Lili Marberg

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Adolf Heller : Portrait of the court actress Lili Marberg (1907)
Franz Xaver Setzer : Lili Marberg (no year)
Leopold Schmutzler : Lili Marberg as Salome (around 1905). Jack Daulton Collection, USA.
Franz Grainer : Lili Marberg (1905)

Lili Marberg (born December 9, 1876 in Grimma ; died April 8, 1962 in Vienna ) was a German and Austrian actress.

Life

Lili Marberg attended the conservatory in Dresden for a short time , but then went to the theater in Zwickau as a dilettante to become an actress. From 1898 to 1900 she was engaged at the theater in Elberfeld-Barmen . After a season at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg , she moved to the Munich Schauspielhaus and from 1903 caused a sensation in Oscar Wilde's play Salome , which remained on the program for several years. In 1907 she was brought to the German Volkstheater in Vienna as the successor to Helene Odilon . In 1911 she moved to the Burgtheater in Vienna , to which she belonged until 1950. On October 14, 1911, she had the female lead in the world premiere of Arthur Schnitzler's Das weite Land at the castle . In the world premiere of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion , which was first performed in German on October 16, 1913, she played with Max Paulsen in the leading roles. She played in the new pieces by Frank Wedekind , Gerhart Hauptmann and Henrik Ibsen . In old age she switched to the character subject . In 1937 she played in the world premiere of Rudolf Henz 's Kaiser Joseph II.

She became an honorary member of the Burgtheater, received the title of chamber actress and was appointed professor.

Marberg was the second wife of the interior designer Karl Hans Jaray (1872–1944). The actor Hans Jaray was her stepson; as a Jew, after the annexation of Austria , he had to flee the German Reich for racial reasons.

Marberg is buried in the Grinzing cemetery .

Autobiography

  • It was so weird . European publisher, Vienna 1937.

literature

  • Entry about Lili Marberg in the Austria-Forum  (biography)
  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Lili Marberg . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 640–641 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Richard Bamberger ; Franz Maier-Bruck : Austria Lexicon in two volumes . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1966 (not viewed)
  • György Sebestyén : Burgtheater Gallery. 148 artist portraits from the “gallery of honor” of the Vienna Burgtheater based on photos by Csaba Tarcsay . With a historical-biographical documentation by Konrad Schrögendorfer. Vienna: Edition Tusch 1976, p. 154 (not viewed)
  • Karl Döhler; Wolfram Günther: From the Zwickau youth years of the unforgettable Viennese castle actress . In: Pulsschlag: from the history and nature of our homeland. Cultural office. Vol. 7, Zwickau 1963, pp. 23–26 (not viewed)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Voswinckel: History of the Daughter of Sin , near Bavaria 2 , February 23, 2013
  2. ↑ Lilli Marberg in the world premiere of "Kaiser Josef II." By Dr. Rudolf Henz, Burgtheater 6.4.1937 ( Memento of the original from November 24, 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. , at KHM @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bilddatenbank.khm.at
personal data
SURNAME Marberg, Lili
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German and Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Grimma
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1962
Place of death Vienna