Louise Martini

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Louise Martini in the studio of the station Rot-Weiß-Rot (1952)

Louise Martini (actually Marie-Louise Chiba , married Schwarz ; born  November 10, 1931 in Vienna ; †  January 17, 2013 there ) was an Austrian actress and radio host .

Life

Louise Martini discovered her love for the theater, who made her mother's maiden name her stage name when she played Lottchen in Ferdinand Raimund's Der Bauer als Millionär in a school play at the age of twelve . Before finishing school, she began her acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar , which she completed a year after graduating from high school. She got her first engagement at the Small Theater in the Konzerthaus, then she played at the Vienna Volkstheater .

In the 1950s she was a member of the cabaret group known today as the Nameless Ensemble , which also included Gerhard Bronner , Helmut Qualtinger , Carl Merz , Peter Wehle , Georg Kreisler and Michael Kehlmann . From the beginning, from 1957, Martini was the presenter of the radio show Auto Drivers .

In 1962 she moved to Munich , where she celebrated success in the musical Irma La Douce . Later she was a member of the ensemble at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg , at the Münchner Kammerspiele and at the Münchner Residenztheater . She played her first television role in 1963 under the direction of Ludwig Cremer in Spiel im Morgengrauen . Martini became known to a wide audience primarily through her numerous television appearances, with prominent roles in series such as Traumschiff , Derrick , Der Kommissar , Tatort , Kottan and Ein Fall für Zwei . But she always remained loyal to the radio and acted as a speaker in well over 100 radio plays.

From 1968 she lived again in Vienna, in the residential complex that has been called Helmut-Qualtinger-Hof since September 1989 , and presented the weekly programs Mittags-Martini and Martini-Cocktail on the third radio program Ö3 of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) for 17 years . She has also hosted the Club 2 talk show on several occasions .

After a long absence from the stage in Vienna, Felix Dvorak brought Martini in 1997 for the role of Valerie in his production of Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods at the Berndorf City Theater . Martini was connected to the theater in der Josefstadt , to whose ensemble she belonged to the end. The actress celebrated her 60th stage anniversary in 2009 under the title Nylons, Swing and Chesterfield with excerpts from her career in the Kammerspiele.

Louise Martini has received numerous awards, including a. the Golden Camera (1978), the Golden Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna (1987), the Johann Nestroy Ring (1997) and the Golden Vienna Decoration of Honor (2006). In 1998 her book Ein O für Louise - Wien was published in the 1950s .

Martini also made a name for himself as a Diseuse , as heard on the record Frivolitäten - 10 Diseusen - 10 Chansons by Polydor .

After her first marriage to the vibraphonist Bill Grah , she was married to the director Heinz Wilhelm Schwarz from 1966 until his death in 2004 . Louise Martini died on the night of January 16-17, 2013. On February 4, the funeral service took place in the Simmering fire hall ; her urn was buried in the closest family circle in the cemetery in Anif .

In 2014, Louise-Martini-Strasse in Vienna- Landstrasse (3rd district) was named after her.

Filmography (selection )

Radio plays

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Colleagues said goodbye to Louise Martini at a funeral in Vienna. On: vienna.at. February 4, 2013, accessed December 17, 2013.
  2. ↑ The grave of Louise Martini. On: knerger.de.
personal data
SURNAME Martini, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarz, Maria Louise (married name); Chiba, Maria Louise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress and radio presenter
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 2013
Place of death Vienna , Austria