Margo Lion

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Margo Lion (born February 28, 1899 in Constantinople , † February 25, 1989 in Paris ; born Marguerite Hélène Constantine Barbe Elisabeth Lion ) was a French diseuse and actress .

Life

Margo Lion came to Berlin with her father, a French businessman, after the First World War. The journalist, film and cabaret critic Paul Marcus, known under the pseudonym PEM, says that she met the resident poet of Trude Hesterberg's cabaret “Die Wilde Bühne” - Marcellus Schiffer - in a fashion salon. A detail that was carried on during her career in cabaret and also in secondary literature. In her memoirs, Trude Hesterberg remembers how her future husband Lions brought her to her stage and she was there in her famous costume - tight, long black silk dress, hair combed back strictly, pale make-up, black rimmed eyes and black make-up mouth - auditioned (she also became famous in this costume through the photography of society photographer Frieda Riess ). Lion seems to have made her debut in May 1923 to Rosa Valetti's “Comedia Valetti”, but it became famous with the chanson “Die Linie der Mode”, written by Marcellus Schiffer and set to music by Mischa Spoliansky , which she sang in September 1923 "Wild Stage" was there.

Lion continued her career with an image of the “grotesque new woman” on other cabaret stages (including in Friedrich Hollaender's “ Schall und Rauch ”, Paul Schneider-Duncker's “The Roland of Berlin” and the “ Cabaret of the Comedians ”) and, above all, in cabaret revues (Among other things in Schiffers and Paul Strasser's “Die industrious Leserin” [1926], Hollaender and Schiffer's “Hetärenverbindungen” [1926] and “Was they want” [1927], Rudolf Nelson's “Der Rote Faden” [1930] and “Quick” [ 1930, with music by F. Hollaender and M. Schiffer]). She was particularly successful with Marcellus Schiffers and Mischa Spoliansky's cabaret revue “ Es ist in der Luft ”, which premiered on May 15, 1928 in the Berlin “Komödie”. Not only her chanson "When the best friend with the best friend", which she gave together with Marlene Dietrich and Oskar Karlweis , and parodied a ménage à trois, became a hit.

In 1931 she appeared as Jenny in the French version of the Threepenny Opera by G. W. Pabst . Between 1926 and 1932 Margo Lion was also in ten feature films, including a. seen in “ Never Again Love ” (1931) by Anatole Litvak. After Schiffer's suicide in 1932 and the National Socialists seized power in 1933, she returned to Paris.

There she made a name for herself as a Brecht interpreter and worked in French films. After the Second World War, she was able to successfully continue her career as a singer and actress. On September 7, 1977 she appeared again in Berlin at the Renaissance Theater as part of the Berliner Festwochen , accompanied by Mischa Spoliansky on the piano.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1926: The adventures of a ten-mark note
  • 1931: I'm going out and you stay there
  • 1931: never again love
  • 1931: The big attraction
  • 1931: The suitcase of Mr. OF
  • 1931: 24 hours from a woman's life
  • 1932: Golden blonde girl, I give you my heart
  • 1932: The lucky cylinder
  • 1932: The Song of a Night
  • 1933: hands out of the dark
  • 1933: Du haut en bas
  • 1935: Company of the Lost ( La bandera )
  • 1937: Alibi ( L'Alibi )
  • 1939: Jeunes filles en détresse
  • 1946: As long as I live ( Tant que je vivrai )
  • 1946: The blind angel ( La foire aux chimères )
  • 1946: Martin Roumagnac
  • 1947: One night in Tabarin ( Une nuit à Tabarin )
  • 1950: Your path is determined for you ( Quai de Grenelle )
  • 1951: dreamy days
  • 1953: Love ends at dawn ( Les amours finissent à l'aube )
  • 1954: The last stage ( Le grand jeu )
  • 1954: Miss Nitouche ( Mam'zelle Nitouche )
  • 1959: The predator settles accounts ( Le fauve est lâché )
  • 1959: Katja, the uncrowned Empress ( Katia )
  • 1960: The sacrifice of a nun ( Le dialogue des Carmélites )
  • 1961: Lola, the girl from the harbor ( Lola )
  • 1964: Nick Carter beats it all together ( Nick Carter va tout casser )
  • 1964: FBI Agent Cooper - The Tex Case ( Coplan prend des risques )
  • 1966: Paris is worth a trip
  • 1976: Dr. med. Françoise Gailland ( Docteur Françoise Gailland )

literature

  • Klaus Budzinski, Reinhard Hippen: Metzler Cabaret Lexicon. Metzler in connection with the German cabaret archive, Stuttgart / Weimar 1996.
  • Sandra Danielczyk: Diseusen in the Weimar Republic. Image constructions in cabaret using the example of Margo Lion and Blandine Ebinger (= texts on popular music 9), Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-3835-6 .
  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 314 f., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PEM, cit. after Rudolf Hösch: cabaret from yesterday. Based on contemporary reports, reviews and memories . tape 1: 1900-1933 . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1969, p. 198 .
  2. ^ Trude Hesterberg: What else I wanted to say ... Berlin, Henschelverlag 1971, p. 116 .
  3. ^ Sandra Danielczyk: Diseusen in the Weimar Republic. Image constructions in cabaret using the example of Margo Lion and Blandine Ebinger . transcript, Bielefeld 2017.
  4. ^ German Historical Museum Berlin, ibid.
personal data
SURNAME Lion, Margo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lion, Marguerite Hélène Constantine Barbe Elisabeth (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diseuse and actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1989
Place of death Paris