Rita Georg

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Rita Georg (born June 11, 1900 in Berlin , † November 30, 1973 in Vancouver , Canada ) was a German soubrette and operetta singer (soprano).

Life

The composer Franz Lehár discovered and promoted the young singer who, according to experts and critics, did not come close to her colleagues Marta Eggerth and Gitta Alpár . In 1919 she had a film role in the silent film The Commandment of Love . In 1926 she paraded in a trouser role in Karl Farka's revue Journal der Liebe at the Vienna Citizens' Theater . Rita Georg was Lehár's first Sonja in his 1927 Zarewitsch at Richard Tauber's side . She was best known as Mary in Emmerich Kálmán's The Duchess of Chicago in 1928 at the Theater an der Wien .

From 1933 she moved to France . There she played u. a. at the Paris Empire Theater in Ralph Benatzky's Deux sous de fleurs . Around 1938/39 she went to the Netherlands , where she belonged to the ensemble of the “Theater der Prominenten” founded by Willy Rosen and other Berlin emigrants, which existed until 1942 after the German occupation. Siegfried Arno and Trude Berliner played alongside her . In 1943 she was arrested by the Germans, but was released and was able to emigrate.

Rita Georg was temporarily married to the director of the Casino de Paris , Henri Varna.

Filmography

  • 1919: The commandment to love

Discography (selection)

  • One will come (Tsarevich), 1927
  • Got only you alone (Tsarevich), 1927, duet with Richard Tauber
  • We ladies from America, 1932
  • A little slowfox with Mary, 1932
  • Today I have a Schwipserl, 1930
  • Potpourri from "Die Dubarry" (Millöcker-Mackeben), with Marcel Klass and the Ilja Livschakoff orchestra, 1931

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personal data
SURNAME Georg, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soubrette and operetta singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1973
Place of death Vancouver , Canada