Lea Seidl

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Lea Seidl , bourgeois Caroline Mayrseidl , (born on August 22, 1895 in Vienna , Empire Austria-Hungary ; died on January 4, 1987 in London , United Kingdom ) was an Austrian operetta singer ( soprano ) and actress .

Life

Lea Seidl began her stage career in roles for children and young people (including as the boy Janku in the operetta Der Rastelbinder ) at the Vienna Carltheater . She worked in the twenties as an operetta singer, mainly in Zurich ( Boccaccio , Alt-Wien , Tausend und ein Nacht , The Merry Widow , The Last Waltz , The Chaste Susanne and others), Vienna (including the title role in the takeover of the Berlin production of Dorine and the coincidence of Jean Gilbert in March 1927) and Berlin ( The girl from Davos , the woman exchanged , a thousand sweet bees ).

In February 1923 she sang the role of Princess Stefanie in the world premiere of the operetta Der Fürst von Pappenheim by Hugo Hirsch at the Deutsches Künstlertheater Berlin . In 1924 Seidl sang the title role in the operetta Countess Mariza at the Theater an der Wien ; At that time her understudy was the largely unsuccessful and talented soprano Carlotta Vanconti , who met the famous tenor Richard Tauber during her appearances . In 1925 Seidl took over the role of Nadja in Bruno Granichstaeden's operetta Der Orlow at the Berlin Theater des Westens . From February 1929 she sang in the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna , as partner of Hans-Heinz Bollmann as Goethe, with great success the title role in the Lehár operetta Friederike .

At the end of the 1920s she also turned to the revue in Berlin and the revue operetta that was emerging at the time. In March 1928 she took part in the cabaret revue Nachtkabarett at the Lustspielhaus Berlin , a. a. next to the beginners Marlene Dietrich and Renate Müller . From August 1928 to February 1929 she performed in the Berlin Admiralspalast in the equipment revue Schön und Schick , where she had great success with the song "I am Marie von der Haller-Revue" .

After her success in Vienna and Berlin, Seidl went to London in the early thirties , where she played Friederike in English at the Palace Theater in the 1930/31 season. From April 1931 she was on stage as Rößl landlady Josepha Vogelhuber in the English-language premiere of White Rössl in the London Coliseum Theater . Seidl then stayed in London and continued to appear there, initially with great success, as an operetta actress. In the 1934/35 season she took on the role of Franzi in the Straus operetta Ein Walzertraum at the Winter Garden Theater . This was followed by the operetta Die tanzende Stadt by Hans May (1935; with Seidl as Maria Theresia ) and the less successful production No Sky So Bly by James, Grant and Horan (1938; as Adele) with Seidl in London . In the following years, Seidl turned to spoken theater and film.

In the early 1950s she returned to Germany for a theater guest performance; At the Deutsches Theater Göttingen she took on the role of Empress Maria Theresia in the operetta Die Kaiserin by Leo Fall in 1953, directed by Heinz Hilpert .

During her theater years, Seidl also took part in a few German film productions, such as the silent films Er ist Dein Bruder (1923) with Max Neumann and Karl Falkenberg and The Dancer of My Wife (1925) directed by Alexander Korda , in which she as Madame Ivonne Trieux appeared at the side of Victor Varconi , Maria Corda , Willy Fritsch and Hans Junkermann . She later took on supporting roles in British and international film productions.

In the US production War and Peace (1956) she played the role of Countess Rostova. In the biopic The Man Who Reached for the Stars (1960), as Baroness von Braun, she was the mother of rocket researcher Wernher von Braun ; in The Great Catherine (1968, with Jeanne Moreau in the leading role) she embodied the old Grand Duchess. In 1969, Seidl stood for an episode of the German television series Graf Yoster, filmed in London, doing the honor again in front of the television camera; The Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain reported on this in its newspaper in July 1969 .

Lea Seidl has worked as an actress and radio play speaker on a number of British radio and television programs. She took over u. a. also the speaking roles in recordings of Viennese operettas , which were made in the mid-1950s with the participation of numerous actors in exile ( Karel Štěpánek , Hannah Norbert , Anton Diffring ) in London for the EMI record company. In One Night in Venice (recorded 1954) she spoke to the senator's wife Agricola, lending her voice to Hanna Ludwig ; in The Gypsy Baron (also recorded in 1954) she took on the role of educator Mirabella.

Seidl died in January 1987 at the age of 91.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 856.
  2. a b c Kurt Gänzl : The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theater . Extended edition in 3 volumes. Schirmer Books 2001. Page 1829. ISBN 0-02-864970-2 .
  3. Comfort yourself, my dear child adOperette Der Fürst von Pappenheim . M: Hugo Hirsch T: Willi Kollo, Hugo Hirsch. V: Rondo first interpreters: Lea Seidl, Max Adalbert, Fritz Schulz. Hit Chronicle of the Twenties. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  4. Michael Jürgs : I was happy to kiss women. The Richard Tauber biography . List publishing house. Munich 2000. page 69f. ISBN 3-471-79429-8 .
  5. Ulrike Petersen: Operetta after the Habsburg Empire . Dissertation. University of California , Berkeley. 2013. Page 42 (with a photo from the Austrian Theater Museum). Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  6. a b Stefan Frey : “What do you think about this success?”. Franz Lehár and popular music in the 20th century. Insel Verlag Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 1999. Page 235, 250. ISBN 3-458-16960-1 .
  7. Ingrid and Herbert Haffner: Always smile. The Franz Lehár book. Parthas Verlag Berlin 1998. Page 137.
  8. Steven Bach : Marlene Dietrich. The legend. Life . Econ Verlag Düsseldorf Vienna. 1993. Since 633/634. ISBN 3-430-11111-0 .
  9. SCHÖN UND SCHICK ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2018 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. . Cast and production dates. In: Thomas Siedhoff: German (speaking) es musical. It's in the air: On developments in Germany . Retrieved May 19, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsches-musicalarchiv.de
  10. Karin Ploog: ... When the notes learned to run ... History and stories of popular music up to 1945 - first part . Books on Demand. Norderstedt 2015. Page 61. ISBN 978-3-7347-4508-9 .
  11. Richard C. Norton: The English Language Adventures of “In the White Horse Inn” . Operetta Research Center. September 2006. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  12. ^ A b Kurt Gänzl : The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theater . Extended edition in 3 volumes. Schirmer Books 2001. page 1829 . ISBN 0-02-864970-2 .
  13. JP Wearing: A Waltz Dream . In: The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2014. page 405. ISBN 978-0-8108-9303-0 .
  14. Fred Hamel: Musica . Volume 7, 1953. Page 242. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  15. Old Acquaintances ( Memento of the original from March 5, 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: AJR. Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain. Volume XXIV No. July 7, 1969. Page 5. Retrieved May 19, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ajr.org.uk
  16. One night in Venice . Cast and CD review. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  17. ^ Johann Strauss jr .: "THE GYPSY BARON" . Cast in the Tamino Klassikforum. Retrieved May 19, 2017.