Lilly Dillenz

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Elisabeth Leonore Dillenz , née Elisabeth Leonore Hollitzer ( September 6, 1896 in Vienna - March 19, 1964 in Hainburg an der Donau ) was an Austrian actress and aviation pioneer. In 1927 she was a passenger on a failed Atlantic crossing from east to west.

The flight under the command of Frederick Loose , started on October 4, 1927, was supposed to be the Atlantic crossing from mainland Europe to America , but the Junkers G 24 (D-1230) did not take off after a stopover in the Azores due to propeller defects.

The American newspaper Daily Illinois reported on October 5, 1927 that "Lilli Dillenz" had been "smuggled on board" shortly before departure. Even the flight of a woman on an attempted crossing of the Atlantic was sensational at the time, American newspapers reported about it with their photo. The first woman to actually cross the Atlantic non-stop became Amelia Earhart a few months later in June 1928 .

Lilly Dillenz's father was the Austrian painter Carl Leopold Hollitzer (1874–1942). She came from her father's first marriage to Olga Scholz (1873-?), Who divorced in 1902.

She herself was married to the artist Richard Dillenz for the second time in 1925 and together with him she founded the Vienna Film Production , which produced films such as Spring Voices (1951) with Paul Hörbiger . In 1959 they both founded the Carl-Leopold-Hollitzer-Museum in the Bad Deutsch-Altenburg family villa, which, however, was dissolved by the heirs. A community center has been located in the building since 2000.

In 2018 was in the seaside town of Aspern in Vienna- Donaustadt the Lilly-Dillenz street named after her.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biddeford Daily Journal Newspaper Archives, Nov 28, 1927 . In: NewspaperArchive.com . November 28, 1927 ( newspaperarchive.com [accessed March 30, 2018]).
  2. ↑ German pilots take off from Belém Portugalforum 2012, accessed on November 25, 2016
  3. ↑ JUNKERS PLANE FALLS IN AZORES TAKE-OFF; Crew of Five and Passenger Strive in Vain to Rise From Water -Bend Propeller Blade in Efforts. In: The New York Times . November 25, 1927, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 30, 2018]).
  4. ^ Daily Illinois October 5, 1927
  5. ↑ Last minute photos 1927 (English)
  6. ^ Bad Deutsch-Altenburg: image of a region , accessed on November 25, 2016
  7. ↑ Hollitzer Group , accessed on November 25, 2016
  8. ^ Hollitzer-Villa in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg becomes community center press office of the Lower Austrian provincial government March 8, 2000
personal data
SURNAME Dillenz, Lilly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dillenz, Elisabeth Leonore; Hollitzer, Elisabeth Leonore (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress and aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1964
Place of death Hainburg on the Danube