Marie-Luise Cavallar von Grabensprung

Marie-Luise (Marianne) Cavallar of grave jump (* 22. April 1889 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † 20th December 1977 ibid , Austria ) was an Austrian reciter, writer, actress, professor, journalist, teacher at the conservatory and President of Association of women writers and artists.

biography

Marianne von Cavallar reciting on Radio Vienna (1931)

Marie-Luise von Cavallar was a versatile and important personality in the Viennese and Brno cultural scene, who was part of a network of women who were artistically active at the time, especially in the 1930s and late 1940s to the 1960s were considered prominent, but are now almost completely forgotten.

Von Cavallar played a variety of roles in the Viennese cultural scene. She was first successful as an actress, then as an acting teacher and reciter. She was also well known to the public as a broadcaster (including at RAVAG , the Rot-Weiß-Rot broadcaster and the West broadcaster group ) and as a journalist and writer of radio programs. She taught at the Conservatory for Music and Dramatic Art in Vienna, taught speech and lecturing art , among other things, and wrote several writings and poems, such as "Was Meine Sehnsucht sang" (1916) or "Kinderlieder" (1950–1951). Most of her work as a reciter took place in concerts and radio broadcasts. Marianne von Cavallar also wrote countless portraits, essays, radio plays and short stories.

Her career started in 1906/1907 at the City Theater in Brno . This was followed by an engagement at the Raimund Theater in Vienna for the 1907/1908 season. The following season she celebrated successes under her pseudonym (Maria Strathen) at the Stadttheater Salzburg , including as Klärchen in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's “Egmont”, as Luise in Schiller's “Kabale und Liebe”, as Hedwig in Ibsen's “Die Wildente” or as Julia in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". In 1909 a benefit performance by Ernst von Wildenbruchs , "Die Rabensteinerin", took place in their favor .

During the First World War she supported her father and worked as a nurse in a war aid hospital housed in the Technical University of Vienna . From 1919 she worked as a speech technology teacher at the Lutwak-Patonay Conservatory (today: Prayner Conservatory ). She also gave "melodramatic lectures" at the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Musikverein .

As the long-time president of the Association of Writers and Artists and Vice-President of the Association of Intellectual Creators Austria , she organized countless (literary) events and used her contacts in the Viennese cultural scene to make women's artistic work visible and to focus on it. Works by writers such as Käthe Braun-Prager and Hilda Bergmann or compositions by Hedwig Frank-Autherid were repeatedly found in the programs; if not presented by Cavallar herself, so often by her students, whom she also encouraged.

Prominent singers and other personalities, such as André Heller , Cissy Kraner , Josef Kainz , Bert Fortell , Hanns Obonya , Lona Dubois , Rosemarie Isopp , Peter Fichna, Dieter O. Holzinger , Martha Wallner , Hilde Sochor or Waltraut Haas , were taught by her. She is also said to have been friends with Gertrud Herzog-Hauser , Sigmund Lautenburg , Hans Nüchtern , Eduard Ludwig and Ferdinand Gregori .

She was also a member of the board of the Association of Austrian Writers and a member of the Grillparzer Society and the Federation of Austrian Women's Associations .

Marie-Luise von Cavallar died in 1977 at the age of 88 and was buried on December 30, 1977 in the Matzleinsdorfer Friedhof in Vienna . Part of the estate is in the Theater Museum, as well as individual materials such as letters in the Vienna Library in the City Hall and in the Austrian National Library .

family

She was married to Ferdinand Cavallar von Grabensprung . The marriage remained childless.

