Lilian Harvey

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Lilian Harvey, photograph (around 1928) by Alexander Binder

Lilian Harvey , born Lilian Helen Muriel Pape (born January 19, 1906 in London , † July 27, 1968 in Juan-les-Pins , France ), was a British-German actress , singer and dancer . She became a popular star in Germany in the 1930s through music films such as Die Drei von der Gasstelle and Der Kongress tanzt .

Life

Early life and beginnings

Lilian Harvey came to London in 1906 as the daughter of Ethel Pape, born in England. Laughton, who at that time was married to the German businessman Walter Bruno Pape from Magdeburg . However, due to a longer stay abroad, Walter Pape should not be considered her biological father. While at school in London , Pape took ballet lessons without her mother's knowledge . During the First World War , the Pape family was currently in Magdeburg, so they could not and did not want to return to England. The girl Lilian was housed with her aunt in Solothurn, Switzerland . In 1923 she graduated from high school in Berlin , where the family had meanwhile settled. Then she broke away from the home environment. She attended the ballet school of the German State Opera and received her first paid appearances as a dancer in Hungary and Austria . At that time, Lilian Pape took the maiden name of her grandmother Harvey as a stage name .

Lilian Harvey, photograph (around 1925) by Alexander Binder
Berlin memorial plaque on the house at Düsseldorfer Strasse 47 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . The composer Leon Jessel also lived there until 1925 .

From then on, my career took off. In February 1924 she got her first small role in Robert Land's Der Fluch , where she played the young Jew Ruth. She acted in several silent films and got the lead role as a partner of Otto Fee in the film Passion as early as 1925 . With Willy Fritsch , with whom she later made eleven other films, she stood in front of the film camera for the first time in the 1926 operetta adaptation of Die chaste Susanne . In 1929, the film Your dark point was shown in the Berlin Gloria Palast , in which Lilian Harvey was also seen together with Willy Fritsch.

Career as a movie star

The decisive breakthrough came in 1930 when she became the dream couple in German film in the romantic comedy film Liebeswalzer with Fritsch. Lilian Harvey herself became the cutest girl in the world , as the press wrote. In 1931 the film Der Kongress tanzt was released , in which she sings Christel's song in one scene , better known as There's Only One Time , which has remained an evergreen to this day. The subsequent films were also dubbed in England and France, and some of them were even shot in several languages ​​with different partners, as was not unusual at the time, and this is how Lilian Harvey became known abroad. She was invited to Hollywood and made four not very successful films there. Harvey bought the Villa Asmodée in Juan-les-Pins on the Côte d'Azur in 1931 .

In 1935 Harvey returned to National Socialist Germany. She made several successful films, including some with her boyfriend, director Paul Martin . After it became known that she would continue to receive Jewish colleagues in her house, she was watched by the Gestapo and was subsequently considered unreliable. In 1939 Harvey finally left Germany and emigrated to Juan-les-Pins . There she shot her last film Miquette in 1940 . After the occupation of southern France, she returned to Hollywood in 1942. She had previously appeared in front of French soldiers and in Switzerland in programs to strengthen war morale. In 1943 the Nazi regime revoked Harvey's German citizenship .

Next life

Lillian Harvey (1963)

After the war, Harvey returned to Paris in 1946 . In the following years she went on vocal tours through Scandinavia and Egypt . She was also greeted with joy in Germany, where she returned in 1949 and where she accepted theater roles. Her theatrical debut in Germany did not take place until the end of 1961 at the side of Heinz Plate at the Heidelberger Zimmertheater . However, due to a lung disease, she had to accept a longer stay in a sanatorium in Switzerland. In 1953 she married the Danish theater agent Hartvig Valeur-Larsen; but in 1955 Harvey filed for divorce. In 1955/1956 she met Else Wirth on a tour of the GDR , who from then on became her partner and colleague. The divorce from Valeur-Larsen took place in 1957. Harvey received compensation in the form of a pension from the federal government for the assets confiscated during the National Socialist era.

Lilian Harvey, who seemed depressed and mentally fragile all her life, died in 1968 in her own hotel in Juan-les-Pins, withdrawn from jaundice . Their final resting place is on the Cimetière de Rabiac in neighboring Antibes .

Her written estate is in the archive of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.

