Margarete von Bukovics

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Margarete von Bukovics , born as Margarete Geiringer , (born March 14, 1892 in Vienna ; † February 28, 1970 ibid) was an Austrian theater actress .

Life

Margarete von Bukovics, known as "Gretl" for short in the family circle, was born as the daughter of the Austrian song master and music writer Gustav Geiringer (1856–1946) and his wife, the theater actress Christine von Bukovics (1867–1937), in Altlerchenfeld in Vienna's VII district ( New building ) born. She was the older sister of actress Adrienne Gessner . In the years 1911–13 the sisters were in contact with the famous tenor Enrico Caruso , who was a guest in her father's house during his opera performances in Vienna and made music with him.

Margarete von Bukovics received private acting lessons and singing lessons at an early age. However, her voice was not enough for a career as a stage singer. As a stage name she chose Bukovics , after her mother's maiden name. In 1911 Margarete von Bukovics was engaged as an actress at the Brno City Theater for a year , where she made her debut in Hermann Bahr's play The Children in September 1911 . In the 1911/12 season she also played Wendla in Spring Awakening .

From 1912 she was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Deutsches Volkstheater Vienna . She made her debut there in June 1912. She embodied the role of the “naive” and “sentimental” with an artistic talent “more for bitter than sweet roles”. She mastered a broad repertoire, which included the classics (Shakespeare, Lessing, Kleist), contemporary pieces from the turn of the century and the modern age (Schnitzler, Bahr, Ibsen), as well as numerous comedies, pranks and comedies. She played u. a. Franziska in Minna von Barnhelm , the embroiderer Thecla in Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt (including the 1911/12 season and 1912/13 season), Käthchen von Heilbronn (1913/14 season), Katharina in Der Ruf des Lebens (1914 season / 15), niece Betty von Hohenegg in the comedy Im bunt Rock by Franz von Schönthan (1914/15 season), Elise in Der Geizige (1916/17 season) and Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (1916/17 season, as Partner of Carl Goetz ). She also appeared in the plays Alt-Heidelberg and Die Wildente , as well as u. a. in plays by Franz Molnár (as Elsa in Der Teufel , 1916/17 season), Hermann Bahr ( Der Star , 1913/14 season), Hermann Sudermann ( flower boat ) and several times in works by the playwright Hans Müller (brother of Ernst Lothar , disposition , The lovely Adrian ).

In the 1913/14 season she performed at the Kgl. German State Theater in Prague . In the 1916/17 season she appeared as a guest at the Stadttheater Baden. In the 1918/19 season she played Anna in the comedy Die Kinder by Hermann Bahr at the Wiener Kammerspiele . From April 1920 she performed at the Apollo Theater in Vienna . In the 1921/22 season she was seen at the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater Berlin as Bianca in Schnitzler's play Anatol alongside Anton Edthofer and Hermann Thimig .

From autumn 1923 Margarete von Bukovics performed again in Vienna; After her return from Berlin she first played in the Raimundtheater alongside Leopoldine Konstantin in the first performance of Molnár's play Fasching . With this production she also made a guest appearance at the Schauspielhaus Graz in November 1923 . In March 1924 she made a guest appearance at the “Komödienhaus Wien”. In May 1924 she appeared at the Vienna Volkstheater as a guest in the role of Thea in the Sudermann play Flower Boat . In the 1924/25 season she played at the “Neue Wiener Bühne” and at the “Modern Theater Wien”. In the 1926/27 season she was on tour with the ensemble of the “Modern Theater Vienna” (including Linz , Baden near Vienna ). In the 1927/28 season she was engaged at the Bielitz City Theater. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Vienna Volkstheater, Margarete von Bukovics was invited, together with her mother and other artists who had “worked in an excellent way at the Volkstheater”, to appear on stage in November 1929 in the social image of Nestroy -Posses Der Verschwender . In the 1932/33 season she played at the Theater in der Josefstadt under the direction of Otto Preminger , and at the side of her sister Adrienne Gessner in the play Eine himmlische Frau by Johannes von Vaszary . In the 1934/35 season she was Frau Dufin in the new production of the play A Woman Lies by Ladislas Fodor . In 1936 she worked at the Theater in der Josefstadt in the Austrian premiere of the play The First Spring Day by Dodie Smith .

