Lina Loos

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Lina Loos , née Carolina Catharina Obertimpfler (born October 9, 1882 in Vienna ; † June 6, 1950 there ), was an actress and columnist and for a short time the wife of the architect Adolf Loos .

Live and act

Lina Loos in the Linden-Cabaret, Berlin (1913). Color lithography by Jo Steiner

Lina Loos was the daughter of a trader from Wiener Neustadt and a well-known cafetier in Vienna, Carl Obertimpfler, who ran the Grand Café Casa Piccola (6th, Mariahilfer Straße 1b) from 1897 until his death in 1927 , and who has been since 1873 with him married Carolina born. Ockermüller, 1851–1922, from a wealthy farming family in Sieghartskirchen in the Tulln district, Lower Austria. ( Klimt friend Emilie Flöge and her sisters opened the Schwestern Flöge fashion salon on the floor above the café in 1904. )

Lina Obertimpfler was a well-known beauty in the city from a very young age. She was worshiped by men like Peter Altenberg , Egon Friedell and Franz Theodor Csokor ; Csokor later became a close friend. At the Altenberg regulars 'table in Löwenbräu (in Teinfaltstrasse behind the Burgtheater ), the drama student met the twelve-year-old architect Adolf Loos in spring 1902, whom she married on July 21, 1902, from an uncle Loos' in Eisgrub in South Moravia got married. Groomsmen were the well-known interior designer and furniture manufacturer Max Schmidt and his brother Karl Leo Schmidt; he stood in because Peter Altenberg, who was chosen by Loos as best man, “couldn't be moved” to “get up so early”.

In 1903 the Loos apartment at Giselastraße 3 (since 1919: Bösendorferstraße ) in the city center of Vienna was completed; the facility is now in the Wien Museum .

The marriage, which was separated in 1905, ended in catastrophe and social scandal. The 18-year-old high school student Heinz Lang fell in love with Lina Loos and she had started an affair with him. When Adolf Loos discovered Lang's love letters, Lina Loos ended her relationship with Lang. He asked Peter Altenberg for advice, who - according to Hugo von Hofmannsthal's notes - answered: “What should you do? Shoot yourself. What will they do? Live on. Because they are as cowardly as I am, as cowardly as the whole generation, hollowed out inside, a liar like me. ”On August 27, 1904, Heinz Lang committed suicide. ( Arthur Schnitzler processed the affair in his piece fragment Das Wort, which was unpublished during his lifetime .)

As a result of the scandal, Lina Loos fled to the USA in January 1905 , where she was part of Heinrich Conried's theater troupe ; However, she returned to Europe in May 1905 and appeared under various stage names in Germany, from 1907 also in Vienna. On June 19, 1905, her marriage to Adolf Loos separated. In her play How one becomes what one is, which was only discovered posthumously , Lina Loos reflected on the development of her marriage to Adolf Loos.

From 1904 Lina Loos published features in newspapers and magazines (such as Neues Wiener Journal , Neues Wiener Tagblatt , Der Cross section , Die Dame ), and from 1946 to 1949 in the communist cultural journal Österreichisches Tagebuch (later renamed Wiener Tagebuch ). Her articles, which appeared regularly, especially after the end of the First World War, were characterized by witty wit, pointed formulations and critical observation.

Before 1914, Lina Loos appeared as an actress and cabaret artist in New York, St. Petersburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt and Berlin (where she was engaged from 1910–1913 at the Linden-Cabaret , where Egon Friedell also appeared) and - under her stage name Lina Vetter - in the Viennese Cabaret Fledermaus . In 1921 she became a member of the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna, later directed by Rudolf Beer , where her brother Karl Forest had previously worked as an actor; her one-act mother was premiered here in the same year . Adolf Loos died in 1933. Until 1938 Lina Loos appeared in the Viennese theaters directed by Beer (1924–1932 Volkstheater, 1933–1938 Scala , 4th, Favoritenstrasse 8) in mostly smaller roles.

