Lilly Ackermann

Lilly Ackermann (born Willy Marie Schorer ; born September 27, 1891 in Paris ; † February 5, 1976 ) was a German actress and acting teacher.

Life

Willy Marie Schorer, called "Lilly", was the illegitimate daughter of the painter Marie Schorer , who was known by her stage name Maria Slavona , from her relationship with the Danish painter Vilhelm Petersen , who later called himself Willy Gretor and as a model for Frank Wedekind's Marquis served by Keith . Wedekind's drama Erdgeist , "Lulu's first part", is also dedicated to him. After her mother married the Swiss art dealer Otto Ackermann in 1900 , Lilly was adopted by him and took his name.

Lilly Ackermann grew up in Paris, Lübeck and Berlin . She became an actress and worked mainly in Berlin theaters, for example in 1919/20 on the tribune , where she played alongside Fritz Kortner in Ernst Toller's Die Wandlung . Occasionally she also translated for the stage and worked as a journalist. Later she was an acting teacher. She directed Ernestine Münchheim's drama school (~ 1874–1934), the Ernestine Münchheim Studio Berlin . After her death, Ackermann ran her own drama school, the training institute for young German actors, first in Charlottenburg on Meinekestrasse, then from 1937 on in Wilmersdorf on Xantener Strasse.

After the Second World War Ackermann taught as a professor of acting at the Academy of Music in Stuttgart .

Her students in Berlin included Gisela Uhlen , Siegmar Schneider , Kristina Söderbaum , Ellinor Hamsun , Erik von Loewis , Hanna Burgwitz , Gundel Thormann , Hannjo Hasse , Brigitte Keppler , Heinz Spitzner and Joachim Wedekind ; in Stuttgart among others Günter Strack , Dietz-Werner Steck , Tom Witkowski , Hannelore Cremer and Christiane Rücker .

Honors

1968: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications

Willy Grétor, the archetype of the "Marquis of Keith" . In: Uhu , Volume 3, Number 6 (March 1927), pp. 55-59.

as a translator:

Joséphine Baker (with Marcel Sauvage): The black star of Europe. Memoirs . With drawings by Paul Colin . Meyer & Jessen, Munich 1927. (Later published as a paperback edition: I do what suits me. From the Mississippi to the Folies Bergère . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-596-22472-1 .)
Abel Hermant : Camilla's short hair. Comedy in 3 acts (7 images) . Arcadia Verlag, Berlin 1930.

Web links

Literature by and about Lilly Ackermann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Willy Gretor (1868-1923). His role in the international art business and art trade around 1900 . Ludwig, Kiel 2006, ISBN 3-937719-33-4 (= habilitation thesis, University of Kiel, 2003)
↑ http://www.berliner-schauspielschule.de/rollestudium.htm
↑ Part of a series of owls under the title Wedekinds models: The archetypes of his stage designs . In addition to Lilly Ackermann, Tilly Wedekind , Erich Mühsam and Artur Kutscher also provided biographical sketches.

personal data
SURNAME	Ackermann, Lilly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schorer, Willy Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actress and acting teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	5th February 1976

[wolff-thomsen2003-1] Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Willy Gretor (1868-1923). His role in the international art business and art trade around 1900 . Ludwig, Kiel 2006, ISBN 3-937719-33-4 (= habilitation thesis, University of Kiel, 2003)

[2] ttp://www.berliner-schauspielschule.de/rollestudium.htm

[3] Part of a series of owls under the title Wedekinds models: The archetypes of his stage designs . In addition to Lilly Ackermann, Tilly Wedekind , Erich Mühsam and Artur Kutscher also provided biographical sketches.