Prizes and awards

Filmography

Discography

  • 1930: Dear, my heart sends greetings to you (Werner Richard Heymann / Robert Gilbert) ad sound film "The three from the gas station", with Willy Fritsch and orchestra, Odeon No. O 2993 a
  • 1930: Die Zwei von der Zankstelle - Potpourri (edited by Peter Kreuder), with Willy Fritsch and the Odeon artist orchestra, conductor: Peter Kreuder, Odeon No. O 11557
  • 1930: Child, your mouth is music . With Willy Fritsch. Engl. Waltz ad Ufa sound film "Burglar" (Friedr. Hollaender). Text Rob. Leibmann u. Friedr. Dutch. Odeon No. O 11361. B-side: A love affair, by the way (with Willy Fritsch, id.).
  • 1931: Christels Lied (That’s only once, that’s not coming back ”) , (Werner Richard Heymann / Robert Gilbert), from the Ufa sound film“ Der Kongress tanzt ”, with orchestra, Parlophone No. B 48067-1 and also Odeon 11524; back: Heurigen song: That must be a piece of heaven (Willy Fritsch).
  • 1931: That only happens once, that won't come back (Just Once For All Time) , (Werner Richard Heymann / Robert Gilbert), from the Ufa sound film “The Congress Dances”, with orchestra, Columbia No. J 1742 (England)
  • 1931: You secretly brought love into my house (Werner R. Heymann / Robert Gilbert) from the Ufaton film operetta Her Highness commands , with Willy Fritsch and orchestra under the direction of Kapellmeister Otto Dobrindt, Parlophone No. B. 12435 II
  • 1932: Somewhere in the world (Werner Richard Heymann / Robert Gilbert), with the Ufa Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Gérard Jacobson, Columbia No. J 1742
  • 1932: We no longer pay rent (Richard Heymann / Robert Gilbert) from the sound film “Ein blonder Traum”, with Willy Fritsch and orchestra, Odeon No. O-11684, Parlophone No. B 47247 I
  • 1932: You would be something for me (music: Jean Gilbert / Robert Gilbert) from the sound film “Two hearts and one beat”, with Willy Fritsch and orchestra, conductor: Otto Dobrindt, Parlophone B 48136 I
  • 1932: Baby does that . Foxtrot ad Ufaton film of the Guenther Stapenhorst production "Two hearts and one beat", with orchestral accompaniment. Music Jean Gilbert, lyrics Rob. Gilbert. Odeon No. O 11587. B-side: Chanson of the brisk Liese , id.
  • 1936: I wish I was a chicken (Peter Kreuder / Hans Fritz Beckmann) from the Ufa film “Glückskinder”, with Willy Fritsch and the Odeon dance orchestra, Odeon No. O 25802 b
  • 1937: I dance with you into heaven (Friedrich Schröder / Hans Fritz Beckmann) ad Ufa sound film "Seven Slaps", with Willy Fritsch and the Parlophone Dance Orchestra, conductor: Friedrich Schröder, Parlophone No. B 49967-II
  • 1937: Chinamann (Friedrich Schröder / Hans Fritz Beckmann) from the sound film: "Sieben Ohrfeigen", with Willy Fritsch and the Odeon dance orchestra, Odeon No. O-25903

literature

  • Hans Borgelt: The cutest girl in the world. The Lilian Harvey story. Unabridged paperback edition. Heyne, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-453-00626-7 .
  • Christiane Habich: Lilian Harvey. Haude and Spener, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7759-0295-3 .
  • Uwe Klöckner-Draga: "Throw it away so you don't lose ...". Lilian Harvey - biography of a film star. edition q, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86124-500-0 .
  • 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. 632 ff.

Web links

Commons : Lilian Harvey  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christiane Habich: Lilian Harvey , Berlin 1990, p. 9
  2. ^ Foundation German Historical Museum: Just seen on LeMO: LeMO biography. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  3. ^ Christiane Habich: Lilian Harvey , Berlin 1990, p. 11.
  4. ^ Vossische Zeitung (morning edition), January 19, 1929.
  5. ↑ welt.de: The sweetest girl in a better world Article from August 28, 2001.
  6. ↑ Harvey, Lillian. In: www.exilarchiv.de. Retrieved January 1, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Members (Ed.), Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 2007 , Verlag Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft mbH, Hamburg, 2007, p. 864 ISSN  0070-4431
  8. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Lilian Harvey
  9. ↑ Lilian Harvey Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Harvey, Lilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pape, Lilian Helen Muriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-German actress, singer and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1968
Place of death Juan-les-Pins , France