Lilli Palmer

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Lilli Palmer in 1982 in conversation with Helmut Schmidt

Lilli Palmer , b. Lilli Marie Peiser (born May 24, 1914 in Posen ; † January 27, 1986 in Los Angeles ) was a German- British - Swiss actress , author and painter of German origin.

Life

Family and youth

Berlin memorial plaque on the residential building Hölderlinstrasse 11

Lilli Palmer was born as Lilli Marie Peiser in the then Prussian provincial capital of Poznan. Her parents were Alfred Peiser and Rose Lissmann. The father was the chief physician in the Jewish hospital in Berlin (surgeon), the mother was a theater actress and gave up her job after the engagement. Lilli had an older sister, the actress and singer Irene Prador (1911-1996), and a younger sister, Hilde Ross (1919-2008), who was a dancer. When Lilli Palmer was four years old, the family moved to Berlin-Westend . There is now a memorial plaque on the house where she lived at the time.

Against her father's wishes, Palmer tried to become an actress even as a student. She went to high school in the morning ( Wald-Oberschule in Waldschulallee) and in the afternoon to drama school - she passed both. She had acting lessons with Ilka Grüning and Lucie Höflich in Berlin .

Sports

In her youth, Lilli Palmer was considered a table tennis talent . She was nominated for the 1930 World Cup in Berlin, where she - under her maiden name Lilli Marie Peiser - lost in the round of 16 of the individual against the future world champion Mária Mednyánszky . After that she was ranked 9th in the German ranking list by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB . Peiser often played mixed with Heinz Nickelsburg .

Career

Stage career

Her first appearances were at the Rose Theater in Grosse Frankfurter Strasse, today's Karl-Marx-Allee , near Koppenstrasse. In 1932 she began at the Hessisches Landestheater Darmstadt . Almost a year later, after the National Socialists came to power in 1933, she lost her job due to her Jewish religious affiliation and had to emigrate that same year. Palmer went to Paris and performed with her sister Irene under the stage name Les Sœurs Viennoises in various night clubs to earn a living.

International film career

For a short time she went to London , where she took on the female lead in the film Crime Unlimited and thus received her first contract with an English production company. In 1936 she played a supporting role in the film Secret Agent directed by Alfred Hitchcock .

With a Hollywood contract in his pocket Palmer went in November 1945 in the United States and played there among other things besides Gary Cooper in Fritz Lang 's Secret Service and with John Garfield in hunt for million of Robert Rossen .

Toni Frissell : Lilli Palmer with her husband Rex Harrison (1950)

The scandal surrounding her husband Rex Harrison's affair with actress Carole Landis , who committed suicide, initially ended the Harrison / Palmer couple's Hollywood career. However, both appeared successfully on Broadway , including together in the comedy Bell, Book and Candle (German: Beloved Witch ) by John Van Druten .

In 1954 Lilli Palmer returned to Germany and became a star of post-war cinema. She played alongside Curd Jürgens and Romy Schneider , among others . She also filmed in France, Great Britain and the United States with well-known actors such as Clark Gable , James Mason , Jean Gabin and Charles Boyer . She has received numerous awards for her work as an actress, including the Golden Lion of Venice and the Gold Film Ribbon .

In Germany she also appeared in television films and series, such as Der Kommissar ( Grau-Roter Morgen , 1971) and Derrick ( Johanna , 1974). In ten episodes of the family series A Woman Remains a Woman , she appeared alongside Klaus Schwarzkopf in the course of the 1970s . She also wrote some stories for this series under the name of her late grandfather.

Book author

In 1974 her memoir Dicke Lilli was published , which became an international bestseller. The 1979 book The Red Raven is an extension of this autobiography and depicts a love triangle between Palmer, her significant other and her best friend. Other books are Hugging Has His Time (1981), Night Music (1984), A Woman Remains a Woman (1985) and When the Night Bird Screams (published posthumously 1988).

In addition to her writing activities, Lilli Palmer was also a successful painter.

Private life

In 1943 she married the British theater actor and later film star Rex Harrison . In 1944 their son Rex Carey Alfred Harrison was born, who now teaches at Brooklyn University and works as a novelist and playwright. In 1956, Palmer and Harrison divorced.

On September 21, 1957, Lilli Palmer married the Argentine writer and actor Carlos Thompson . In 1960 she moved to Goldingen in Switzerland and lived until shortly before her death in 1986 in the Villa La Loma ( location ) high above the village (largely demolished and rebuilt in 1997). In 1979, Palmer received Swiss citizenship .

Lilli Palmer died of cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 71 and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale , California .

Honorable memory

Since 1988, young up-and-coming actresses such as Barbara Auer (1988), Christiane Paul (1998), Anneke Kim Sarnau (2003) or Jasmin Schwiers (2005) have been awarded the Golden Camera by the television magazine Hörzu with the Lilli Palmer memory camera for excellent acting award. In 2003, the Curd-Jürgens memory camera was also awarded for the best young male actor. In 2004 the two awards for the Lilli Palmer & Curd Jürgens memory camera were merged. This prize is currently endowed with 20,000 euros.

Berlin put up a memorial plaque at Hölderlinstrasse 11 in Berlin-Westend, on the house where she spent her youth . In 1997 the “Lilli-Palmer-Promenade” at Krienicke-Park was named in Berlin-Haselhorst . In 2000, Deutsche Post issued a Lilli Palmer postage stamp. In Munich there has been a Lilli-Palmer-Straße at Arnulfpark for several years .

Filmography

movie theater

Television (selection)

  • 1971: The Commissioner: Gray-red morning
  • 1972–1979: A woman remains a woman (10 episodes)
  • 1974: The Zoo Gang (TV movie)
  • 1974: Derrick (TV series), 2nd episode: Johanna
  • 1980: Weekend (TV movie)
  • 1981: Children (TV movie)
  • 1982: A Somewhat Strange Lady (TV movie)
  • 1982: Incredible Friends (TV Movie)
  • 1984: Love Boat (TV series)
  • 1986: Peter the Great (TV series)

Radio plays

  • 1979: Sleeping Beauty. Narrator, Walt Disney film classic (LP)
  • 1979: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Narrator, Walt Disney film classic (LP)

Awards

Fonts

literature

Web links

Commons : Lilli Palmer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German National Library; Personal data, citizenship , accessed on May 22, 2014
  2. ↑ Lilli's family. In: Lilli Palmer's jimdo page. 2011, accessed October 22, 2012 .
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 2001/4 page 9., Things worth knowing, curiosities and records in table tennis ( Memento from September 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on tischtennis.tuwa-abteilungen.de or entry in the ITTF database
  4. ^ Carey Harrison. Brooklyn College Faculty. Brooklyn College, accessed April 21, 2014 : “Carey Harrison. Professor English. "
  5. ↑ The bird has good singing . In: Spiegel Online . tape 34 , August 15, 1977 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 9, 2019]).
  6. ^ Michael Wenk: Prussian citizen of the world | NZZ . May 22, 2014, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on September 9, 2019]).
  7. ↑ The grave of Lilli Palmer on knerger.de
  8. ↑ Lilli Palmer. In: Official Website Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, accessed April 21, 2014 : “Inducted to the Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960 with 1 star. [...] Address: 7013 Hollywood Blvd. "
personal data
SURNAME Palmer, Lilli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peiser, Lilli Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British-Swiss actress, author and painter of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Poznan , Province of Poznan, Prussia
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1986
Place of death Los Angeles , California, United States