Olly Holzmann

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Olly Holzmann (born October 31, 1916 in Vienna as Ilona Holzmann , † August 1995 in London ) was Austrian national champion in figure skating, dancer and film actress.

Life and movies

Olly Holzmann made her film debut in 1939 in the spy film Hotel Sacher , directed by Erich Engel , in which she appeared in a small supporting role alongside Sybille Schmitz , Willy Birgel and Wolf Albach-Retty . In her second film, Frau im Strom (1939), she played the friend of a car mechanic ( Attila Hörbiger ), who falls in love with a suicidal stranger whom he fishes from the Danube Canal ( Hertha Feiler ). Olly Holzmann got a first major role in Carl Heinz Wolff's film Tipp auf Amalia in 1940 , in which she plays a housemaid whose life is linked to three other servants ( Lotte Werkmeister , Oscar Sabo and Jaspar von Oertzen ) through an unexpected inheritance . The most commercially successful film in which Olly Holzmann was involved was Géza from Bolváry's love film Wiener G'schichten (1940), in which she played a supporting role alongside Marte Harell , Paul Hörbiger and Hans Moser . In the same year, Hubert Marischka's mistake play Sieben Jahre Pech (Seven Years of Bad luck) played the first leading role. At the side of Hans Moser and Theo Lingen , Olly Holzmann embodied a young woman whose admirer (Wolf Albach-Retty) believes she is unlucky and therefore does not dare to propose to her. In the crime film Five Thousand Marks Reward (1942) she then played the wife of an amateur criminalist ( Martin Urtel ), who over-ambitiously drives her husband into all sorts of difficulties.

With her pronounced temperament, sparkling zest for life, Austrian charm, her dark hair and her average but nice face, Olly Holzmann was completely committed to the type of "Mizzi", the "Viennese girl", who was popular with many actresses in the 1930s and 1940s was embodied. If she is still known to a larger audience today, this is mainly due to her leading role in Géza from Cziffra's lavishly staged ice revue film The White Dream (1943), in which the actress, who made it to the national championship in figure skating, also for the first time could show their athletic skills. Her film lover was again Wolf Albach-Retty - whom she avoided privately by the way - while she can be seen on the ice with world champion Karl Schäfer . Olly Holzmann's three last films were shot before the end of the war, but premiered later (so-called defectors ): In the comedy Erzieherin wanted she plays a mannequin who stands in for a friend as the educator of a five-year-old boy and the three uncles of her pupil ( Ernst von Klipstein , Wolfgang Lukschy and Fritz Wagner ) turned my head. In the musical comedy Liebe nach Noten , she convinces a composer who is adored by women ( Rudolf Prack ) that women are not only seductive material, but can also compose. In the love comedy With My Eyes , she played a supporting role alongside Olga Chekhova and Willy Birgel .

Olly (Ilona) Holzmann was married twice. Her first marriage was with the anti-fascist sports journalist Alexander Meisel (1904–1942), a brother of Josef Meisel . Holzmann joined the Evangelical Church AB (community 1. Vienna, Dorotheergasse 16) on March 28, 1934 after the February fights . She was married on August 21, 1934 to Meisel, who had also entered the Evangelical Church AB on April 7, 1934. After the " Anschluss of Austria " to the National Socialist German Reich in 1938, Alexander Meisel was taken into " protective custody " in one of the first transports on May 13, 1938 to the Dachau concentration camp . He was arrested again on October 31, 1938 and recorded by the Gestapo . On February 24, 1942, he was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , where he died on March 3, 1942.

Ilona Holzmann experienced the end of the war in Kleinmachnow . She met her second husband, the American officer Alexander Orley, a racing car driver and export merchant, in 1945 in bombed Berlin. At that time she was still playing a little theater ( Die Tribüne , 1946). She then lived with her husband, daughter and son on a Caribbean island, which she left after her husband's death in 1975 to return to her hometown of Vienna.

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance
personal data
SURNAME Holzmann, Olly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holzmann, Olga (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian figure skater, dancer and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH August 1995
Place of death London , England , UK