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Liselotte Pulver, 1971

Liselotte Schmid-Pulver , widely known as Lilo Pulver (born October 11, 1929 in Bern ), is a Swiss actress . She is considered one of the most famous actresses in her country and was one of the most popular stars in German-language cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. Her most famous films include I often think of Piroschka , Das Wirtshaus im Spessart , Die Zürcher Verlobung and Eins, Zwei, drei .

Life

training

Liselotte Pulver was the last child of the cultural engineer Fritz Eugen Pulver and his wife Germaine. She had a brother named Eugen Emanuel (1925-2016) and a sister named Corinne , who later became a journalist. From 1945, powder attended the commercial school and worked as a model after graduating in 1948 . According to her own account, an unfortunate love for a surgeon in Bern inspired her to try her luck as an actress. After taking lessons from Margarethe Noé von Nordberg , she trained as an actress at the Bern Drama School (today Bern University of the Arts ) . She first played small roles at the Stadttheater Bern and then the main role of Marie in Clavigo ; after that she was engaged by the Schauspielhaus Zürich , among others for Faust II . She made her debut in the film Föhn with Hans Albers and was signed by Ilse Alexander and Elli Silman . In 1951 she became a crowd favorite alongside OW Fischer in Heidelberger Romance . Soon she was committed to boyish, cheeky female roles.

German language productions

Her popularity grew in German-speaking countries through the role of Vreneli in the film adaptations of the novels by Jeremias Gotthelf in Uli der Knecht and Uli der Pächter . From the mid-1950s until well into the 1960s, Liselotte Pulver was one of the most popular actresses, especially in the Federal Republic of Germany, with film successes such as The Last Summer , I often think of Piroschka , Die Zürcher Verlobung , Das Wirtshaus im Spessart and Das Spukschloß im Spessart German-speaking cinemas . In 1960 she played in the film Das Glas Wasser by Helmut Käutner at the side of Gustaf Gründgens .

International productions

She became internationally known in 1958 for the lead role in Douglas Sirk's film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel Time to Live and Time to Die alongside John Gavin and in Billy Wilder's comedy One, Two, Three from 1961, in which she starred alongside James Cagney and Horst Buchholz played the fair-haired Fräuleinwunder Fraulein Ingeborg and in a scene in a dotted dress to the music of Aram Chatschaturjan's saber dance on a table, Soviet agents turned their heads.

The actress also gained international recognition when she was invited to the competition jury of the Cannes International Film Festival in 1961 . In 1964 she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Sonya in state affairs . A career in Hollywood was denied powder. In her autobiography ... if you laugh anyway from 1993, she regretted her contract-related or health-related refusal of promising roles in international productions such as Ben Hur , El Cid and Der Gendarme von St. Tropez . “You could say that they were absolute club hits! After that, you don't get up so easily, ”said Pulver decades later about the lost roles in Ben Hur and El Cid .

Liselotte Pulver has also appeared in front of the camera for numerous French productions, including twice alongside Jean Gabin . She played her most demanding role in the film, directed by Jacques Rivette , The nun as abbess who falls in love with one of her protégés ( Anna Karina ). In 1980 she was awarded the Filmband in Gold for her many years of outstanding work in German film . In the course of her acting career, she received the Bambi six times . In 1996 she was honored with the Platinum Romy , which was followed by other awards for her life's work. Characteristic of her personality is her extraordinary and hearty laugh, which has become her trademark.

Late creative phase

From the 1970s onwards, Pulver was rarely seen in cinemas, and the number of her television appearances decreased. A small comeback she experienced from 1978 to 1985 as "Lilo" in children's television in the German played background story of the Sesame Street of the NDR . She could still be seen in a few TV productions and movies until she was in front of the camera for the last time in 2007 in the remake Die Zürcher Verlobung - Screenplay for love in a cameo role. In 2012, she announced that she would no longer play a role.

Private

Liselotte Pulver was married to the actor Helmut Schmid from 1961 until his death in 1992 , with whom she also played in Gustav Adolfs Page , Kohlhiesels Töchter und Eins, Zwei, drei . The marriage resulted in two children, Marc-Tell (* 1962) and Melisande (1968-1989), who died by suicide . The journalist Corinne Pulver , Lilo's older sister, published a book about her niece when Melisande died in 1993 .

Powder lives in the Bern senior citizens' residence Der Burgerspittel , her (still locked) estate is located in the Bern Burger Library . Your private archive has been in the Frankfurt Film Museum since 2010.

Publications

Liselotte Pulver has published several autobiographical books. In 1977 a long-playing record with twelve new recordings of her film songs and other songs was released under the title Ich lach ', what should I cry .

