Lotte foreman

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Lotte Werkmeister (born December 26, 1885 in Rixdorf near Berlin ; † July 15, 1970 in Bergholz-Rehbrücke , today Nuthetal ) was a German chansonnière, cabaret artist and film actress .

Life

She gained her first stage experience as a choir student in Magdeburg . Before she experienced great success in the operetta Der Soldat der Marie by Leo Ascher from 1916 with over 2000 performances, she sang couplets and operetta melodies by Franz von Suppè , Johann Strauss and Franz Lehár . Lotte Werkmeister had minor appearances in silent films from 1917. She played in revues of the 1920s and appeared "with a typical Berlin snout" in cabarets, including until 1933 in the comedians' cabaret . She also made the acquaintance of Heinrich Zille , from whose milieu numerous couplets came. She only had her first record recording at the age of 41 with the two songs “A white one with a shot?” (By Willi Kollo ) and “When in Werder the cherries bloom” (by Fred Raymond ).

In 1938 Lotte Werkmeister moved to Bergholz-Rehbrücke and lived there until her death. In the 1930s she was an actress in several films, including Das Veilchen vom Potsdamer Platz (1936) and We make music (1942). After the Second World War , at the age of 60, she began a continuation of her cabaret career in the Berliner Kammerbrettl, founded by Hans Joachim Heinrichs in 1945 at the Ostkreuz S-Bahn station. Lotte Werkmeister is an honorary citizen of the Bergholz-Rehbrücke community and is also buried there.

Filmography

literature

  • Together with her, Wolfgang Carlé wrote her biography in 1965 under the title of one of her much-sung chansons: Lotte Werkmeister: once a week ick weenen ... , Berlin, Verlag Henschel.
  • Rudolf Hösch : Cabaret from yesterday and today. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1972, p. 221.
  • Willi Schwabe : My memory of Lotteken (in High German: Lotte Werkmeister) in close-up Neukölln. Cinemas, cameras, copying machines Argon Verlag, Berlin 1989, p. 75.
  • Jeanette Toussaint: Between tradition and obstinacy. Life paths of Potsdam women from the 18th to the 20th century. Published by the Autonomen Frauenzentrum Potsdam 2009, pp. 70–82. ISBN 978-3-00-027038-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Foreman, Lotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chansonnière, cabaret artist and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Rixdorf
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1970
Place of death Bergholz-Rehbrücke , today Nuthetal