Lotte hatred

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Charlotte ("Lotte") Hildegard Hass (née Baierl) (born November 6, 1928 in Vienna ; † January 14, 2015 there ) was an Austrian diving pioneer. As the second wife of the naturalist Hans Hass (1919–2013), she appeared in some of his films as an underwater model and leading actress.

life and work

When Hans Hass was looking for a secretary for his office in Vienna in the summer of 1947, Lotte Baierl successfully applied for the position. She had just graduated from high school and was a huge fan of hatred. In addition to her office work, Lotte learned how to use diving equipment and underwater cameras, because she hoped to be able to participate in Hass’s next expedition. To do this, she trained in swimming pools, dived and took photos in the lakes around Vienna. She was supported and trained by Kurt Schaefer , Hans Hass's assistant.

Hans Hass was generally against the participation of a woman in his expeditions. However, Lotte Baierl's participation was finally possible when the Vienna Sascha Film Society insisted that Hass should make his next documentary film more attractive to a larger audience with a pretty female lead actress. Lotte Baierl was chosen. The 1950 expedition to the Red Sea , which lasted several months, was very arduous but successful. Hass was able to film manta rays and whale sharks for the first time . Lotte Baierl worked there as an underwater photographer and model. To the delight of the audience, she always wore swimwear creations that were particularly low in textile in the film. In 1970 she published her experiences during the expedition to the Red Sea in her book "A Girl on the Sea Floor".

Soon afterwards she became internationally known. She received film offers from Hollywood, which she turned down all because she did not want to become a full-time actress.

As well as Lotte Baierl was well received in the USA, her participation in the expedition to the Red Sea in Germany and Austria also met with criticism, because there were doubts about the scientific seriousness of Hans Hass. The "Hessische Nachrichten" described the expedition to the Red Sea as a "pin-up expedition" because of Lotte's participation. Others mockingly titled Lotte Baierl as "Lotte Haierl". In 1959, the German news magazine “Der Spiegel” sneered in a television review: “No grotto without Lotte”. No one understood the balancing act that Hass had to make in order to commercialize his films: They were produced in the manner of documentaries, but reworked as a feature film and presented to the audience. This mixture worked surprisingly well: The film Adventure in the Red Sea won the International Prize for Long Documentary Films at the 1951 Venice Biennale.

At the beginning of November 1950, on the return flight from Port Sudan to Vienna, Hans Hass and Lotte Baierl became engaged. Hass's marriage to his first wife, actress Hannelore Schroth , had been divorced in April 1950. Hans Hass and Lotte's civil marriage took place on November 29, 1950 in Küsnacht on Lake Zurich. The church wedding took place in February 1963 in the Augustinian Church in Vienna city center.

In the 1950s Lotte also took part in both of Hans Hass's “ Xarifa ” expeditions. After the birth of her daughter Meta in November 1957, Lotte Hass withdrew from the public eye and devoted herself mainly to housekeeping and upbringing. She rarely returned in front of the camera. In 1976 she played a supporting role in The Man from Portofino , episode 29 of the popular crime series Derrick .

In 2018 the Lotte-Hass-Weg in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after her.

Lotte and Hans Hass at boot 2009 on his 90th birthday

Movies

Awards

  • 1959 During the second Xarifa expedition, a new species of fish was discovered, which the scientists named “Lotilia graciliosa” in honor of Lotte Hass.
  • 1989 IADS Lifetime Achievement Award (International Association of Diving schools, USA)
  • 1990 Diving Pioneer Award of the TC Salzkammergut
  • 1997 Historical Diver Magazine Pioneer Award (USA)
  • 2000 Admission to the Women Divers Hall of Fame (USA)
  • 2000 Admission to the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame (USA)
  • 2006 Beneath the Sea Legends Award (USA)
  • 2009 Gold Medal of Honor from the Association of German Sports Divers (VDST)
  • 2012 Romy Platinum for her life's work
  • 2015 A new beer recipe is named “Xarifa - The Blonde Beauty from Vienna” in her honor.
  • 2018 A street in Vienna is named "Lotte-Hass-Weg"

International significance

The first full-length feature films were shot under the surface of the water in France between 1946 and 1949. One example is the 1947 film Les trafiquants de la mer directed by Willy Rozier and Michel Rocca . They required film actresses to learn to dive and to dive up to 30 meters deep. What was also new about these films was that the game scenes were already illuminated with underwater spotlights, which were powered by batteries with waterproof cables from the escort ship.

The French actress Françoise Arnoul in Willy Rozier's film L'Épave , which was first shown in 1949 , is considered the world's first notable film actress to have appeared in an underwater film .

filming

In the summer and autumn of 2010, her book A Girl on the Sea Floor was filmed under the title The Girl on the Sea Floor. It is about the expedition to the Red Sea in 1950. Yvonne Catterfeld plays her role in the film. In some underwater stunt scenes, Anna von Boetticher doubled Catterfeld . Hans Hass is portrayed by Benjamin Sadler . The film was broadcast on December 8, 2011 simultaneously by ORF and ZDF .

literature

  • Lotte Baierl: Expedition into the Viennese Arctic Ocean. Great Austria Illustrierte, Vienna, October 1949.
  • Lotte Hass: A girl on the ocean floor. Vienna, 1970 (English license edition 1972, Polish license edition 1976, Italian license edition 2019). Expanded new edition: The girl on the seabed: the story of the diving pioneers Lotte and Hans Hass. Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-64054-2 and Una ragazza sul fondo del mare , Magenes, Milano 2019, ISBN 978-88-6649-190-3
  • Michael Jung: Obituary for Lotte Hass . In: Diving History, Issue 3, 2015. PDF download

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Hass died at the age of 86 . On: ORF.at. January 19, 2015, accessed on January 19, 2015.
  2. ^ Hessian news. Kassel, December 20, 1950.
  3. ↑ The mirror. Hamburg, December 9, 1959.
  4. ↑ Women Divers Hall of Fame. ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 / www.wdhof.org
  5. ↑ Xarifa - The Blonde Beauty from Vienna. New type of beer in Vienna.
  6. ↑ https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Lotte-Hass-Weg
personal data
SURNAME Hate, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hass, Charlotte Hildegard (full name); Baierl, Charlotte Hildegard (full maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diver, actress and wife of the natural scientist and diving pioneer Hans Hass
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2015
Place of death Vienna , Austria