Marya Delvard

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Marya Delvard (photo detail from around 1908)

Marya Delvard (born September 11, 1874 as Maria Joséphine Billère or Biller in Réchicourt-le-Château ; † September 25, 1965 in Pullach near Munich ) was a diseuse , chansonniere and actress .

Life

Poster " Eleven Executioners " (1911)

Marya Delvard was a key figure in early cabaret . She was a co-founder of the Elf Executioners (1901) in Munich. In Vienna she founded the cabaret Nachtlicht (1906) and the cabaret Fledermaus (1907) together with Marc Henry . From 1909 she completed numerous tours with her husband and stage partner Marc Henry through Germany and France. In 1929 Marya Delvard went to Switzerland. 1930–1939 she lived in Vienna. In 1939 she emigrated to Potiers. From 1958 Delvard lived in Munich again.

Her repertoire included a. Cabaret songs written especially for them by Hannes Ruch and Konrad Scherber . She sang board songs by Frank Wedekind and old French songs rediscovered and newly set by Marc Henry, which were also published by Hofmeister-Verlag . Together with Marc Henry she performed these French folk songs, peasant songs and revolutionary songs. In matching costumes, French or French-looking peasant or revolutionary clothing, she sang old Breton duets from the 18th century to accompany the lute.

According to contemporary reports, Marya Delvard had a very strong impact on her audience. The poet Egon Friedell describes an appearance by Marya Delvard in the cabaret Fledermaus:

“Marya Delvard is a diseuse who differs from most of her colleagues in a very advantageous way, because she understands the art of hinting at and hiding. She assumes that the viewer is not a complete idiot, but a person with imagination: with a bound imagination that one only needs to liberate in order to make it autonomous. "

Her grave is in the Munich North Cemetery (088-4-14).

literature

  • Michael Buhrs, Barbara Lésak, Thomas Trabitsch : Cabaret Fledermaus. A total work of art by the Wiener Werkstätte . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-85033-082-6 .
  • Hans-Michael Körner, Bruno Jahn: Great Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 1: A – GKG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11460-5 , p. 343 ( online via De Gruyter online ).
  • Roger Stein: The German Dirnenlied: literary cabaret from Bruant to Brecht. Böhlau, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-412-03306-5 , pp. 140–144 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Frithjof Trapp: Biographical Lexicon of the Theater Artist. Part 1: A – K (= handbook of the German-speaking exile theater 1933–1945. Volume 2). Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 169 f. ( accessed via De Gruyter online).
  • Revue Franco-Allemande / Franco-German Rundschau: Fondée à Munich en 1897 by Marya Delvard, M. Henry, Fritz Holl, JG Prod'homme. Continuée à Munich en 1964 by Marya Delvard, Fritz Holl, Hans KEL Keller sous les auspices de la Société Franco-Bavaroise, Bavarian-French Society, publisher of the Grotius Foundation, Munich, 1964.

Web links

swell

  • Radio broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk 2001: Mähneumwallter musicians: Hans Richard Weinhöppel alias Hannes Ruch (1867-1928); Broadcast on December 16, 2001 in B2; Author: Monika Dimpfl.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Egon Friedell in: Schaubühne, November 7, 1907, p. 454.
  2. ↑ Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich: Biographies from eight centuries. Allitera, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-744-5 , p. 144 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ^ Delvard, Marya , The Androom Archives, accessed August 27, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Delvard, Marya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Billère, Maria Joséphine; Biller, Maria Joséphine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Diseuse, chansonnière and actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Réchicourt-le-Château
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1965
Place of death Pullach in the Isar Valley