Marietta di Monaco

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Marietta di Monaco (born March 10, 1893 in Munich , † January 19, 1981 in Munich), also "Marietta", actually Maria Kirndörfer , was a German cabaret artist , poet , diseuse , dancer and poet . She was also a model for painters.

Life

Having grown up with foster parents, Marietta first leads the life of a vagabond after attending a convent school . In 1913 she was discovered by chance in the Schwabing cabaret “ Simplicissimus ”, also known as “Simpl”, for the stage. In the following years she appeared as a lecture artist and dancer in "Simpl", "Schwabinger Brettl", the "Katakombe" and the "Seerose" in Munich, but also in Berlin and Paris.

Trademark

The trademark of Marietta is the literary lecture with a strangely broken young girl's voice, the effect of which is underlined by her small, graceful growth and which she cultivates into old age. She is regarded as an inimitable interpreter, especially of grotesque everyday poetry.

Dadaism

In 1916 Marietta was part of the founding group of the “ Cabaret Voltaire ” in Zurich , which is considered the cradle of Dadaism . On May 31, 1916, she performed the sensational Dadaist work Simultan Nativity Play by Hugo Ball together with Hans Arp , Hugo Ball , Emmy Hennings , Marcel Janco and Tristan Tzara . Hugo Ball, one of the most important representatives of the avant-garde art and literary movement of Dadaism, which was developed in continuation of Expressionism , moved like Marietta before in the Schwabing artist colony around the Simpl, where as early as 1914 and thus for the first time in literary history in one of him and Klabund jointly written poem performed by Marietta di Monaco, the term 'Dada' appears.

Artist muse

Close friendships with poets such as Joachim Ringelnatz , Frank Wedekind , Fred Endrikat and Klabund , whose lyrical works she recited on stage, make Marietta famous as a poet's museum.

She also achieved prominence as a painter's model ; z. B. painted in Zurich in 1916 one of the most famous painters of the New Objectivity , Christian Schad , a portrait of Marietta in oil on canvas (60 × 41 cm; Christian Schad Foundation Aschaffenburg).

In 1920 the short romance novel Marietta von Klabund was published , which explicitly refers to the lecturer.

Titles in the press ranging from “Muse Schwabylons” to “Queen of the Schwabing Bohème ” testify to the fame that Marietta had at times.

emigration

In 1936 Marietta emigrated to France , but returned to Germany three years later.

Biography and honors

On her 65th birthday, the writer Peter Paul Althaus is honoring Marietta with a speech.

In 1962, Marietta di Monaco, who had previously worked as a poet and as a writer for cabaret, published travel pictures, memories and portraits under the title I came - I go, alluding to a poem by her late friend Klabund .

Also in 1962 she received the Schwabing Art Prize .

Late recordings

It was not until 1964 - 51 years after her debut - that her unique performance was recorded for the first time for a record as part of a series of private document recordings, “Schwabinger Kleinkunst-Kostbarkeiten”. Marietta speaks texts by Wilhelm Busch and her former companions Endrikat and Ringelnatz.

death

Marietta di Monaco died on January 19, 1981 in a nursing home in Munich. She is buried in the old part of the Munich forest cemetery in grave no. 222-3-171.

literature

  • Marietta di Monaco: I came - I'm going. Travel pictures. Memories. Portraits . New edition based on the text of the 1962 edition. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2002.
  • Klabund : Marietta. A romance novel . Steegemann, Hanover a. a. 1920.
  • Christian Schad : Relative realities . Augsburg 1999. (Schads memories of the creation of Dada in Zurich)

Quotes

  • " This petite little one should stand on the podium " (unbk. 1913, in the Schwabing restaurant "Simpl", pointing to the still completely unknown Marietta)
  • " The Emmy sings, Marietta speaks, / Sometimes it's a poem. / Ball plays the Typerary March. / And scratches his poet's ass. / A German poet sings in French, / Romanian sounds like Siamese. / Art is flourishing. Hallelujah! / There was also a Swiss there "(Marietta di Monaco, Zurich 1916)

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personal data
SURNAME Monaco, Marietta di
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marietta; Kirndörfer, Maria (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist, poet, diseuse, dancer and poet muse
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1981
Place of death Munich