During the Nazi era , Lina Loos largely withdrew from the public eye, only looked after by Leopoldine Rüther, friend, illustrator and subsequent user of her apartment; Friedell and Rudolf Beer died by suicide, Csokor went abroad. Lina Loos' lungs and kidneys were sick now. Until 1943 she published occasionally in the Neue Wiener Tagblatt .

After 1945 the declared Christian and pacifist became involved in the KPÖ- affiliated women's and peace movement , and in March 1949 became President of the Federation of Democratic Women and a member of the Austrian Peace Council. In 1947 her book came out without a title , in 1948 the second edition. She became a member of the Austrian PEN Club , whose long-time president was Franz Theodor Csokor, who had returned to Vienna in 1947.

Four days before her death, Loos was admitted to the Vienna General Hospital , where she died on June 6, 1950 after suffering severe suffering. She was buried on June 10, 1950 in the Sieveringer Friedhof (Department 2, Group 12, Row 3, No. 15). Katharina Friedl († 1921) was previously buried in this grave, after Loos Johanna Kozibratka († 1976) and Leopoldine Rüther (1898–1981), who edited letters from and to Lina Loos with Csokor in 1966 (see literature). The right to use Lina Loos' grave expired on December 4, 2018. Since the municipality of Vienna does not care about such “marginal” Viennese cultural greats, this grave will probably be abandoned.

As she herself wrote, Lina Loos had "finally settled in Sievering " after numerous trips abroad , where she initially moved into a summer apartment in 1909. She appreciated the simplicity of this Heurigen suburb , which has belonged to the 19th district of Vienna since 1892 , and lived in Sieveringer Strasse 107 on the fourth floor on door 11. Loos died in the general hospital. After her death, Leopoldine Rüther, who was also Loos' sole heir, took over the apartment, as Hilde Schmölzer reported for the Viennese daily Die Presse in 1966 , and she kept her friend's memory.

Adolf Opel did a great job collecting and publishing her work ; Julia Danielczyk assessed his editorial work on the website of the Literaturhaus Wien in 2004 critically: “Unfortunately, Opel's emphasis dominates” (p. 30).

Works

literature

  • Franz Theodor Csokor, Leopoldine Rüther (Ed.): You silver lady you. Letters from and to Lina Loos , Zsolnay, Vienna 1966, DNB 457456272 .
  • Peter Haage: The party animal who only ate books. Egon Friedell and his group . Claassen, Hamburg 1971.
  • Adolf Opel (Ed.): You silver lady you. Letters from and to Lina Loos , reissued and commented on by Adolf Opel, Edition Atelier, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-903005-17-4 .
  • Lisa Fischer: Lina Loos - or the reconstruction of female creativity in a social-historical biography , dissertation, Vienna 1993.
  • Adolf Opel (Ed.): Lina Loos. Collected writings , Edition Va Bene, Vienna / Klosterneuburg 2003, ISBN 3-85167-149-X .
  • Lisa Fischer: Lina Loos or When the Muse Kisses Himself. Eine Biographie , Böhlau, Vienna 1994; 2. A. ibid. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77611-6 .

Movies

Web links

Commons : Lina Loos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives of the cathedral parish of St. Stephan, Tom's baptismal register. 122, fol. 125.
  2. ↑ Café Casa Piccola in the Design Info Pool (dip) of the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dip.mak.at
  3. ↑ Lisa Fischer, see literature, p. 44
  4. ↑ Lina Loos: The untitled book (see works), p. 44
  5. ↑ Lina Loos: How to ... (see works), p. 279
  6. ↑ Lina Loos: The untitled book , p. 49
  7. ^ Lehmanns Wiener Adressbuch, 1942 edition, Volume 1, p. 704
  8. ↑ Hilde Schmölzer: Visiting Lina Loos , in Lina Loos: How to ... (see works), p. 295 f.
  9. ↑ Review of January 24, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Loos, Lina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Obertimpfler, Lina (maiden name); Vetter, Lina (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress and author, wife of Adolf Loos
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1950
Place of death Vienna