Lucie Mannheim

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Lucie Mannheim (born April 30, 1899 in Köpenick , † July 18, 1976 in Braunlage ) was a German stage and film actress .

Life

She made her debut at the Königsberger Schauspielhaus in 1916 and played at the Volksbühne Berlin from 1918 to 1922 . She then worked at the Prussian State Theater until 1933 , where she appeared in numerous productions by her husband, the director Jürgen Fehling . She played, among other things, Hannele in Gerhart Hauptmann's Hanneles Himmelfahrt , Käthchen in Kleist's Das Käthchen von Heilbronn and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( Shakespeare ). Under Fehling's direction, she also appeared in old Berlin chants such as Das Fest der Handwerker .

Since 1918, Lucie Mannheim appeared in silent films . She had her first job in Between Two Worlds (director: Adolf Gärtner ). In the film she first played rural girl roles. In 1923 she had the main female role, the young shepherdess, in Fritz Wendhausen's film ballad The Stone Rider . In the same year she was also seen in GW Pabst's first film The Treasure as the daughter of the bell founder and in FW Murnau's lost peasant drama The Expulsion . The sound film Madame wishes no children (1933) was her last film in Germany until after the Second World War .

Lucie Mannheim was of Jewish origin and therefore went into exile in Great Britain in 1933 . She played theater in London and worked on the BBC's German program . First, she made an appearance in Alfred Hitchcock strips The 39 Steps of 1935. During the war she often spoke on the radio and appealed to the soldiers to abandon the war. She sang a parody of Lale Andersen's Lili Marleen known as the "anti-Hitler version" . She also shot a propaganda film The True Story of Lilli Marlene in exile in England. After 1949 she gave guest appearances in Germany. In 1953 she returned to Germany and took up her acting work again. Here are the strips filmed in 1958 Do you confess Dr. Corda! and The iron Gustav as well as the last witness at the side of Martin Held and Hanns Lothar should be mentioned.

From 1964 she was only seen in a few television games . These included the television productions Justice in Vorovogorsk (1964), The Trojan War Does Not Take Place ( 1964) and General Frédéric (1964). Her last role was in the television play Cher Antoine or Die Missed Love (1970). In 1967, Lucie Mannheim received the Gold Filmband for many years of outstanding work in German film. Since 1941 she was married to the English actor Marius Goring .

Text of the Lili Marleen parody

This Lilli-Marleen version of an unknown text was one of the propagandistic versions for the secret BBC listeners in Germany and was mostly broadcast with subsequent requests to give up during the war.

I have to write to you today, my heart is so heavy.
I have to stay at home and I love you so much.
You say you're only doing your duty, but that can't comfort me.
I'm waiting by the lantern. Your Lili Marleen

What I still suffer here, only the moon and I know.
Once it shone on both of us, now it only shines on me.
My heart hurts so bitterly when I stand by the lantern
with my own shadow. Your Lili Marleen

Maybe you will fall in Russia, maybe in Africa.
But somewhere, there you fall, that's what your guide wants!
And if we do meet again, oh may the lantern be
in another Germany. Yours Lili Marleen

The Führer is a flayer, that's what we'll see here.
He makes children orphans and every woman widow.
And who is to blame for everything - I want to see by the lantern.
Hang it on the lantern! Your Lili Marleen

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Your Lilli Marleen"
  2. ↑ Lucie Mannheim in The True Story of Lilli Marlene on YouTube
personal data
SURNAME Mannheim, Lucie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Koepenick
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1976
Place of death Braunlage