Filmography

cinemamovies

Television (selection)

  • 1954: Our little town
  • 1956: The Emerald Story
  • 1956: Jeanne or The Lark
  • 1963: Berlin Melodie - From the Zille Ball to the Jazz Club
  • 1966: The rain maker
  • 1969: Gun Jenny
  • 1970: The Cotton Pickers (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1971: Timo (TV series)
  • 1972: Hooper's Last Hunt (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1972: The spiral of happiness
  • 1973: Orpheus in the Underworld (TV movie)
  • 1975: You can also live differently (TV series)
  • 1975: morals
  • 1976: Café Hungaria (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1977–1986: Sesame Street (TV series, 43 episodes)
  • 1978: The Old Man : A Suitcase (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1979: Another opera
  • 1980: A Globetrotter's Cruises (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1981: Under and Over (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1982: Every Wednesday
  • 1983: Boeing Boeing
  • 1986–1987: The Secret Drawer (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1987: Don't always run away
  • 1988: Autumn in Lugano
  • 1989–1991: With Body and Soul (TV series, 9 episodes)
  • 1993: Alles aus Liebe (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1995: Christmas party with obstacles
  • 1996: Everything was a lie
  • 2004: René Deltgen - The gentle rebel (DVD documentation)
  • 2007: The Zurich engagement - script for love
  • 2019: Lilos Lachen / The amazing life of Liselotte Pulver (documentary)

Discography (selection)

Music recordings

  • 1958: Das Wirtshaus im Spessart, Original Soundtrack, Electrola 7 EGW 8467 (EP)
  • 1960: Chansons from Das Glas Wasser , Amiga 5 40 213 (EP)
  • 1962: Every potty finds its lid / little boy, my boy, Electrola E 22364 (single)
  • 1977: I laugh, what should I cry, Decca (LP)

Audio books & radio plays

  • 1959: Peter and the Wolf.
  • 1960: Minna von Barnhelm or The Happy Soldiers. (LP), Liselotte Pulver in the title role
  • 1978: Mary Poppins, Carousel (LP)
  • 1982: Punch and Judy Theater No. 1 + 2, Tudor (LP)

Awards

Autobiographies

  • The laughing story. Droemer-Knaur, Zurich 1974, ISBN 3-85886-036-0 (together with Corinne Pulver).
  • ... if you still laugh. Diary of my life. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-548-22918-2 .
  • Please stay a little longer. Langen Müller, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7844-2546-1 (currently under ISBN 3-548-35771-7 ).
  • My miracles take a little longer. Stories and pictures from my life. Langen Müller, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7844-2744-8 .
  • The secret of my laugh. Langen Müller, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7844-2969-6 .
  • Laughed in the face of life. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-455-85176-2 (conversations with Olaf Köhne and Peter Käfferlein).
  • What passes is not lost. Script of my life. Lilo Pulver opens her private archive. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-455-00647-6 (with Peter Käfferlein and Olaf Köhne).

literature

Web links

Commons : Liselotte Pulver  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuela Nyffenegger: The most contagious film laugh celebrates its birthday | NZZ . October 11, 2014, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed March 18, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Liselotte Pulver - information and films. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Michael Gautier: Powder, Liselotte. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  4. ↑ memorial Eugene Emanuel powder, January 17, 2016
  5. ↑ FOCUS Online: The most beautiful laugh in the film. Retrieved December 27, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Liselotte powder in ... if you still laugh . Ullstein, Frankfurt / Main-Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-548-22918-2 , pp. 122, 151 & 253.
  7. ↑ "I was always just an affair" - Interview with Liselotte Pulver . In: sueddeutsche.de , May 17, 2010 (accessed October 11, 2019).
  8. ↑ Liselotte Pulver no longer wants to make films. On derwesten.de , December 23, 2012
  9. ↑ Birgit Kienzle: Liselotte Pulver , daserste.de , June 15, 2009
  10. ^ Actress Liselotte Pulver 75 , swissinfo.ch , October 6, 2004
  11. ↑ The joy of Easter passed on to others. In: Husumer Nachrichten , April 26, 2011
  12. ↑ brc: Lilo Pulver talks about her life in the old people's home. “Most of them don't even know who I am”. In: blick.ch . Ringier , September 12, 2018, accessed July 1, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Liselotte Pulver's estate in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
  14. ↑ Liselotte Pulver: What passes is not lost. Hamburg 2019. pp. 13–15.
  15. ↑ To soundtrackcollector.com
  16. ↑ See: soundtrackcollector.com
  17. ↑ According to discogs.com
  18. ↑ Information from discogs.com
personal data
SURNAME Powder, Liselotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Powder, Lilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern