Resi Langer

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Maria Theresia "Resi" Langer (born September 24, 1886 in Breslau , German Empire , † October 2, 1971 in Berlin ) was a German cabaret artist , actress and reciter .

Live and act

Maria Theresia Langer attended the St. Ursula convent school in her hometown of Wroclaw and received artistic training under the direction of Otto Gerlach at the theater school of the United Theater in Wroclaw. At the age of 16, Langer took on his first (still very small) theater roles at venues in Wroclaw, later also worked in Hanover and went on guest tours. In autumn 1906 Langer moved to Berlin, where she initially worked in a law firm, but soon after switched to a publishing house. In addition, she organized so-called “Rococo lecture evenings” and performed poems by Arno Holz , Christian Morgenstern and Wilhelm Busch .

In 1908 Resi Langer married the writer Alfred Richard Meyer, who gained some fame under the pseudonym Munkepunke . In the following year, Langer had a son, Hermann Wolf Meyer. Langer's first contact with film took place in 1912 when the then 26-year-old was involved in a production by film pioneer Alfred Duskes , the comedy Der Ulk im Film , under the direction of Eugen Illés , where she appeared in 24 sketches. However, from then on, activities in front of the camera remained the exception and were of rarity. Instead, she continued to concentrate on the theater and gave numerous readings as a reciter (including Frank Wedekind , Heinrich Heine , Alfred Lichtenstein ).

After the First World War , cabaret began to gain in importance in Resi Langer's career. From 1921 she appeared at various Berlin cabaret theaters, including Schall und Rauch , Wilde Bühne and Die Wespen alongside Trude Hesterberg , Harald Paulsen , Fritz Kampers , Annemarie Hase and Leon Hirsch . After 1933, Resi Langer found employment in the radio and kept himself afloat by moderating fashion shows.

Presumably in 1939 Resi Langer left the German Reich of Adolf Hitler and moved with her third husband, the Jew Dr. Stefan Meisel, initially to Italy. From there, the Philippines followed as further emigration stations, where she ran a pharmacy in Manila , and (1947) the United States. Here Resi Langer ran a kiosk in the foyer of a New York department store. Only at the age of 82 did the artist return to her old homeland, to her most important place of work in Berlin, where she died in the early autumn of 1971.

Filmography

  • 1912: The joke in the film
  • 1917: a thousand and one women
  • 1918: His death mask
  • 1934: virgin against monk
  • 1934: Vacation from me

publication

  • Resi Langer: Rococo and Kinotypes. Twelve poems and twelve episodes. Edited by Regina Nörtemann, Johanna Egger and Jeanette Wiede. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2014.

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. P. 104 f.
  • Hans Richter (Ed.): Filmstern 1922 . Hans Hermann Richter Verlag, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1921/22, p. 50.

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personal data
SURNAME Langer, Resi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langer, Maria Theresia (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist and actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Breslau , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1971
Place of death Berlin