Lilli Lohrer

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Lilli Lohrer (born July 21, 1894 in Poland , † March 13, 1968 in Los Angeles , California , USA), later: Lilli / Lily Lohrer-Bry , was a German actress .

Life

As a young woman, Lilli Lohrer took part in a dozen silent films that were made between 1914 and 1924. Among them was the early Fritz Lang film Fighting Hearts , which was also awarded under the title Die Vier um die Frau .

Her first marriage was to the Viennese theater actor Richard Duschinsky . After the divorce, she became the wife of Curt Bry , who had worked as a writer and pianist in the Berlin cabaret Ping-Pong and later in Werner Finck's "Katakombe". He wrote many chansons for her.

When the National Socialists came to power in Germany in 1933 , she and Bry, of Jewish descent, left Berlin and went to Austria . From November 1931 to March 1938 she worked for the Viennese cabaret Der liebe Augustin , founded by the actress Stella Kadmon , the author Peter Hammerschlag , the draftsman Alex Szekely and the musician Fritz Spielmann , in the cellar of the Café Prückl.

After the " Anschluss of Austria ", she and Bry fled at the end of 1938, first to Italy and then to the Netherlands , where Bry was able to continue performing as a cabaret artist . On November 11, 1939, they emigrated to the United States .

In March 1940, Bry moved to Los Angeles , where he was once again successful as a cabaret artist with a revue penned by Friedrich Hollaender . Songs by Curt Bry were re-released on the CD “Five Minutes of World History - Cabaret Chansons by and with Curt Bry” on, with an accompanying text by Alan Lareau, released July 3, 2006. But after that he couldn't find any work in the entertainment business and had to himself and his Woman keeping afloat with an office job.

Lilli, now Lily Lohrer-Bry, died in Los Angeles in 1968 at the age of 73. She was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. Her husband died in 1974.

Filmography

  • 1914 Lepain, the King of the Innocents [role: Turpil, Lepain's lover]
  • 1915 Cinderella, also: His child from his first marriage [role: Clarissa von Wartburg]
  • 1918 Women's Honor (short film)
  • 1919 The Ehrenreichs
  • 1919/20 Manolescu's memoirs, also: Prince Laho [va] ry; The King of Thieves [role: Leonie, porter's daughter]
  • 1920 Lepain, Part 4 [role: Lepain's mistress]
  • 1920 The 999th Night [Role: Dunyazadh]
  • 1920 El Verdugo / The executioner
  • 1921 Fighting hearts , also: The four for the woman [role: servant of Florence]
  • 1921/22 The castaways
  • 1922 The big lie
  • 1924 When men are silent [role: Beatrix von Felsen]

literature

  • Herbert Arlt, Konstantin Kaiser, Gerhard Scheit, Theodor Kramer Society (ed.): The world of the Jura Soyfer (= intermediate worlds . Volume 2). Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1991, ISBN 978-3-85115-148-0 , p. 108.
  • Wolfgang Benz: German Jews in the 20th Century. A story in portraits. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62292-2 , 98-107.
  • Cooperative of German Stage Members (Ed.): German Stage Yearbook. Günther & Sohn, 1927, p. 155.
  • Ursula Hardt: From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books, Oxford / New York 1996, p. 223.
  • Peter Jelavich: Berlin Cabaret. Studies in Cultural History. Harvard University Press, 2009.
  • Jürgen Kasten, Armin Loacker: Richard Oswald - cinema between spectacle, education and entertainment. Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-901932-68-7 , p. 550.
  • Barry Keith Grant (Ed.): Fritz Lang: Interviews. Conversations with filmmakers Series. Illustrated edition. University Press of Mississippi, 2003, ISBN 978-1-57806-577-6 . P. Xxvi.
  • Frank-Manuel Peter : Valeska Gert: dancer, actress, cabaret artist. A documentary biography. Hentrich, Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-926175-31-1 , p. 68.
  • Ingeborg Reisner: Cabaret as a theater workshop: literary cabaret in Vienna before the Second World War. Verlag der Theodor-Kramer-Gesellschaft, Vienna 1961, ISBN 978-3-901602-15-3 , p. 323.
  • Tony Scott: The Stars of Hollywood Forever. Lulu.com, ISBN 978-1-312-91697-5 (English).

Web links

Illustrations

  • Photo by Lilli Lohrer around 1919
  • Photo by Lilli Lohrer
  • Photo by Lilli Lohrer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so in Scott p. 12; none of the sources give a place of birth
  2. ↑ cf. Cinema poster
  3. ↑ cf. Benz pp. 100-101
  4. ↑ z. B. The Song of the Sphinx , The Misunderstood Poet or A Lady Slightly In The Dark , cf. fenn-music.de
  5. ↑ cf. Overview of Austrian Cabaret 1926–1945, communications from the Institute for Science and Art IWK 1/2 1985, p. 3
  6. ↑ cf. Jelavich p. 259
  7. ↑ a b Lily Lohrer-Bry in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 1, 2017 (English).
  8. ^ Bear Family Records
  9. ↑ the sources call the activity accountant, which could perhaps be translated as 'accountant'
  10. ↑ GECD # 27381
  11. ↑ GECD # 17929
  12. ↑ GECD # 20926
  13. ↑ with Conrad Veidt and Erna Morena , cf. GECD # 42980
  14. ↑ GECD # 28261
  15. ↑ GECD # 30719
  16. ↑ based on a novella by Balzac, according to Film-Kurier a drama, "which, in its theatrically effective plot, strongly meets the needs of the large cinema audience ..."
  17. ↑ a still photo from the film with Lilli Lohrer as a servant with apron and bonnet at fandor.com
personal data
SURNAME Lohrer, Lilli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lohrer-Bry, Lilli; Lohrer-Bry, Lily
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, musician, cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Poland
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1968
Place of death los Angeles