Josephine Joseph

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Josephine Joseph (born July 4, 1891 in Austria-Hungary , † July 11, 1966 in Wilmington , Delaware , United States ) was an Austrian actress who appeared in the American horror film Freaks and is said to have caused a worldwide scandal.

life and work

Little is known about Josephine Joseph. She is said to have been born to Polish parents in Austria. In the film Freaks by Tod Browning (1932) she appeared - in the ensemble of an illustrious circus company- as half man, half woman. The right half of the body was male, the left half was female: "The costume carefully divided along the longitudinal axis of the body, she joins the now legendary chant among the deformed guests at the wedding of a short man with a beautiful trapeze artist: 'We accept her, one of us!'" Josephine Joseph is said to have divided the cinema audience into two camps, many of them left the show in dismay, "in many countries the film was banned - in some American states this ban is still in place."

resonance

From 2007 to 2010 the artist worked Julia Jadkowski , Roswitha Emrich , Rico Schalück and Marcel Schwald a performative installation for 3 performers, 4KW light and one camera obscura, which was dedicated to the artist and the Kunsthaus Baselland and as part of Dance Days Berlin shown has been. In 2014 she was rediscovered by the Austrian news magazine Profil as the "ancestor of Conchita Wurst ".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Josephine Joseph: The ancestor of Conchita Wurst. In: profil , May 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ Josephine Joseph - Half Man Half Woman. Video on YouTube , accessed May 23, 2014.
  3. ↑ A Gender variant Who's Who. In: Zagria (blog), accessed May 23, 2014.
  4. ^ Josephine Joseph, Performance. ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: mars2meilen.com, accessed on May 23, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mars2meilen.com
personal data
SURNAME Joseph, Josephine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1966
Place of death Wilmington , Delaware , United States