Works (selection)

Short stories and broadcasts

Partial estate in the theater museum. Selection:

• Lady Hester Stanhope. A Woman Without Fear (1947)
• Austrian Women's Poetry in Emigration, Part 1–2 (1947)
• Poet in a foreign country. K. Braun-Prager on the occasion of his 60th birthday (1948)
• An Austrian writer experiences America (1948)
• The lady in the tower. Archivist - a new job for women (1949)
• H. Bergmann. (From her lyrical work) (1949)

Recitations

• Klosterneuburg Abbey
• Salzburg walks
• Schnurps
• The red elf
• Raphael Donner
• The north wind
• How much it hit
• From happy hunting
• A cup of tea
• Mr. Hofrat
• The minstrel of God
• Mona Lisa smiles
• The toy dwarf
• As a guest at Windsor Castle
• Liesl's dream of an airplane
• Walk in Eton
• From the home of Maria Stuart

Awards

• Awarded the title of professor hc . for their achievements and their commitment, 1959.
• Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art : Awarded on September 9, 1972 and acceptance on October 15, 1972.
• Silver Merit of the State of Vienna : Takeover on November 13, 1970.

literature

• Cavallar, Maria Luise: Association of Writers and Artists: Vienna I, Rathausstrasse 5/8. - In: 60 years of the Federation of Austrian Women's Associations. - Vienna, undated signature: 993025-B.
• The Kleine Volksblatt, April 19, 1959.
• New Theater Almanac, 1907-09.
• GJ Meinel-Kernstock: D. von Stockert-Meynert and the Association of Writers and Artists in Vienna, phil. Diss. Vienna, 1948, pp. 203f.
• S. Schmid-Bortenschlager. In: Yearbook of the University of Salzburg 1981–83, 1984, p. 124ff.
• 125 years of the Association of Writers and Artists: 1885–2010 for the anniversary, ed. H. Helnwein, 2010.
• P. Wimmer: Man is bound to the word. For the 75th birthday of Marie Luise Cavallar (manuscript, Wimmer estate / Vienna Library in the City Hall).
• Mayerhofer, Claudia: Maria Luise Cavallar's artistic vita. Cultural-historical evaluation processes and archival foundations. In: Communications from the Association of Austrian Librarians 67 (2014), No. 3/4, pp. 479–480
• Salmhofer, Maria Bernadette: Prof. Maria Luise Cavallar. A life for literary art. Biography research.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Austrian Theater Museum in Vienna. Retrieved October 21, 2017 . 
2. ^ Hans Nüchtern: Liechtenstein: spoken by Maria Luise von Cavallar on February 4, 1935 . 1935 ( google.at [accessed on October 21, 2017]).
3. ↑ Cultural Networking Lower Austria: Willy Egger. Retrieved October 21, 2017 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Austrian Biographical Lexicon and biographical documentation: Cavallar, Maria (aka Marianne) Luise; born Schönberger, Ps. Maria Strathen. 2003, accessed February 2, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Friedrich Wallisch: I was very pleased: History and stories about Emperor Franz Joseph . Stiasny, 1967 ( google.at [accessed December 6, 2019]).
6. ^ Lutz Hagestedt: Butenschön - Dedo . Walter de Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-096111-9 ( google.at [accessed on October 21, 2017]).
7. ^ Concert, Margit Székely. Retrieved October 21, 2017 (Austrian German). 
8. ^ Maria Luise Cavallar • Martha Solmar. Retrieved December 6, 2019 (Austrian German). 
9. ↑ Recitation at Radio Wien on March 27, 1931. Retrieved on October 21, 2017 (German). 
10. ^ Abstracts Master Theses University of Vienna. Retrieved October 21, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Cissy Kraner's career. Retrieved October 21, 2017 . 
12. ↑ CV of Prof. DIETER O. HOLZINGER. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
13. ^ Christian Seiler: André Heller: Feuerkopf. The biography . C. Bertelsmann Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-641-06844-8 ( google.at [accessed on October 21, 2017]).
14. ↑ UniWien: Woman biographies. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
15. ^ Grillparzer Society: Yearbook of the Grillparzer Society . Bergland Verlag, 1980 ( google.at [accessed December 6, 2019]).
16. ↑ Gerda M. Eiselmair: The male guild be careful !: the Austrian composer Maria Bach . Löcker Verlag, 1996, ISBN 978-3-85409-248-3 ( google.at [accessed December 6, 2019]).
17. ^ ^{A b} Werner Schuder: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. 54th year . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-169855-7 ( google.at [accessed December 6, 2019]).
18. ↑ Werner Schuder: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. 56th year . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-082606-7 ( google.at [accessed December 6, 2019]).
19. ^ Maria Luise Cavallar, personal data in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna