Sonik Rainer

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Sonik Rainer , actually Antonia Steinkleiber (born April 26, 1907 ) was a German stage actress and voice actress who was active in the first half of the 20th century .

Life

stage

The artistic focus of Sonik Rainer was on stage throughout his life. At the opening of the theater used by the Vienna Burgtheater in the Redoutensaal of the Hofburg on September 13, 1922, she played under the direction of Max Reinhardt in Goethe's Clavigo "Carlos", the friend of the title hero, then played by Alexander Moissi . In 1924 she came to the Prussian State Theater in Berlin via a stage stop in Prague . From 1926 she appeared as a freelance actress on various Berlin theaters such as the Deutsches Theater . At DT, for example, she played the sutler in Wolfgang Goetz ' Neidhardt von Gneisenau in 1926/27 under the direction of Heinz Hilpert and in Ferdinand Bruckner's Verbrecher in 1928 . In January 1929 she was engaged at the Zurich Schauspielhaus .

synchronization

In 1933, during a search for a suitable German voice for the Swedish film star Greta Garbo , led by the director and dialogue book author Helmut Brandis , with great media interest, Sonik Rainer was chosen as her voice actress in the historical drama Queen Christine . Sonik Rainer dubbed Greta Garbo in at least two other films ( The Colorful Veil (1934), Anna Karenina (1935)).

Private

Sonik Rainer was married to Walter Engelmann, the director of the First Bohemian Artificial Silk Factory in Theresienthal. The marriage resulted in a son, Michael Engelmann , who later became known for his graphics . After the parents' divorce, Engelmann lived with his mother in Berlin until 1934, before the guardianship court transferred custody to the father. In October 1935, Sonik Rainer kidnapped her son in Hohenelbe while his father was absent, which caused a lot of media coverage and was politically instrumentalized, mainly due to the father's Jewish faith. Nevertheless, custody remained with the father, who fled the National Socialists with his son in 1940 and emigrated to the USA in 1941.

criticism

Joseph Roth praised Rainer's portrayal of “Thekla” in Schiller's Piccolomini :
“This actress managed to avoid sentimentality without missing any apparent passion.”
Herbert Ihering also praised her portrayal of “Thekla” and that of “Natalie” in Heinrich von Kleist's Prince von Homburg
Rainer's interpretation of "Toni" in Hilpert's staging of Gina Kaus ' Toni. A schoolgirl drama in March 1927, on the other hand, led to a negative response from both critics and Gina Kaus herself, although Rainer did not deny the acting quality, but considered it to be a bad cast.

Remarks

  1. ^ German Digital Library: Collection Berlin Document Center (BDC): Personal documents of the Reich Chamber of Culture (RKK) R 9361 V / 124931
  2. ^ Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica , Universita Karlova (Ed.), 1962, p. 58
  3. ^ Alfred Kerr : This is the case: Theater reviews 1919-1933 and in exile , Günther Rühle (Ed.), S. Fischer 2001, p. 830.
  4. ^ Index of roles by Mathias Wieman by Dieter Leitner.
  5. ↑ Friedemann Beyer : More beautiful than death: the life of Sybille Schmitz , Belleville 1998, p. 27.
  6. ↑ Does the Garbo speak German? , in: Film Kurier 22 , from January 26, 1935, three times in German , in: Wochenschau No.4 , Tagesschau - Good synchronization deceives film critics , in: Film Kurier 87 , from April 12, 1935; all quoted from Miika D. Blinn: Dubbed or Duped? Path Dependence in the German Film Market. An Inquiry into the Origins, Persistence and Effects of the Dubbing Standard in Germany , Berlin 2009, p. 162, published online at [1]
  7. ↑ Zürcher Illustrierte, number 48, November 27, 1936. Double-page article on film synchronization. Ich liebe dich. I love you. Film synchronization. "In the last few Garbo films, Greta Garbo's voice has been replaced by that of German actress Sonik Rainer." P. 1508
  8. ↑ New kidnapping affair in Czechoslovakia: The actress Sonik Rainer robs her child - consequences of a divorce between "non-Aryans" and "Aryan" , in: Pariser Tageblatt , vol. 3. (1935), no. 681 of October 24, 1935, p 2
  9. ↑ Joseph Roth : Wallenstein's Death in the State Theater , in Vorwärts of October 12, 1922, quoted from: Nicole Frank: “It is impossible to fixate myself.” Writing strategies by Joseph Roth. An analysis of newly discovered newspaper articles from his time in Berlin from 1920 to 1923 , 2007, p. 264; published online at unifr.ch (PDF; 5.7 MB)
  10. ^ Herbert Ihering : From Reinhardt to Brecht: Four decades of theater and film: 1924-1929 , Aufbau-Verlag 1961, p. 55. 90.
  11. ^ Deutsche Rundschau , Volume 211, Gebrüder Paetel 1927, p. 88
  12. ↑ Gina Kaus : And what a life ... , Knaur 1979, p. 173.
personal data
SURNAME Rainer, Sonik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stone nuthatch, Antonia (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage actress and voice actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1907
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century