Maria Jacobini

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Maria Jacobini

Maria Jacobini (born February 17, 1890 in Rome ; † November 20, 1944 there ) was an Italian actress in domestic and German film.

Live and act

Maria Jacobini, who was one of the most celebrated silent film divas in her country in the 10s and 20s , became the granddaughter of the Cardinal and State Secretary of Pope Leo XIII. , Lodovico Jacobini , born. She learned her artistic craft at the Accademia dell'Arte Drammatica in her hometown of Rome. In 1910 Maria Jacobini made her film debut. Jacobini played famous female characters from contemporary history such as Lucrezia Borgia , Beatrice Cenci or Jeanne d'Arc in the films of the same name, but also appeared in melodramas and comedies. Her partner Gennaro Righelli directed it several times . Her gesture was expansive and expressive, her characters sometimes melancholy and resigned to fate (“Come le foglie”), sometimes exuberantly happy (“Addio giovinezza!”).

At the turn of the year 1922/23, Maria Jacobini went to Berlin with Righelli, where she made a plethora of productions over the next five years, often films with melodramatic content. She was only able to make her first German film in her own production (Maria Jacobini-Film GmbH). After her temporary return to Rome, Jacobini continued her German film work in 1926. Her last work in Berlin was "at the same time her most rewarding": Fedor Ozep's version of Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse . In it she played Lisa Protasova. In 1929 Maria Jacobini went to France for a film guest appearance, where Julien Duvivier cast her in the title role in " Irene Rysbergue's great love " - a married woman from French society who was neglected by her husband. Then she returned to Rome.

With the beginning of the sound film age, the Italian, who barely spoke the German language, only shot in Cinecittà , but without being able to follow up on her greatest successes. On the side, from 1937 to 1943, she also taught the art of speaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia . Alida Valli and Clara Calamai were among her students . Maria Jacobini's sister Diomira Jacobini (1899–1959) also worked as an actress.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1910: Lucrezia Borgia
  • 1910: Beatrice Cenci
  • 1911: L'ultimo amplesso
  • 1912: La fuggitiva
  • 1912: Vampe de gelosia
  • 1913: L'erede di Jago
  • 1913: In hoc signo vinces
  • 1913: Giovanna d'Arco
  • 1914: Capriccio di gran signore
  • 1914: Il film rivelatore
  • 1914: La busta nera
  • 1915: Per non morire
  • 1915: I cavalieri moderni
  • 1915: La raffica
  • 1916: La corsara
  • 1916: Come le foglie
  • 1916: Tragico convegno
  • 1916: Articolo IV
  • 1917: Resurrezione
  • 1917: Sfinge
  • 1917: La signora Arlecchino
  • 1918: Il filo della vita
  • 1918: Addio giovinezza!
  • 1918: L'emigrata
  • 1919: Anima tormentata
  • 1919: La vergine folle
  • 1920: Cainà
  • 1920: La casa di vetro
  • 1921: Il richiamo
  • 1921: Amore Rosso
  • 1921: Il viaggio
  • 1921: La preda
  • 1922: Glanco
  • 1922: L'incognita
  • 1923: Bohème
  • 1924: Taxless
  • 1924: The doll queen
  • 1924: Orient
  • 1925: The bastard
  • 1926: Father, I accuse you! (Beatrice Cenci)
  • 1926: The Frauengasse in Algiers
  • 1927: Carnival of Life (Il carnevale di Venezia)
  • 1927: bigamy
  • 1928: The case of the public prosecutor M
  • 1928: Five anxious days
  • 1928: Villa Falconieri
  • 1928: mischief of love
  • 1928: Ariadne in the Hoppegarten
  • 1929: The living corpse
  • 1929: Irene Rysbergue's great love (Maman Colibri)
  • 1930: Perchè no?
  • 1931: La scala
  • 1931: La stella del cinema
  • 1934: Paraninfo
  • 1937: Who is as happy as me (Chi è più felice di me?)
  • 1938: Three women around Verdi (also Italian original verse: Giuseppe Verdi)
  • 1939: L'educande di Saint-Cyr
  • 1940: Melody of love (Melodie eterne)
  • 1941: L'attore scomparso
  • 1942: Via delle cinque lune
  • 1942: La danza del fuoco
  • 1942: La signorina
  • 1943: Tempesta sul golfo
  • 1943: La donna della montagna

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 179.

Web links

Commons : Maria Jacobini  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other sources give the year 1892.
  2. ↑ Kelly: The film's great personal dictionary. 2001, p. 179.
  3. ↑ Kelly: The film's great personal dictionary. 2001, p. 179.
personal data
SURNAME Jacobini, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress in domestic and German films
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1944
Place of death Rome , Italy