Margot Werner

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Margot Werner on the TV show Lafer! Lights! Delicious! , 2009

Margot Werner (born December 8, 1937 in Salzburg ; † July 1, 2012 in Munich ) was an Austrian ballet dancer and chanson singer .

Life

As the daughter of a businessman and a pianist, Margot Werner grew up in Salzburg and graduated from secondary school with the Ursulines . She had a close relationship with her dance colleague Heinz Bosl . Her first marriage was to the actor Peter Pasetti . Since 1978 she was married to the businessman Jochen Litt, whose hotel in Tyrol she supported financially until his bankruptcy in 2005.

Ballet career

Margot Werner received her first ballet lessons at the age of three. She completed classical dance training at the Salzburg State Theater and with Friderica Derra de Moroda . At the age of 17 she was engaged at the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich, where she became a dancer within three years. Since 1959 she was a soloist. There has been joint work with choreographers such as John Cranko and John Neumeier . She danced in ballets like Giselle , The Green Table by Kurt Jooss . Until 1975 she often performed with Heinz Bosl , after whose death she became involved with the Heinz Bosl Foundation together with Konstanze Vernon .

Chanson and show

The composer Bert Grund composed three songs for Margot Werner in 1972, with which she started a second career, in which Abi Ofarim was also an essential sponsor. In 1972 she sang in the Konzerthaussaal in Vienna with Peter Kreuder . This was followed by his own television show entitled Von Margot bis Montag (director: Peter Hajek , guests: Klaus Kinski , Heinz Bosl and others), appearances in the casino in Travemünde and, from November 1973 to March 1974, a guest appearance at the Munich Lach- und Schießgesellschaft . Since 1975 Werner has appeared in numerous television shows as a dancer, singer and entertainer, for example with Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff in Feuerabend , with Max Greger or Roberto Blanco , in Dalli Dalli and Amlauf Band . In 1976 she went on tour in Germany with the program Wasser, Feuer, Luft und Erde , further tours followed. In 1977 she had one of her greatest successes with the song So ein Mann . Numerous appearances at home and abroad with her musical companion Max Greger Jr. followed. From 1986 she appeared almost annually in the Stuttgart Renitenztheater . A highlight of her career as an entertainer was the appearance at the New York Metropolitan Opera Ball . With Movie Classics she celebrated successes in 1994 in the Munich Philharmonic and the Stuttgart Liederhalle .

Acting career

As an actress, Margot Werner first appeared on the stage of the Munich Residence Theater as Jenny in Brecht's Threepenny Opera . This was followed by television productions such as Insel der Krebse , Lieb Vaterland magst sein (based on the novel by Johannes Mario Simmel , 1976), the operetta Im Weißen Rößl am Wolfgangsee with Helmuth Lohner (1979), the television series Liebt this Earth (1984) and the Tatort - Episode The Archives (1986).

death

On July 1, 2012, Margot Werner died by suicide . The urn was buried in silence and in the closest family circle at the municipal cemetery in Salzburg .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Such a man
  DE 47 04/04/1977 (1 week)
  • And the day comes for everyone (LP, 1974)
  • My life is like a dance / Just a picture (1975)
  • Water, Fire, Air and Earth (LP, 1976)
  • Either way is life / some dreams don't come true (1976)
  • That Can Only Be Love (1976)
  • Such a Man (1977)
  • You're Too Hot / Stay That Little Hour Till Morning (1977)
  • Just a Woman (LP, 1977)
  • I haven't regretted anything in life (LP, 1978)
  • Hang in with me (LP, 1980)
  • Tanz auf dem Vulkan (Seasons) / You only live once in the world (German original recording of 9 to 5 (Morning Train)) (1981)
  • ... because I am me (LP, 1983)
  • Dream flights (LP, 1985)
  • Lilly Marlen (1986)
  • Never Forget My Love from Tatort Das Archiv (1986)
  • Songs with ... Margot Werner (double LP)
  • Stargala / Margot Werner (double LP)
  • Double star: Such a man /… and not a bit wise, Margot Werner & Curd Jürgens
  • Margot Werner in gold
  • My greatest successes
  • I haven't regretted anything in life

More publishments:

  • Show me the way into your heart
  • I'm set for love from head to toe
  • This night knows no taboo / I know I can love this way ... (1980)
  • Movieclassics (1994)
  • Life (1996)

To mark her 50th anniversary on the stage, a CD was released in 2007 with her greatest successes and two newly produced titles.

Fonts

  • ... and the day will come for everyone. (Autobiography) Herbig, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7766-1196-0 .
    • "
      Reviewed " new edition under the title:       Dream Flights. From ballet to singing. Herbig, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7766-1396-3 .
    • (unchanged) licensed edition of the "reviewed" new edition:
      Traumflug. From ballet to singing. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-548-20967-X .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stern.de: "Dancer and entertainer Margot Werner is dead" ( Memento from July 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 16, 2012
  2. ↑ Manuel Brug: The tragic end of the show star Margot Werner. In: Welt Online , July 3, 2012.
  3. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Margot Werner
  4. ↑ Charts DE
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Margot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ballet artist and chanson singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2012
Place of death Munich