After the Second World War , Margarete von Bukovics, mostly under the name Grete Bukovics, returned (as a guest) to the Theater in der Josefstadt (including the 1946/47 season in Once in the Life of William Saroyan , 1952/53 season as Miss von Bruun in turmoil in the women's pen of Axel Breidahl ), at the Vienna Volkstheater (1949, in Shaws Pygmalion ) and at the Vienna Citizens' Theater (season 1951/52, in Women in New York by Clare Boothe ). In the 1946/47 season she played the role of Madame de Sotenville in the Molière comedy George Dandin in the Small House of the Theater in der Josefstadt . In the 1947/48 season she took over the landlady of the convalescent home in Valentin Katajew's play Ein Ruhetag at the short-term “New Playhouse Meidling” . In August 1950 she appeared at the Bregenz Festival as the nanny Anne-Marie in Nora by Henrik Ibsen . In 1955 she took on the role of Amy in the play Kean ( Alexandre Dumas / Jean-Paul Sartre ) at the Theater in der Josefstadt . In the season 1956/57 she appeared there as Anna Semjonowna (Islaew's mother) in A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev . In addition, she had theater engagements in Vienna in the 1950s at the Kleiner Theater im Konzerthaus (1954/55, in John Van Druten's The Forgotten Sky with Paul Barnay as a partner) and at the Theater der Courage .

Under the name of Grete Bukovics, she took on leading roles in two silent films in the early days of the film , each directed by Edmund Loewe : Don Juan (1919) and Elixirs of the Devil (1920). Towards the end of her career in the 1960s, she worked occasionally for Austrian television (ORF).

From the 1930s onwards, Bukovics occasionally worked as a radio play speaker .

Private

Margarete von Bukovics married the Austrian actor Anton Edthofer in February 1919 . For Edthofer it was the second marriage. She went with him to Berlin in the early 1920s , after Edthofer had been signed to the German theater there. In Berlin she continued to play theater occasionally, but faced stiff competition in her role. The marriage was divorced in 1924 after a previous settlement agreement between the spouses. Edthofer married again in June 1925. Edthofer and von Bukovics remained on friendly terms with each other and had regular social contacts with their new life partners - Edthofer was now in a relationship with Helene Thimig .

From November 1944 to the beginning of April 1945 Margarete von Bukovics was imprisoned by the Gestapo in the prison on Landesgerichtstrasse for statements against the military ("statements that degrade the military force") , where she was released when the Russian army marched in. According to different statements from her sister Adrienne Gessner, Margarete von Bukovics was imprisoned in the Rossau barracks , where she managed to escape together with a fellow sufferer before the surrender.

Filmography

  • 1919: Don Juan
  • 1920: elixirs of the devil
  • 1938: The restless girls
  • 1968: The Bachelor's Death (TV Movie)
  • 1969: Leni (TV movie)

Literature and Sources

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Name at birth: Margarete Geiringer. Married name: Margarete Bukovics-Edthofer. MvB appeared under different names in the course of her career: Margarete von Bukovics, Grete von Bukovics, Margarete Bukovics, Margarete Bukovics-Edthofer, Grete Bukovics-Edthofer, occasionally also as Marguerite Bukovics. After the Second World War as Grete Bukovics and Gretl Bukovics. The spelling Margarethe is also occasionally found.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Adrienne Gessner : I would like to say something good ... memories. Amalthea Verlag Vienna / Munich 1985. ISBN 3-85002-200-5 .
  3. ^ Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical Index for Theater, Dance and Music / Biographical Index for Theater, Dance and Music . Berlin publishing house. Arno Spitz GmbH. 1997. Page 262. ISBN 978-3-87061-479-9
  4. ^ Karin Nusko : Adrienne Gessner . In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 1017-1018.
  5. ↑ Theater, Art and Literature . In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt of September 4, 1911. Page 9. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  6. ↑ Theater and Art . Performance review. In: Deutsches Südmährerblatt of April 19, 1912. Page 7. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  7. ↑ a b THE VIENNA “PEOPLE THEATER” 1889–1966 . Chapter: DEVELOPMENT AND FLOWERING TIME OF THE ENSEMBLE. THE SECOND DIRECTORATE. ADOLF WEISSE . Page 243–247. In: Mask and Kothurn. International contributions to theater, film and media studies . Volume 13, Issue 4. Pages 243-252. December 1967. doi : 10.7767 / muk.1967.13.4.243 (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
  8. ↑ Theater, Art and Literature . In: Deutsches Volksblatt of May 30, 1912. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  9. ^ Karl Glossy : Forty Years of the German People's Theater. A contribution to German theater history . Vienna 1929. Page 282. Verlag des Deutschen Volkstheater Wien. (Excerpts from Google Books ). Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  10. ^ Adolf Weisse : Our first ensemble . In: Neues Wiener Journal of March 15, 1931. Page 18. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  11. ↑ Theater News . Performance review. In: Die Neue Zeitung of February 2, 1913. Page 4. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  12. ↑ Theater and Art . Preliminary report. In: Illustrierte Kronenzeitung of August 12, 1913. Page 12. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  13. ↑ Renate Wagner / Brigitte Vacha: Wiener Schnitzler performances 1891-1970. (= Studies on the art of the nineteenth century). Volume 17. Prestel Verlag Munich 1971. Page 108.
  14. ↑ In a colorful skirt . Cast lists. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  15. ↑ In a colorful skirt . Occupation. In: Neues Wiener Journal from September 11, 1914. Page 10. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  16. ↑ Theater and Art . Preliminary report. In: Oesterreichische Volkszeitung of March 23, 1917. Page 6. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  17. ↑ The Taming of the Shrew . Occupation. In: Deutsches Volksblatt of February 23, 2017. Page 9. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  18. ↑ Mind . Occupation. In: Prager Tagblatt, March 1, 1914. Page 14. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  19. ↑ Charity performance . In: Badener Zeitung, October 25, 1916. Page 2. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  20. ↑ Theater and Art . Performance review. In: Wiener Illustrierte Zeitung of December 1, 1918. Page 138. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  21. ↑ Theater and Art . In: Deutsches Volksblatt of March 30, 1920. Page 7. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  22. ↑ Theater and Variety . Performance review. In. The interesting sheet no. 16 from April 15, 1920. Page 7. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  23. ^ Carl von Ossietzky : Kammerspiele "Anatol" . Performance review. In: Berliner Volkszeitung from January 7, 1922. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  24. ↑ Kikeriki in the theater . In: Kikeriki, October 28, 1923. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  25. ↑ Theater and Art . In: Neues Wiener Journal from March 27, 1924. Page 30. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  26. ↑ Theater and Art . In: Neues Wiener Journal from May 28, 1924. Page 10. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  27. ↑ Theater and Art . In: Neues Wiener Journal of October 27, 1927. Page 12. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  28. ↑ From the federal theaters . In: Wiener Zeitung from November 15, 1929. Page 9. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  29. ↑ A HEAVENLY WOMAN . Occupation. Performance archive Theater in der Josefstadt 1923/1924 - 1997/1998. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  30. ↑ A WOMAN LIES . Occupation. Performance archive Theater in der Josefstadt 1923/1924 - 1997/1998. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
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  32. ↑ WOMEN IN NEW YORK . Occupation. Performance archive Theater in der Josefstadt 1923/1924 - 1997/1998. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
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  35. ^ A cheerful history of literature . Performance review. In: Wiener Kurier of February 27, 1947. Page 3. Accessed June 30, 2018.
  36. ^ Katajew premiere in Meidling . Performance review. In: Wiener Kurier of December 5, 1947. Page 3. Accessed June 30, 2018.
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  41. ↑ Broadcast Games of the Week . In: Radio Vienna . 9th year, issue 17, page 27 (with photo by Grete Bukovics). Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  42. ↑ The Bride of Bersagliere . Production details. First broadcast on ORF 1961. Manuscript archive in the Funk Documentation Archive. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  43. ↑ a b Margarethe Geiringer . Vienna Tourist Guide. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  44. ↑ Ernst Lothar's estate . Vienna library in the town hall. Handwriting collection. Page 121.Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  45. ↑ Anton Edthofer got married . In: Neues Wiener Journal from June 6, 1925. Page 10. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
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  47. ^ Dagmar Heißler : Ernst Lothar: writer, critic, theater-maker . Böhlau Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016. Page 243. ISBN 978-3-205-20145-8
  48. ^ "Don Juan" (feature film) ( Memento from July 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Production details. Mozarteum Foundation .
  49. ↑ The Bachelor's Death . Production details. Arthur Schnitzler Archive of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Retrieved June 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Bukovics, Margarete von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geiringer, Margarete (maiden name); Bukovics-Edthofer, Margarete (married name); Bukovics, Grete von; Bukovics, Margarete; Bukovics, Grete; Bukovics, Gretl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1970
Place of death Vienna