Olga Wojan

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Olga Wojan (born February 25, 1896 in Prague , † November 9, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German actress and writer with Czech roots.

Life

Olga Wojan was a daughter of the Czech actor Eduard Wojan . She first attended middle school and was then taught at home by Albert Pražák . She received acting lessons from Tilla Durieux and Marie Urfus , and from 1912 to 1914 at the Max Reinhardt Drama School in Berlin. She had engagements at the Hoftheater in Dresden , Meinhard , the Bernauer Theater and the Schillertheater in Berlin; In 1917 she was at the Berlin Komödienhaus, in 1921 she was a member of the tribune . Carl von Ossietzky praised her "artful, discreetly restrained sign language" and her "full-sounding and excellently trained organ". Egon Erwin Kisch certified her "the desirable unlearnable Berlinism".

In the winter of 1920/21 she was Klabund's friend, who stated in a letter to Walther Heinrich from Positano in 1921 that Olga Wojan was undoubtedly very nice and decent, but he could not be with women like her for a long time: “It there are two types of women that I have come across again and again: one, that is her, and the other, that is my wife [...] I think I tend to be more or more affectionate to this type of woman. They don't weigh you down or burden you. "

A good year after this discovery, Olga Wojan committed suicide with the “poison” Adalin , allegedly because of an unhappy love for Otto Flake .

Her roles include Juliet in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet , Gretchen in Faust and Franziska in Wedekind 's play of the same name . Eugen Robert had the actress appear naked in this piece, which inspired Kurt Tucholsky, aka Theobald Tiger, to write a work whose refrain read: "Undress yourself, Petronella, undress yourself!" Trude Hesterberg performed this piece in the cabaret Schall und Rauch .

She also appeared in cabarets, published novels and had several film roles in silent films : in 1918 she starred in Midnight , in 1919 in Das Ende vom Liede and in 1920, directed by Carl Froelich , in Toteninsel .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The air consumption when singing. From Prof. Dr. Réthi, Vienna: The voice . 1917, p. 94 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Carl von Ossietzky: Schriften 1911 - 1921. Jazzybee Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-849-62488-0 , o. S. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  3. ↑ Egon Erwin Kisch: Collected Works in Individual Editions . Aufbau-Verlag, 1983, p. 436 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  4. ↑ Ramazan Şen: Klabund. Complete Works. Volume I, Poetry. Fourth part. Rodopi, 2012, ISBN 978-9-401-20836-9 , p. 1359 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  5. ^ Leopold Ziegler: Letters and Documents. Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, ISBN 978-3-826-03324-7 , p. 180 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  6. ↑ Marcellus Schiffer: Tonight or never . Weidle, 2003, p. 125 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  7. ↑ a b Olga Wojan at www.filmportal.de
  8. ↑ Inka Bach: Between two wars. Transit Buchverlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-887-47297-9 , o. S. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  9. ↑ Ulrike Traub: Theater of Nudity. transcript Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-839-41610-5 , p. 73 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Wojan, Olga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Actress and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1922
Place of death Berlin