Lída Baarová

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Lída Baarová (1940)

Lída Baarová (born September 7, 1914 as Ludmila Babková in Prague , † October 27, 2000 in Salzburg ) was a Czech actress and singer . Due to its proximity to the National Socialist elite, it was controversial throughout her life.

Life

After completing her training at the drama conservatory in Prague, Lída Baarová made her first film at the age of 17. She also recorded some records. In 1934 she was hired by the UFA , learned German and made Barcarole in 1935 . The main male role in this production was played by the married German actor Gustav Fröhlich , with whom Baarová was henceforth a relationship; they lived together in a house on the island of Schwanenwerder in Berlin . This was followed by other films such as one too much on board (1935), Verräter (1936), Patrioten (1937) and Die Fledermaus (1937) as well as engagements at the Deutsches Theater and the Volksbühne Berlin . Baarová was used by the German film industry in the role of an exotic vamp and until 1938 almost exclusively embodied such characters. She turned down a lucrative offer, a seven-year high-value contract from Hollywood. Reich propaganda leader Goebbels had announced that she would not get any engagements in Germany if she returned from the USA.

After Joseph Goebbels visited her with Gustav Fröhlich , she became the lover of the Reich Propaganda Leader. The relationship was also discussed publicly. Goebbels was ready to get a divorce because of Baarová. Only at the instigation of Magda Goebbels did a word of power from Hitler end the relationship. The documentary of the Czech television CT1, 2013, tells a different version. Lída Baarová says in an interview that she didn't like Goebbels, but she couldn't find a way out for herself. She claims to have been afraid of Goebbels from the day on which Goebbels visited her then partner Fröhlich and "held a discussion" with him. This is credible, since a man like Goebbels would have sanctioned an initiative on the part of his “lover” to reject or dissolve the relationship. There are love letters in which Goebbels writes to Baarová that he has discovered an island in the Pacific, on which he and she would live like Adam and Eve. That's why she later visited Hitler and asked for intervention. Hitler then reprimanded Goebbels. As justification it, served it at the time of connection of the Sudetenland to the German Reich was highly inappropriate that his propaganda minister maintained a love affair with a Czech woman; Goebbels' family was presented in the media as a National Socialist model family. As a result of Hitler's interference in this relationship, Baarová was banned from gambling in 1938 by Count Helldorff , the Berlin police chief , and was not allowed to leave the German Reich. The result was that Baarová received no more engagements in Germany. Her film Preußische Liebesgeschichte (with Willy Fritsch ), made in 1938, was banned from showing and was only shown in West Germany in 1950 under the title Liebeslegende . Until her death, however, Lída Baarová always spoke of the fact that her relationship with Goebbels was purely platonic and described the love affair that was said to be a lie. In an interview for a program on ZDF-History , she spoke about her relationship with Goebbels and the consequences for her.

In 1939 Baarová went back to her hometown Prague. She lived with her parents and her sister Zorka Janů, who was also a talented actress, in a villa that Baarová had built in 1937 for her and her parents in the Hanspaulka villa district by the architect Ladislav Žák . Baarová was able to play again in Prague, and by the end of 1941 she had made probably the most successful films of her career. However, Baarová caught the 1938 game ban in Prague at the end of 1941. In 1942 she went to Italy and made five films there. In 1943 Baarová had to return to Prague. In 1945 she was arrested in Czechoslovakia on suspicion of collaboration and after 18 months she was released and rehabilitated. Her relationship with Goebbels took place before the "endangerment of Czechoslovakia by the German Reich" and she did not collaborate with German authorities later either. During the course of the trial, it was found that she had neither denounced nor reported people. Her mother died of a heart attack during interrogation . Her sister Zorka Janů committed in March 1946 suicide after a sister of a suspected collaborator had been Hitler's Germany no involvement in Czechoslovakia. In 1947 Lída Baarová married one of the few people who had visited her during her imprisonment: the puppeteer Jan Kopecký, and emigrated with him via Austria to Argentina in 1948 , from where they returned to Austria. In 1956 she divorced her husband and played theater in Austria and Germany. Among other things, she appeared in Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen at the Burgfestspiele in Jagsthausen .

