Orna Porat

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Orna Porat and Hanna Maron , theater scene from 1949
Orna Porat (1957)
Orna Porat (2005)
Orna Porat Theater for children and young people in Tel Aviv

Orna Porat (born June 6, 1924 in Cologne as Irene Klein ; † August 6, 2015 in Ramat Gan , Israel ; Hebrew אורנה פּורת) was an actress from Germany who emigrated to Israel with her husband.

Life

Irene Klein's father was Catholic, her mother a Protestant, and she was brought up in the Protestant sense. However, at the age of 17 she began to live as an atheist and became interested in socialist ideas. When she was ten years old, she and her family had moved to Porz , where, contrary to her parents' political convictions, she joined the Hitler Youth . After finishing school, she attended a drama school in Cologne from 1940 to 1942 and then got her first engagement at the theater in Schleswig . There she “discovered” the books by Thomas Mann , Jakob Wassermann and Franz Werfel , which opened her eyes to the Nazi dictatorship.

After the war, on May 12, 1946, she met Joseph Proter (Hebrew: Porat), a soldier in the Jewish Brigade who also came from Cologne , and married him that same year. Up until that point, she had actually wanted to emigrate to the Soviet Union . In 1947, however, the young couple emigrated to the Mandate Palestine , initially with the plan to live in a kibbutz . In 1957, Orna Porat converted to Judaism so that she and her husband could adopt two children when she had no biological children.

Soon after arriving in Palestine, Porat introduced herself to the Tel Aviv theaters , and after being rejected by the Habimah and the Ohel Theater , she was accepted at the Cameri Theater in 1948 and was there in classical stage literature for forty years to see. Later she also appeared at the Habimah and the Yiddish Theater . In 1970, at the suggestion of the then education minister Jigal Allon , she founded the Israeli Children's Theater (now named in her honor: Orna Porat Theater for Children and Young People ), which she directed until 1989. Orna Porat helped found the “International Association of Theater for Children and Young People” ASSITEJ . Porat was awarded the Israel Prize in 1979 .

Porat took on her first major film role in You're Free, Dr. Korczak , a film about the life and death of Janusz Korczak . Her best-known film appearance was in Cannon Movie Tales: Sleeping Beauty (1987), in which she played the role of Sleeping Beauty's maid. In total, she was seen in around a dozen film and television productions.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1951: Ir Ha'Ohalim (German: tent city), short film
  • 1974: You are free, Dr. Korczak
  • 1986: Love is a game for time (Every Time We Say Goodbye)
  • 1987: Cannon Movie Tales: Sleeping Beauty

Web links

Commons : Orna Porat  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Merav Yudilovich: Israel's leading theater diva dies at 91 . Yedioth Internet , August 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c Leah Gilula: Art. Orna Porat . In: Jewish Women. A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia , accessed August 6, 2015.
  3. ^ Helen Kaye: The grand woman of Israeli theater . In: The Jerusalem Post , January 12, 2005.
  4. ↑ a b Shelley Kästner: Jewish Roulette - From the Jewish Archbishop to the Atheist Orthodox, 21 conversations . 1st edition. Salis Verlag, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-906195-78-0 , p. 33-39 .
  5. ^ A b Hans-Christian Rössler: In two countries . In: FAZ , August 8, 2015, p. 13; Obituary.
  6. ↑ Orna Porat . In: Lexicon of International Films .
personal data
SURNAME Porat, Orna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klein, Irene (maiden name); אורנה פּורת & lrm (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2015
Place of death Ramat Gan , Israel