Leonie Taliansky

Harry Walden , Leonie Taliansky, role model, double portrait, knee, in: Wilhelm Meyer-Förster: Alt-Heidelberg

Leonie Taliansky , nee Leonie Olga Pollak , also Leonie Toliansky , ( April 14, 1875 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary - after 1922) was an Austrian theater and silent film actress .

Life

Leonie Taliansky ( Slovak : Italian ) was born in Vienna as the daughter of the doctor Sigmund Pollak (November 7, 1846 - April 5, 1912) and Rosina Pollak, nee Taliansky (around 1854 - November 3, 1877). She had a brother (Dr. Oskar Theodor Pollak), a sister (Rosina Diez) and a half-sister (Dora Pollak). Originally of Jewish faith, she converted to Christianity.

She wanted to be a singer first, so she took singing lessons, but then turned to acting and trained in the acting class at the Vienna Conservatory. She had her first theater appearances in Innsbruck , Reichenberg and Elberfeld . There she played Mirza in The Dream of a Life by Franz Grillparzer , Gretchen in Faust and Countess Guckerl by Franz Koppel-Ellfeld and Franz von Schönthan . In the New Theater Berlin she specialized in backfisch roles and played Vicky in the comedy Hofgunst by Thilo von Trotha in over 160 performances .

On February 25, 1898, she made her debut as “Lulu” in Wedekind's Der Erdgeist at the world premiere in the Krystallpalast in Leipzig . On April 11, 1898, she played in the play Hedda Gabler at the Carl-Schultze-Theater in St. Pauli . In Hamburg she also appeared in the role of Lulu at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus . In 1899 she played “Lulu” for the first time in Berlin. In 1900 she played "Natalie" in Prince von Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist in Berlin . She also had a role in the comedy Die Two Leonoren by Paul Lindau , where she was noticed "with her spirit and real temperament". In 1901 she appeared alongside Harry Walden in Wilhelm Meyer-Förster's play Alt-Heidelberg . The first performance of this piece took place on November 22, 1901 in the Berlin theater . She was also planned as “Lulu” in the sequel Die Büchse der Pandora , but fell ill shortly before the premiere on May 29, 1905. From 1903 to 1910 she played at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden.

Filmography

1922: The burning field

literature

Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, pp. 1025 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Leonie Taliansky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Leonie Taliansky at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

↑ Anna L. Staudacher: "... announces the departure from the Mosaic faith". 18,000 exits from Judaism in Vienna, 1868–1914: names - sources - dates. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-55832-4 , p. 719 .
^ Anatol Regnier: Frank Wedekind. A tragedy for men. Knaus, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8135-0255-8 .
^ Paul Möhring : The other St. Pauli. Cultural history of the Reeperbahn. Matari Verlag, Hamburg 1965, p. 107 .
^ Günter Seehaus: Frank Wedekind and the theater (= Die Neue Schaubühne. Vol. 2, ZDB -ID 530317-5 ). Laokoon-Verlag, Munich 1964, p. 288 .
^ Karl Kraus, Frank Wedekind: Correspondence. 1903 to 1917 (= Wedekind readings. Vol. 5). With an introduction, edited and commented by Mirko Nottscheid. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3701-6 .
↑ Elke Hack: finding aid STAATSTHEATER WIESBADEN; Files and publications 1810–1996, (= REPERTORIEN DES HESSISCHEN HAUPTSTAATSARCHIVS) inventory 428 (PDF; 1.22 MB), p. 144. In: Archivinformationssystem Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).

personal data
SURNAME	Taliansky, Leonie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pollak, Leonie Olga (maiden name); Toliansky, Leonie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian theater and silent film actress
DATE OF BIRTH	April 14, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	after 1922

[1] Anna L. Staudacher: "... announces the departure from the Mosaic faith". 18,000 exits from Judaism in Vienna, 1868–1914: names - sources - dates. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-55832-4 , p. 719 .

[2] Anatol Regnier: Frank Wedekind. A tragedy for men. Knaus, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8135-0255-8 .

[3] Paul Möhring : The other St. Pauli. Cultural history of the Reeperbahn. Matari Verlag, Hamburg 1965, p. 107 .

[4] Günter Seehaus: Frank Wedekind and the theater (= Die Neue Schaubühne. Vol. 2, ZDB -ID 530317-5 ). Laokoon-Verlag, Munich 1964, p. 288 .

[5] Karl Kraus, Frank Wedekind: Correspondence. 1903 to 1917 (= Wedekind readings. Vol. 5). With an introduction, edited and commented by Mirko Nottscheid. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3701-6 .

[6] Elke Hack: finding aid STAATSTHEATER WIESBADEN; Files and publications 1810–1996, (= REPERTORIEN DES HESSISCHEN HAUPTSTAATSARCHIVS) inventory 428 (PDF; 1.22 MB), p. 144. In: Archivinformationssystem Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).