In 1969 she married the Austrian professor Kurt Lundwall in Salzburg; the marriage lasted until his death in 1972. Lída Baarová spent the rest of her life in Salzburg. She never gave up her Czechoslovak citizenship.

Her life story was filmed in 2015 by the Czech director Filip Renč in the movie The Devil's Beloved , with Tatiana Pauhofová as Lída Baarová and Karl Markovics as Joseph Goebbels.

Films (selection)

  • 1931: The career of Paul Camrda (Kariéra Pavla Camrdy)
  • 1934: A man who has to tear himself apart (Pán na roztrhání)
  • 1934: The Temptation of Mrs. Antonie (Pokušení paní Antonie)
  • 1934: Grandhotel Nevada
  • 1935: Barcarole
  • 1935: The devil guy
  • 1935: One too many on board
  • 1936: The hour of temptation
  • 1936: traitor
  • 1936: The Comedian Princess (Komediantská princezna)
  • 1936: The Little Seamstress (Svadlenka)
  • 1937: People on the ice floe (Lidé na kře)
  • 1937: Virginity (Panenství)
  • 1937: patriots
  • 1937: The bat
  • 1938: The player
  • 1938: Prussian love story
  • 1939: The Girl in Blue (Dívka v modrém)
  • 1939: The fiery summer (Ohnivé léto)
  • 1940: When the nights are silent (Za tichých nocí)
  • 1943: Grazia
  • 1943: Ti conosco, mascherina!
  • 1944: Turbína
  • 1944: La fornarina
  • 1944: Il has prete
  • 1945: L'ippocampo
  • 1945: Vivere ancora
  • 1946: La sua strada
  • 1950: La bisarca
  • 1951: Gli amanti di Ravello
  • 1951: La vendetta di una pazza
  • 1953: Gli innocenti pagano
  • 1953: The Idlers (I vitelloni)
  • 1954: Pietà per chi cade
  • 1956: Miedo
  • 1956: Todos somos necesarios
  • 1956: La mestiza
  • 1956: Viaje de novios
  • 1957: Bloody Rhapsody (Rapsodia de sangre)
  • 1957: The bare life (El batallón de las sombras)
  • 1958: Heaven in Flames (Il cielo brucia)

Autobiography

German edition:

  • Lída Baarová: The sweet bitterness of my life. Memoirs of the Ufa star and Goebbels' lover. Edited and revised by Richard Kettermann and Uwe Schmidt. Translated from the Czech by Peter Mráz. Kettermann and Schmidt, Koblenz 2000, ISBN 978-3-934639-00-3 .

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 424 f.
  • 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. 622 ff.
  • Stanislav Motl: Lída Baarová, Joseph Goebbels. The cursed love of a Czech actress and the deputy of the devil. Prague 2009, ISBN 978-80-7281-387-2 .

Web links

Commons : Lída Baarová  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hitler's helpers - Joseph Goebbels - Der Brandstifter on YouTube . In: Hitler's helpers. The arsonist - Joseph Goebbels. In: ZDF . October 30, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014
  2. ↑ October 27, 2000 - Lida Baarova dies - Contemporary history archive. In: www1.wdr.de. October 27, 2000, accessed January 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Moritz Pirol: Halalí 1. BoD - Books on Demand, 2009, ISBN 978-3-938647-17-2 , p. 258 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ Wolf Oschlies : Baarová, Lida (1914–2000). Nazi film star and Goebbels' Czech lover. In: The future needs memories. January 10, 2007
  5. ^ Drsný trailer k filmu Lída Baarová
personal data
SURNAME Baarová, Lída
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Babková, Ludmila (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech actress and lover of Joseph Goebbels
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2000
Place of death Salzburg