Luli von Bodenhausen

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Julie "Luli" Dorothea von Bodenhausen , in the German-language film and theater Luli von Hohenberg , in the English-language film Luli D'Este (born November 7, 1902 in Heidelberg ; † July 7, 1951 in New York ) was a German-American actress and author.

Family background

Luli von Bodenhausen came from the German noble family Bodenhausen . She was the daughter of the art historian and Krupp director Eberhard von Bodenhausen-Degener (1868–1918) and his wife, Dorothea Elisabeth Eva Marie nee. Countess of Degenfeld-Schonburg . As a child, she spent a long time at Neubeu Castle in Upper Bavaria. On August 15, 1922, she married Baron Gottfried von Meyern-Hohenberg there (divorced in 1930). Her second husband was the designer Albrecht Graf von Goertz , whom she married in New York in 1940 (divorce: 1942). Luli von Bodenhausen made the acquaintance of the philosopher and sociologist Theodor W. Adorno and his wife Gretel in California in 1943 . As Adorno's letters to his parents show, Luli von Bodenhausen made a deep impression on him because of her personality. On October 15, 1944, Luli von Bodenhausen married the American inventor Paul Kollsman in California . 1949 appeared to her in England autobiographical embossed novel " Come, take my hand ", in Germany in 1951 under the title " You're wonderful ... " was published.

Career in theater and film

Luli von Hohenberg received her artistic training in Berlin from Lucie Höflich in the early twenties . At a social occasion, she met Max Reinhardt , who signed the noble young lady to the German Theater, which he directed. In the years to come, Luli von Hohenberg could be seen on a wide variety of stages in Germany and Austria, such as the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm, the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Kurtheater von Bad Ischl under the direction of Josef Jarnos , as well as the Viennese venues Renaissance stage, Volkstheater and finally also the Burgtheater.

Walter Reisch brought her in spring 1936 for his production of Silhouetten zum Film and gave her her first German-language screen role there. Immediately afterwards she took part in the film Opernring (which premiered in front of Silhouettes ) , where Luli von Hohenberg appeared alongside Jan Kiepura . She then took on two leading roles in B-Pictures in Hollywood, which led her to the side of Edward G. Robinson and John Boles . Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, the artist returned home to Germany to take on the leading or title role of Ursula von Tweel in the Prague crime film Suspicion of Ursula . In the same year Luli von Hohenberg managed to emigrate to the United States, where she received a multi-year film contract from Columbia Pictures in Hollywood in 1940, now under the pseudonym "Luli D'Este" . However, her film roles in the USA were completely insignificant and had no effect, and so the actress withdrew into private life after only five appearances in front of American cameras in 1940/41.

Filmography

  • 1932: My Friend the King, directed by Michael Powell , country: Great Britain
  • 1936: Silhouettes , directed by Lotte Reiniger , Walter Reisch , Country: Austria
  • 1936: Opernring, director: Carmine Gallone , country: Austria
  • 1937: She married an artist, directed by Marion Gering, country: USA
  • 1939: Suspicion of Ursula, director: Karl Heinz Martin , country: Germany
  • 1940: Ski Patrol, Director: Lew Landers, Country: USA
  • 1940: South to Karanga, Director: Harold D. Schuster, Country: USA
  • 1940: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, Director: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor, Country: USA
  • 1941: Arabs, Bedouins and Fraudsters (Outlaws of the Desert)

Work as a writer

  • Kollsman, Luli: You are wonderful ... Translated from the American by Tanja von Winterfeldt. Stuttgart (Schuler-Verlag), 1951.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Theodor W. Adorno Archive (Ed.): Adorno. A picture monograph. Frankfurt am Main, 2003, pages 182-186.
  2. ^ Luli von Hohenberg about himself , in: Neuigkeits-Welt-Blatt, edition of October 9, 1936, page 8

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literature

  • Theodor W. Adorno Archive (Ed.): Adorno. A picture monograph. Frankfurt am Main, 2003, ISBN 3-518-58382-4 , pp. 182-186
personal data
SURNAME Bodenhausen, Luli from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodenhausen, Julie Dorothea von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American actress and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1951
Place of death new York