Kary Barnet
Kary Barnet (born August 14, 1923 in Prague , † November 21, 1972 in Munich ) was a German singer .
Life
Origin and first film roles
Her Czech birth name was Charlotte Alžběta Tremlová, her German Charlotte Elisabeth Treml. She grew up in Prague, as was customary in upper-class families at the time, bilingually (Czech / German) as the daughter of bank director Franz Treml. Although she described herself as the "black sheep" of the family, her parents apparently did not put any obstacles in the way of her artistic training. She is said to have attended the Prague Art Academy, the Conservatory in Paris and Tilla Durieux's drama school in Berlin. As a minor she got her first film roles in the Czech comedies Paní Kačka zasahuje ("Frau Kačka intervenes", 1939) and Prosím, pane profesore ("Please, Professor", 1940).
Career in World War II
In Berlin she was engaged at the famous Scala Variety Theater and from then on called herself Kary Barnet. The swing musicians Michael Jary and Benny de Weille were among their sponsors . In 1943 she began as a singer and presenter at the soldier broadcaster Belgrade , where she was called a "siren" because of her disarming charm and was the first woman to speak "Greetings from home". At the Christmas concert on December 25, 1943, she sang roses do not bloom in winter and was a great success. At the German film production company Prag-Film AG she was seen in the film Dir zu Liebe (1944) as a singer with the song I'm in love with a melody . Barnet mainly interpreted songs by her mentor Michael Jary, but also by Peter Igelhoff , Franz Grothe and Heino Gaze .
Tours and film appearances after 1945
Barnet is said to have lost a child and her brother in the war. After the end of the Third Reich, she fled to Frankfurt am Main and initially worked as a cleaning lady, nanny and mannequin. Benny de Weille soon brought her to Radio Frankfurt, from where she continued her singing career. She had numerous appearances at NWDR and Bayerischer Rundfunk , completed tours to Spain, France and Switzerland.
About fifty songs were published by her on shellac records in the 1940s and 1950s , such as I will never leave my Peter alone from March 1944. About twenty of these historical recordings were later also released on CD.
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In 1951 she worked as a small actress in the film Fanfares of Love (directed by Kurt Hoffmann ), a year later she also sang the song Do you please in a minor role in the military comedy Fritz and Friederike alongside Liselotte Pulver and Otto Fee not so bad a face . In the film The Veiled Maja (1951, directed by Géza von Cziffra), she was accompanied by the Max Greger orchestra with the song Do not drive to the North Pole . Kary Barnet was very cosmopolitan, allegedly spoke and sang in seven languages and traveled around the world, both professionally and privately.
Private life
She was married four times, her first marriage to the Nazi journalist and chief editor of the Berliner 12-Uhr-Blatt , Wilhelm Fanderl , a favorite of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels . Fanderl met Kary Barnet at La Scala, where he had free admission every day and was allowed to watch the revue girls from the orchestra pit. The marriage ended in divorce in 1944. Her second husband was Hans Huffzky , who participated in the Russia campaign and was the chief editor of the short-lived Army newspaper (published from August 1942) and, after the war, editor-in-chief of the Hamburg women's magazine Constanze (divorced before 1949). She concluded her third marriage (presumably in 1952) with the American Leslie von Schwetzer (also von Shwetzer), who was the program manager of the AFN soldier broadcaster in Frankfurt and lived with him temporarily in Los Angeles. She emigrated to the Indian city of Brajarajnagar in the state of Odisha (until 2011 Orissa) with her fourth husband, who was not known by name, a German . It is not known when she returned to Germany.
Kary Barnet died in an apartment fire in Munich in 1972 and was buried in the Munich forest cemetery.
Web links
- Kary Barnet ( Memento from July 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on www.fuenfzigerjahresaenger.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://archive.today/20130206123809/http://www.fuenfzigerjahresaenger.de/Lexikon/Barnet.htm
- ↑ I never leave my Peter alone on YouTube
- ↑ https://archive.today/20130206123809/http://www.fuenfzigerjahresaenger.de/Lexikon/Barnet.htm
- ↑ Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters, 1898-1945 , Göttingen 1991 (self-published)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barnet, Kary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1972 |
| Place of death | Munich |