Luise del Zopp

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Louise Lingg in 1896

Luise del Zopp , also Louise Lingg , Luise Lingg and Luise del Zopp-Lingg (born June 16, 1871 as Aloisia Theresia Johanna Luksch in Brno , Austria-Hungary ; † after 1950 ) was an Austrian-born German singer , actress and screenwriter in Germany 1910s film.

Life

Aloisia Theresia Johanna Luksch, who was born in 1892, received artistic training from Fritz Krejzi in her hometown of Brno. In Brno she began her professional career as a singer under the name Louise Lingg in the 1894/95 season and also worked as a volunteer at the Brno City Theater. Further engagements took Lingg as the first operetta singer to Vienna , Munich , where she received further training from Hans Schinkel, and Berlin and as an actress at the Stadttheater von Troppau . Between 1898 and 1900 Lingg was a member of the Gärtnerplatztheater ensemble in Munich. Obligations followed in the Bohemian border area, to Karlsbad and Teplitz-Schönau . From 1903 to 1905 Louise Lingg is verifiable at the Theater an der Wien , then (1906) she worked in Salzburg and went on guest tours (the so-called bookbinder tour, which took her to Breslau , Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main ).

The young L (o) uise Lingg was initially employed in the field of the youthful-dramatic opera singer. Her repertoire of roles included the Saffi, Rosalinde, Laura, Mimosa, Natalitza, Suza, Nedda, Santuzza, Leonore, Elsa, Pamina, Friquet as well as the Olympia, Giulietta and Antonia in Hoffmann's stories . The artist also participated in parodies, for example with Elisabeth (Tannhauser parody) and Gretchen (Faust parody). Luise Lingg herself described her repertoire as "very large".

From 1909 the singer and actress was based in Berlin, but from the following year she concentrated entirely on the work of a screenwriter on the until then little developed film. In addition, she remained active as an operetta singer until the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and went on guest tours. The film pioneer Oskar Messter hired her as a writer in 1910 and brought Luise del Zopp , who is now married to the actor and singer Rudolf del Zopp , together with the director Adolf Gärtner , like she was a film debutant. In 1911/12, this tandem produced an abundance of short feature films, in 1913 Luise del Zopp also worked several times with the silent film star and director Viggo Larsen as part of Treumann-Larsen-Film-Vertriebs-GmbH . Her script for the addressee died was rewarded with the first price in a competition of the production company Messter among 500 entries. The young Henny Porten landed one of her first major film successes in this gardener production. Luise del Zopp, who was enormously productive from 1910 to 1913, also worked as a dramaturge for many of these early silent films .

At the screening of the film, The War Song of the Rhine Army , which she wrote and directed by Larsen, at the Kant-Lichtspiele in Berlin-Charlottenburg , she performed live as a singer and performed the Marseillaise . At the beginning of the First World War she was committed to the producer Franz Vogel's Eiko-Film . In this late phase of her work as a screenwriter, Luise del Zopp worked closely with her husband Rudolf, who regularly directed these Eiko productions (1914/15). Occasionally she now appeared in front of the camera.

After 1915, Luise del Zopp largely disappeared from the public eye. After the death of her husband at the beginning of 1927, the forgotten artist got more and more into economic difficulties. She was dependent on financial support from the welfare organization and received further help from director colleague Gerhard Lamprecht , who is said to have paid her monthly rent of 52 RM. Immediately after the Second World War , when she was already seriously ill, she is said to have lived with an artist. Nevertheless, she probably still lived to see her 80th birthday, as a short entry was dedicated to this event in the German Stage Yearbook of 1952. Presumably Luise del Zopp died in the 1950s.

Filmography

as a screenwriter, unless otherwise stated

  • 1910: Friedel, the violinist
  • 1911: a misstep
  • 1911: The bad censorship
  • 1911: Forgotten in luck
  • 1911: Tragedy of a traitor
  • 1911: addressee died
  • 1911: The pilgrimage to Kevlaar
  • 1911: slave of love
  • 1911: Forgotten in luck
  • 1911: The bad censorship
  • 1911: The buried treasure
  • 1912: home
  • 1912: Outlawed
  • 1912: the white veil
  • 1912: A look into the abyss
  • 1912: The debt of others
  • 1912: The wedding of Valeni
  • 1912: Countess Water Lily
  • 1912: freedom or death
  • 1912: agonizing existence
  • 1913: an oath (also actress)
  • 1913: The war song of the Rhine Army
  • 1913: The circus devil
  • 1913: hereditary burden?
  • 1913: Subject unknown
  • 1913: We get divorced
  • 1914: cubit and sword
  • 1915: a gift of love
  • 1915: The Riddle of Sensenheim
  • 1915: The oyster pearl
  • 1915: He should be your master (also an actress)

literature

  • Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Berlin 1906, p. 194

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The presumptions, which can often be read, that she died immediately after the Second World War - the purely speculative year 1946 is mentioned several times - have not yet been substantiated and are extremely dubious. Rather, the German Stage Yearbook from 1952 (60th year, published by the Hamburg-based Cooperative of German Stage Members) reminds on page 63 of the completion of her 80th birthday on June 16, 1951. There you can read the following: Luise del Zopp, singer i. R., Berlin, 80 years old. Luise del Zopp, a singer of excellent quality, who older colleagues will surely remember from her time at the new operetta theater in Berlin, the Gärtnerplatz Theater in Munich and the Vienna Court Opera, shares the lot of so many old professional comrades today and lives in difficult economic circumstances.
  2. ↑ Spelling of the name according to Heinrich Hagemann: Fachlexikon der Deutschen Bühnenanghnen. Gabriele Hansch and Gerlinde Waz use the spelling “Kreyzcy” in their unpublished work, Filmpionierinnen in Deutschland
  3. ↑ The dates "1884" and "1887" given by Hansch and Waz in their biography del Zopps and taken over unchecked from various online sites (filmportal.de, film-zeit.de) - possibly originally typographical errors regarding the decade - are definitely and at first glance recognizably wrong. 1. Luise del Zopp, who allegedly was already working at the time, would have been only 13 or 16 years old. And 2. the German Stage Yearbook of 1895 shows a "Louise Lingg" in the name register, who was active as a singer in Brno at that time (season 1894/95). According to Hansch / Waz, however, she should have been engaged in Munich, Berlin or Troppau long ago with the relevant dates "1884" and "1887" 1894. The beginning of her artistic activity is confirmed in 1894/95 by the entry "Luise Lingg" in Hagemann's specialist lexicon of German theater staff. The biographies contained there (status from 1906) were based on the self-reports of the portrayed theater artists
  4. ↑ Specialized Lexicon of the German Stage Members, p. 194.
personal data
SURNAME Zopp, Luise del
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lingg, Louise; Lingg, Luise; Zopp-Lingg, Luise del (full name); Luksch, Aloisia Theresia Johanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German singer, actress, screenwriter and film dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH after 1950