Lotte Tobisch

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Lotte Tobisch (2008)

Charlotte "Lotte" Tobisch-Labotýn (born March 28, 1926 in Vienna ; † October 19, 2019 in Baden ) was an Austrian manager , actress and author . She was considered the grande dame of Viennese society and the epitome of the elegant Viennese salon lady .

She achieved great fame as the organizer of the Vienna Opera Ball , which she directed from 1981 to 1996. Most recently she was president of the Artists Help Artists Association in Baden ( Lower Austria ) and occasionally appeared in television programs.

family

Lotte Tobisch-Labotýn was born in Vienna in 1926 as the daughter of the architect Karl Tobisch-Labotýn (1897–1977) and his wife Nora Anna Josefine Maria Krassl von Traissenegg (1906–2002) in the Auersperg sanatorium . Her grandfather Karl Anton Josef Tobisch (1860-1932) was President of the State School Board of Bohemia and Moravia and was raised to the hereditary Austrian knighthood in 1912 as Knight Tobisch von Labotýn . When it was decided to abolish the nobility in Austria in 1919 , this also affected the Tobisch von Labotýn family.

Her stepfather was Gustav David Lederer (1878–1951); her aunt Margarete (1901–1991) was married to Karl Steinhoff , Interior Minister of the GDR, for the second time .

Life

She enjoyed an education at high schools, such as at Marquartstein Castle in Upper Bavaria or at the Sacre Coeur grammar school in Vienna . She completed her training at the Franz Schubert Conservatory . While the family fled to Bavaria towards the end of the war, Tobisch stayed alone in Vienna, where she met Erhard Buschbeck, 37 years her senior . With him she entered into a relationship that lasted until his death in 1960. In 2013 she said: ... that I escaped with Erhard Buschbeck, that was an unparalleled scandal in my family. She later lived with Michael Simon until his death, from 1963 to 1967 Israeli ambassador in Vienna.

As an actress, she was a student of Raoul Aslan and made an early debut at the Vienna Burgtheater , then also at the Vienna Volkstheater and the Theater in der Josefstadt . In 1986 Lotte Tobisch received the Burgtheater's ring of honor. But she also worked as a film actress. She played the role of Eva Braun in the film The Last Act under Georg Wilhelm Pabst . At the Burgtheater she also worked as an artistic works council. Lotte Tobisch is best known to the general public as the organizer of the Vienna Opera Ball , which she directed from 1981 to 1996.

Under Science Minister Rudolf Scholten , who held office from 1990 to 1997, she was given the professional title of Professor in 1996. For several years Tobisch exchanged letters with the philosopher and sociologist Theodor W. Adorno , which was published in book form in 2003.

On 1 October 2007 Tobisch was in City Hall by Councilor for Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny , the Medal of Honor of the Austrian capital Vienna awarded in gold. In recent years she has become increasingly involved in social projects, including the Artists Help Artists campaign and the Austrian Alzheimer's League .

In the 2017 National Council election in Austria , she supported the NEOS candidacy . In the state elections in Lower Austria in 2018 , she supported the Lower Austria People's Party in the election campaign , in particular the Lower Austrian Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner .

Lotte Tobisch (2013)

From 1951 she lived at the Opernring . She died on October 19, 2019 at the age of 93 in the Künstlerheim in Baden near Vienna.

Part of Lotte Tobisch's estate (14 archive boxes) was handed over to the Vienna Library in the City Hall in summer 2020 .

Filmography (selection)

Further awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Lotte Tobisch  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Chronicle: Lotte Tobisch is dead. In: wien. ORF.at . October 19, 2019, accessed October 19, 2019 .
  2. Opera ball grande dame and castle actress Lotte Tobisch died - derStandard.at. Retrieved October 21, 2019 (Austrian German).
  3. ^ Diepresse.com: Opera ball grande dame Lotte Tobisch died at the age of 93. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  4. GESUND + LEBEN: Vienna's most elegant salon lady turns 85. Accessed on November 2, 2019 .
  5. ^ Artists' home Baden - Artists help artists - Hilde Wagener Heim. Retrieved on October 16, 2018 (German).
  6. Meysels, LO: The world of Lotte Tobisch . Edition Va Bene, 2002, ISBN 978-3-85167-120-9 ( google.at ).
  7. Lotte Tobisch celebrates 85th birthday on ORF from March 28, 2011
  8. Graduates of the FSK. In: Franz Schubert Conservatory - Vienna . Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
  9. Interview with Lotte Tobisch in the press on December 7, 2013, accessed on January 11, 2014.
  10. news networld Internet Service GmbH: "What was my performance?" March 28, 2016, accessed October 27, 2019 .
  11. Die Welt der Lotte Tobisch, page 190, accessed on September 5, 2010.
  12. Weblink: http://www.wien.gv.at/vtx/vtx-rk-xlink?SEITE=020071001025
  13. Lotte Tobisch in the personal committee for NEOS . In: news.ORF.at . September 22, 2017 ( orf.at [accessed October 16, 2018]).
  14. ^ People's Party of Lower Austria: Lotte Tobisch on Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner. January 11, 2018, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  15. Culture today: Ringstrasse trilogy , ORF III , March 10, 2015, 7:50 pm ("For 64 years https://wien.orf.at/stories/3058332/…" )
  16. Opernball-Grande-Dame and castle actress Lotte Tobisch died on derstandard.de, accessed on October 19, 2019
  17. ^ [1] , ORF report from July 18, 2020
  18. a b c Lotte Tobisch, "Lady of the World", received the Golden Medal of Honor on October 1, 2010, accessed on January 11, 2014.
  19. Amalthea - In a nutshell. Retrieved on March 22, 2019 (German).