Rosl Berndt

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Rosl Berndt , actually Rosa Dunkelblau ( September 25, 1903 in Vienna - January 3, 1996 in Chichester , Sussex , United Kingdom ) was an Austrian singer and cabaret artist . Her career began in 1914 as a child star Kleine Rosa on stages in Vienna.

life and work

“She was a natural and was satisfied with it,” writes Liesl Müller-Johnson about her mother, Rosl Berndt, at one point in her biography. “She was lazy”, this is what the daughter writes about her mother, the celebrated child star on the stages of international cabaret, who, coming from the simplest of backgrounds in Vienna's Leopoldstadt , completed a picture-book career.

Rosl Berndt's mother, Bronja Dunkelblau, came to Vienna in 1890 from what was then the Austrian crown land of Galicia and established a life as a caretaker in Vienna 2. Weintraubengasse 8 “with nothing in her pocket” and as an illiterate person. Her father, Eduard Slovik, fled because of gambling debts in the USA, Bronja has to raise her daughter alone. She was discovered by Hermann Leopoldi and hired away from the ballet school in the Carltheater and made her debut on December 20, 1914 as Suza in Franz Lehár's operetta Der Rastelbinder . As a result, Berndt quickly celebrated successes as Little Rosa in the falling Danube Monarchy, "the audience rages with enthusiasm" and becomes the audience favorite of the Viennese cabaret and variety scene with appearances at the Ronacher , Simpl and Raimundtheaters .

Rosl Berndt finally marries the "Hungarian war hero, soldier of fortune and short-term cabaret Simpl owner" Karl Müller . With him, she made the transition from a child star to an adult career , which she continued after her divorce, partly at the Tuschinski Theater in Amsterdam. Their daughter Liesl was born in 1922, and because of her mother's obligations, she grew up with her grandmother in Vienna. The marriage failed after a few years. Berndt's world was mainly characterized by glamor and glamor until the 1930s, with stars like Marlene Dietrich and Richard Tauber going in and out of it. She works with Fritz Grünbaum , Karl Farkas , Hermann Leopoldi and Hans Moser , and remains unaffected by material hardship even during the economic crisis. "She was very moody," her daughter recalled. “She liked making scenes. When she was in a good mood, as is usually the case, then she was radiant and irresistible, but everyone trembled before her scenes. "

In 1936 the " half-Jewish " left Vienna and moved to Bucharest with her future husband, the Romanian industrialist Dinu Buhlea , and her daughter, where they survived the war in relative safety. During the "annexation" of Austria to Hitler-Germany , the declared Nazi opponent Berndt happened to be in Vienna: "My mother said, 'lick my ass' when she was greeted with 'Heil Hitler'", reported the daughter. After the Yalta Conference in February 1945, the family was stranded in Romania. However, daughter Liesl managed to leave for England in 1947 and married a Briton. In 1960 she was able to bring her mother to England. Rosl Berndt was unable to continue her pre-war career: although she was on the stage of the Raimund Theater in Vienna again in 1963 , the play failed. In 1996 she died in England at the age of 93. She is buried in Headley Cemetery.

literature

  • Liesl Müller-Johnson: Rosl and her daughter. Life and cabaret between 1914 and 1936. Revised from English and supplemented by Monika Mertl. Vienna: Milena Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-902950-055 .

swell

  1. ^ Liesl Müller-Johnson: Rosl and your daughter . Milena Verlag, Vienna, p. 226 .
  2. ↑ more precise life data according to ancestry.com.uk
  3. ↑ Tanja Paar: Cabaret artist Rosl Berndt: Bassena, Bühne und Brillanten , Der Standard , September 17, 2014
  4. ↑ Rosl and her daughter ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , E-book, accessed September 20, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / readersdigest.e-bookshelf.de
  5. ↑ Austrian Cabaret Archive , subpage New in the archive , accessed on September 20, 2014
  6. ↑ Rainer Mayerhofer: Bronja, Rosl and Liesl , Wiener Zeitung , May 26, 2014
  7. ↑ Rosl and her daughter - life and cabaret between 1914 and 1936 , ORF , September 18, 2014
  8. ↑ a b Forgotten cabaret artist The autobiography of Rosl Berndt , 3sat , April 24, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Berndt, Rosl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dark blue, pink (real name); Pink, little one
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian singer and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 1996
Place of death Chichester , UK