Lotte Medelsky
Lotte Medelsky (born May 20, 1880 as Karoline Medelsky in Vienna , † December 4, 1960 in Nussdorf am Attersee , Upper Austria ; married Frank / Krauspe) was an Austrian actress .
Life
Her father Karl Medelsky (Vienna, September 6, 1851–?) Was the gas cashier of the ICGA. The mother Leopoldine, b. Egner (October 11, 1853–?) Was a seamstress . From 1894 she received training at the Vienna Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music . On the recommendation of her teacher, the court actor Alexander Strakosch , she was engaged at the Burgtheater at the age of 17 , where she stayed until her retirement in 1946. She made her debut on November 23, 1896 in the comedy War in Peace , then played Hedwig Ekdal in Ibsen's Die Wildente . Other important roles were Gretchen in Faust (1897) and Christine in Liebelei (1898), which she played again and again in later years.
Her repertoire of over 200 roles included the maid Rosl in the world premiere of Anton Wildgans Dies Irae (1919), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Amalie in The Robbers . She took on the title role of the Maid of Orleans and the role of Cordelia in King Lear . In plays by Ludwig Anzengruber she was seen as Horlacher-Lies in Der G'wissenswurm and Vroni in Der Meineidbauer . She frequently took part in performances of works by Gerhart Hauptmann and Arthur Schnitzler .
She gave numerous guest performances and was Marthe Schwerdtlein in the production of Faust at the Salzburg Festival from 1933 to 1947, as well as Jedermann's mother in Jedermann from 1947 and 1949 to 1952 and Hero's mother in Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen by Franz Grillparzer in 1948 . Film appearances remained an exception.
Lotte Medelsky had been married to the actor Eugen Frank (actually Krauspe) since 1901 and lived alternately in the Villa Bergauer in Hietzing and in Nussdorf am Attersee. She had a sister, Hermione , who made her debut in the Volkstheater on August 29, 1901. Her children Liselotte (1907–1981) and Hans († 1946) also became actors. Her last role was the wooden woman in The Spatter .
Her honorary grave is in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 34, number 24I).
Awards
- 1899: Appointment as court actress
- 1924: Honorary member of the Burgtheater
- 1926: Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Austrian Order of Merit
- 1936: Cross of Merit for Art and Science on the occasion of her 40 years on the stage
- 1937: Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna
- 1947: Professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar
Filmography
- 1915: The war sponsor child
- 1916: Bogdan Stimoff
- 1933: The musician from Eisenstadt
- 1935: 4½ musketeers
- 1955: Dunja
literature
- Lorenz Mikoletzky: Medelsky, Lotte. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 595 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Lotte Medelsky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- biography
- Entry on Lotte Medelsky in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baptism book, Sankt Josef Margarethen, Folio 108, online
- ↑ Place of death according to aeiou. IMDb and rororo Theaterlexikon 2, (2007), on the other hand, name Vienna as the place of death, IMDb also name December 5th as the date of death.
- ↑ Medelsky, Hermione . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
- ↑ Lotte Medelsky in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Medelsky, Lotte |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Medelsky, Karoline; Medelsky, Charlotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1960 |
| Place of death | Nussdorf am Attersee , Upper Austria , Austria |