015.
  3. ^ Information from the Wilmersdorf cemetery administration dated August 4, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Geri, Iska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Priedöhl, Hildegard (real name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, singer and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2002
Place of death Berlin