Lucy Millowitsch

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Lucy Millowitsch , and Lucy Haubrich or Lucy Haubrich-Millowitsch (* 8. November 1905 in Chemnitz , † 21st June 1990 in Cologne ) was a German actress , playwright and director of the private Cologne Millowitsch Theater .

Life

Lucy Millowitsch came from an old dynasty of actors . Her parents were the actor Peter Wilhelm Millowitsch (1880-1945) and his wife Käthe, née Planck, a Viennese . Her aunt was the actress and singer Cordy Millowitsch (1890–?). Like her younger brother Willy Millowitsch (1909–1999), whose children Mariele and Peter also learned acting, she too began to be interested in her father's theater at an early age. She was soon on stage with her father and brother, since 1936 in their own venue, the Millowitsch Theater in Cologne, named after the family . There they were able to celebrate great success with the audience. The siblings were considered the ideal choice when it came to portraying spirited couples. Lucy succeeded time and again on stage in encouraging her brother to come up with spontaneous ideas.

From the mid-1930s on, she also appeared in some feature films, such as in 1940 in Trenck, the Pandur with Hans Albers or in 1942 in The Great Game with René Deltgen . In 1939 she was seen in the film Kornblumenblau together with her aunt Cordy Millowitsch . In the last years of the war she withdrew from film and concentrated entirely on the theater. In the last year of the war, her father died on January 14, 1945.

Since the venue on Aachener Straße was only slightly damaged by the bombing of the Second World War , it could be reopened on September 16, 1945 at the request of the then Mayor Konrad Adenauer . The siblings, who in the meantime had taken over the management of the theater together, brought the play Das Glücksmädel to the stage. Success came back quickly.

On October 27, 1953, the NWDR broadcast the play Der Etappenhase by the Low German poet Karl Bunje for the first time, a theater performance on television. This made the theater known nationwide and made the ensemble, alongside the siblings especially Elsa Scholten , stars. The play Das goldene Kalb , released in 1954, was written by Lucy Millowitsch herself. To date, over 100 plays have been broadcast from the theater, many of which have become veritable street sweepers .

She also appeared in some radio play productions by NWDR Cologne and WDR from 1948 onwards, such as in 1948 and 1962 alongside Erich Ponto in the female lead in the play Schneider Wibbel by Hans Müller-Schlösser .

In 1960 Lucy Millowitsch married the Cologne lawyer , art collector and art patron Josef Haubrich in Venezuela , for whom it was the fifth marriage. The marriage lasted only a short time, as Haubrich died on September 4, 1961 at the age of 72 while on vacation in Bad Münstereifel . In the following years Millowitsch withdrew more and more from the theater, although she was considered one of the most popular German folk actresses at the time. She now took care of her husband's estate.

Gravesite of Lucy Millowitsch-Haubrich as well as Alice and Josef Haubrich in the Melaten cemetery

Lucy Millowitsch died on June 21, 1990 at the age of 84. The funeral took place on June 27th in Cologne's Melaten cemetery ; the grave is right next to the Millowitsch family grave.

Filmography (selection)

Recordings from the Millowitsch Theater

  • 1953: The stage hare - With Willy Millowitsch, Franz Schneider , Jakob Kauhausen
  • 1954: Three Cologne Boys - Director and Actor: Willy Millowitsch, with Franz Schneider, Harald Landt
  • 1954: Das goldene Kalb (screenplay and actress) - director and actor: Willy Millowitsch, with Elsa Scholten , Lilo Stiegelmeier , Franz Schneider
  • 1954: The lucky girl - With Willy Millowitsch, Elsa Scholten, Franz Schneider
  • 1954: Princess Laundress: Die Rote Jule (Julchen) - Director: Fritz Andelfinger - With Willy Millowitsch, Elsa Scholten, Franz Schneider
  • 1954: The forced admission - With Willy Millowitsch, Elsa Scholten, Robert Jansen
  • 1954: Charley's aunt - director: Hermann Pfeiffer , with Willy Millowitsch, Franz Schneider, Egon Hoegen
  • 1955: Three Cologne Boys - Director and Actor: Willy Millowitsch, with Elsa Scholten, Maja Scholz , Franz Schneider
  • 1958: The Spanish Fly (Emma Klinke) - Director: Kurt Meister , with Willy Millowitsch, Lotti Krekel , Bernd M. Bausch
  • 1959: Three Cologne Boys - Director and Actor: Willy Millowitsch, with Elsa Scholten, Maja Scholz, Karl Heinz Bender
  • 1959: Mädchen aus der Spitzengasse - director and actor: Willy Millowitsch, with Franz Schneider, Elsa Scholten, Lotti Krekel
  • 1959: Das Glücksmädel - director and actor: Willy Millowitsch, with Helga op gen Orth , Karl Heinz Hillebrand
  • 1959: The chaste bon vivant (Anna) - Director: Hermann Pfeiffer, with Willy Millowitsch, Carsta Löck , Axel Monjé
  • 1959: Schneider Wibbel - Director: Peter Hamel , with Willy Millowitsch, Heinz Bennent , Hans Müller-Westernhagen
  • 1959: Drei Kölsche Jungs - Director and Actor: Willy Millowitsch, with Elsa Scholten, Helga op gen Orth, Karl Heinz Bender (studio recording)
  • 1961: Canned pork - Director: Hermann Pfeiffer, with Willy Millowitsch, Lotti Krekel, Carla Neizel
  • 1961: In the night jacket district (Frau Schluddermeier) - director and actor: Willy Millowitsch, with Ully Engel-Harck , Franz Schneider, Elsa Scholten
  • 1968: The Master Boxer (Adelheid Breitenbach, his wife) - Director: Fred Kraus , with Willy Millowitsch, Thomas Härtner , Lotti Krekel , Günter Lamprecht
  • 1968: Pension Schöller (Josephine Krüger) - Director: Fred Kraus, with Willy Millowitsch, Elsa Scholten, Lotti Krekel
  • 1969: Der Etappenhase - Direction and actor: Willy Millowitsch, with Lotti Krekel, Frank Barufski , Elsa Scholten

Radio plays

Spokeswoman

Radio play editing

literature

  • German Theater Museum, Munich

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Administration of the Melatenfriedhof in Cologne

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Millowitsch, Lucy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haubrich, Lucy; Haubrich-Millowitsch, Lucy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1990
Place of death Cologne