Maria Byk

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Maria Byk , born Annemarie Albertine Böck , bourgeois Annemarie Haschkowetz (born February 12, 1904 in Munich ; † April 22, 1949 there ) was a German stage and film actress .

Live and act

Theater and film

Maria Byk received her artistic training at the Falckenberg School in her hometown Munich. Subsequently (1925) she brought artistic director Otto Falckenberg to the Münchner Kammerspiele , which he directed , where Maria Byk was to work as a member of the ensemble for the next 13 years. Falckenberg should have called her "the most ambitious and gifted of all naive people". During this time Byk played among others Gertrud in Max Mell's “ Game of the German Ahnen ”, Clare in Gerhart Hauptmann's “ Dorothea Angermann ” and Gretchen in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Urfaust . After 1938 she was no longer permanently employed at any house. During her time at the theater in Munich, the artist was also seen in some hardly significant cinema productions - her debut in 1929 with a tiny role at the side of Karl Valentin in the late silent film Der Sonderling , then, in early talkies, several times with daughter roles in local stories and rural melodramas.

Private

Maria Byk married the theater actor and director Julius Gellner in 1925 . On February 26, 1926 their daughter Johanna Gellner was born. However, this marriage only lasted two years. Then Maria Byk was in a relationship with the director Kurt Reiss . On March 30, 1936, Byk married his professional colleague Ferdinand Marian , who, thanks to his participation in the Nazi propaganda film Jud Süss 1940, was to achieve lasting film “fame”. In a film about this, Jud Suess - film without conscience , played Martina Gedeck Maria Byk, which, however, was made there (supposedly for artistic reasons) to the half-Jewish "Anna Marian" and had to suffer a completely invented concentration camp death. In 1948, Maria Byk testified in his favor in the Hamburg trial against “ Jud Süß ” director Veit Harlan . The following year, the former actress drowned herself with suicidal intent. Maria Byk was laid to rest at her husband's side in Munich's northern cemetery, at 130 Ungererstrasse.

Filmography (complete)

  • 1929: The eccentric
  • 1933: The sinful court
  • 1934: The shot at the Nebelhorn
  • 1934: The women from Tannhof
  • 1935: He knows what he wants
  • 1935: The fight with the dragon

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, first volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953, p. 707
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 222.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth according to the gravestone of the Marian couple's communal grave ; Reichsfilmkammerakte, Glenzdorf and Kosch say 1906
  2. ↑ several online sources name Hamburg
  3. ↑ Kosch: Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, first volume, p. 707
personal data
SURNAME Byk, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böck, Annemarie Albertine (maiden name); Haschkowetz, Annemarie (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress on stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1949
Place of death Munich