Miriam Lehmann-Haupt

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Miriam Lehmann-Haupt (born November 19, 1904 in Berlin ; † August 3, 1981 in New York City ) was an Austrian actress and painter .

Life

Lehmann-Haupt trained as a painter and later as an actress. She was the daughter of the orientalist Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt , Miriam's mother was a writer Therese Haupt (1864–1938). Her brother Hellmut (1903–1992) was an art historian and book scholar.

In the 1925/1926 season, Lehmann-Haupt had an engagement at the Hessian State Theater. She then played at the Städtische Theatern Leipzig until 1928 and at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna in 1928/1929 . There she worked with Max Reinhardt . In the Deutscher Bühnenjahrbuch she was last recorded in 1934 as being without engagement. On a list of the Reichsfilmkammer from 1938 she is listed as "probably non-Aryan". She may have gone into exile during the Nazi era .

In London, Lehmann-Haupt worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation . On Broadway she played "Frau Krueger" in cabaret from 1966 to 1969 and it was not until 1980 that she had a role in Uncle Vanya in the Troupe Theater .

Lehmann-Haupt last lived in Manhattan . She died after a long illness at the age of 76 and left two sons.

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Individual evidence

  1. Angelika Kellner: Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt. The life of an almost forgotten ancient historian and ancient orientalist. In: Klio . Volume 97, Issue 1, p. 254.
  2. a b Miriam Lehmann-Haupt. In: The New York Times . August 7, 1981. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  3. Lehmann-Haupt, Mirjam. In: Frithjof Trapp (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933 - 1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists. Part 2. L - Z. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 564.