Luise Hohorst

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Luise Hohorst (born June 2, 1884 in Moscow , Russia , † January 30, 1950 in Munich ) was a German stage and film actress .

Live and act

Luise Hohorst spent her childhood in Tsarist Russia and received her acting training at the beginning of the 20th century. Since 1912 the artist, who was later appointed chamber actress, was closely associated with the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. Here she quickly proved herself to be a versatile character woman. In an obituary it was said "Strangely, cryptic older women were their subject, shaded in tone and intense in the atmosphere." Hohorst's star role was the Russian princess in Max Mohr's piece Improvisations in June . The obituary goes on to say: “This is where her love of the quirky, her almost masculine intelligence and thirst for adventure combined with memories of her childhood in Moscow”. She completed other theater roles with the landlady in August Strindberg's Rausch and with her grandmother in Molières Tartuffe .

In addition, after the First World War, Luise Hohorst also took on one or the other silent film role from small Munich production companies. Also in Bavaria films of the 1930s and early 1940s you could see the resident of Munich every now and then. In the middle of World War II, she gradually withdrew from acting; the reason for this was the increasing weakness of her eyes and an injury from an Allied bombing attack, which she barely survived in a train car in 1943. Her right leg had to be amputated. She then devoted herself to training young actors and writing poetry. She had a close friendship with the writer Ricarda Huch . Most recently she made a name for herself as a translator of Russian poetry into German. Luise Hohorst died at the age of 65 in Munich, where she worked for decades.

Filmography

  • 1920: The gypsy's love stems from ... (involvement uncertain)
  • 1924: two children
  • 1927: Beautiful women's toys
  • 1936: A wedding dream
  • 1936: The night with the Kaiser
  • 1939: Liberated hands
  • 1940: The Fraulein von Barnhelm
  • 1940: The girl from Fanö
  • 1943: The black robe

literature

  • Süddeutsche Zeitung , issue No. 25/1950. Obituary by Rudolf Bach
  • German stage yearbook. 59th year 1951, publisher. from the Cooperative of German Stage Members. Obituary p. 83.
  • Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, first volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953, p. 829
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 699.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b German Stage Yearbook 1951, p. 83
personal data
SURNAME Hohorst, Luise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russia
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1950
Place of death Munich , Germany