Rosa Valetti

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Rosa Valetti (real Rosa Alice Vallentin , born January 26, 1876 in Berlin , † December 10, 1937 in Vienna ) was a German actress , cabaret artist and chansonnière .

Life

Rosa Valetti as Frau Peachum in Threepenny Opera

She was the daughter of the wood merchant and factory owner Felix Vallentin and sister of the actor Hermann Vallentin . Rosa Valetti gained her first experiences at Berlin suburban stages before she went to cabaret - animated by the November Revolution and the encounter with Kurt Tucholsky . In 1920 she founded the cabaret "Megalomania" in the Café Megalomania , which became one of the most important, literarily and politically ambitious cabarets in Berlin in the 1920s. In 1928 she played the role of Mrs. Peachum at the premiere of the Threepenny Opera .

From 1911 Rosa Valetti also received film roles. The rather resolute actress was mostly seen in mother roles, in the film The Princess and the Violinist , the 46-year-old already played a grandmother. In the famous production The Blue Angel she can be seen in the role of Guste, the wife of the director and magician (played by Kurt Gerron ). In addition to Josef von Sternberg , she also shot with other well-known film directors, she played the wicked housekeeper in Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Tartüff and was seen in a short appearance as the landlady in Fritz Lang's classic M film .

In 1933 Rosa Valetti emigrated , followed by appearances in Vienna and Prague , and in 1936 in Palestine . In 1899 she married the pianist Edmund Hertz from Warsaw, whose marriage was divorced in 1906. In her second marriage, Rosa Valetti married the journalist Karl Singer from Vienna in 1907. She was later married to the actor Ludwig Roth for the third time and had a daughter with him, the actress Lisl Valetti .

The "Rosa-Valetti-Straße" in Berlin-Mahlsdorf is named after her.

Her grave was until 2001 in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall in Vienna (department 6, ring 3, group 8, number 270).

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 128 f.
  • Kay Less: "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 516.

Web links

Commons : Rosa Valetti  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth certificate of the Berlin registry office I No. 209/1876 dated February 1, 1876.
  2. ↑ Marriage register of the Berlin-Charlottenburg registry office I No. 96/1899 of March 18, 1899.
  3. ↑ Marriage register of the registry office Deutsch-Wilmersdorf No. 405/1907 from September 20, 1907.
  4. ↑ zweausendeins.de Note: Rosa Valetti can be seen in this compilation by Géza von Bolváry in excerpts from old Ufa productions.
personal data
SURNAME Valetti, pink
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vallentin, Rosa Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, cabaret artist and chansonnière
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1937
Place of death Vienna