Stefanie Job

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Stefanie Job (born May 7, 1909 in Poschegg , Austria-Hungary , † 2002 in Zurich ) was a Yugoslav-Austrian-Swiss beauty queen , actress and author who came from today's Croatia and worked under different names . Her maiden name is given as Stefanie Vidačić , Štefanija Vidačić and Stefanie Vidačić from Söjtory . The year of birth is also indicated as 1905 .

youth

Stefanie was the illegitimate daughter of Franjo Söjtöry and Vjekoslava Vidačić. In Zagreb she attended the secondary school. According to various sources, she is said to have worked as a waitress in a café on Jurišićeva ulica or even owned it. According to her own account, she worked in her father's company that imported tropical fruits. Before graduation , she lost her parents in an accident.

Career start as a beauty queen

In December 1926 she was elected Miss Yugoslavia in the Zagreb Hotel Esplanade , the following March 1927 as the first Miss Europe and known under the name Štefica Vidačić. These competitions were organized by Fanamet , a European distribution consortium of several US film companies, in order to acquire the European film market and discover young stars. The final selection took place in the Viennese Sofiensaal . The prize was the main role in a Hollywood flick directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau . When the twelve-person jury could not decide between the ten candidates (including the wife of the cameraman and later director Gustav Ucicky , who then made a career as Betty Bird ), Murnau was called in Hollywood. He decided that test recordings should be made of all candidates and sent to him that the winner would eventually play in his film. Štefica Vidačić and Aniela Bogucka from Poland were selected as winners with a tie. However, the film project was never realized. As compensation, Štefica Vidačić received a fee of 100 US dollars per week for a year.

Film business

Nevertheless she was "discovered" for the German (and Czechoslovak) film. A little later she went to Berlin and took on the easier-to-pronounce stage name Steffie Vida. In 1928 she played minor roles in Evas Töchter (directed by Karel Lamač ), Knights of the Night (directed by Max Reichmann ) and Secrets of the Orient (directed by Alexander Wolkow ). The next year she made two more films: Liebe im Schnee (directed by Max Obal and Rudolf Walther-Fein ) and Die Mitternachts-Taxe (directed and leading actor Harry Piel ). After that, her career ended because she had no outstanding talent. The emerging sound film also contributed to this.

In the film studios she met the film composer and UFA general music director Willy Schmidt-Gentner during and between filming . The two married in 1932 and moved to Vienna the following year.

Living in Austria

At Easter 1938 the couple bought a farm in Gschwendt near Kumberg (Styria). One reckoned with an impending war and the resulting shortage of food. In this case, the farm should serve for self-sufficiency.

While Willy Schmidt-Gentner continued to work in Vienna, his wife looked after the farm with a few assistants, including an Eastern worker from whom she learned Russian. During this time the couple drifted apart. The marriage ended in divorce in 1942. Stefanie Schmidt-Gentner and her ex-husband initially remained connected through their shared apartment in Vienna and the courtyard, where they saw the end of the war and the invasion of Soviet troops. Willy Schmidt-Gentner was appointed mayor of Kumberg from May to November 1945 by the occupying forces, Stefanie Schmidt-Gentner worked for him and the local command as an interpreter.

In 1947, through contact with film producer Eugen Sharin , who was then working for the CBS, she got the opportunity to work with Leopold Hainisch for the CBS on a television series with the Vienna Philharmonic . Her ex-husband was again involved as a conductor on some of the recordings.

Life in Switzerland

In 1948 she married the Swiss journalist Max Job, went with him to Zurich and now used the name Stefanie Job. She came into contact with the publishing industry through her second husband. She worked for the Zurich press for 17 years as an editor and proofreader . She also wrote four books between 1980 and 1995. Most recently she lived alternately in Zurich and Schnifis (Vorarlberg). There she worked as an editor of the literary magazine Vorarlberger Lesebogen .

Since she remained childless and had survived her relatives, she bequeathed her estate to Greenpeace .

Beauty Contests (as Štefica Vidačić)

Filmography (as Steffie Vida)

Publications (as Stefanie Job)

  • Stefanie Job: The present. A utopian artist revolt, fantasized about the city of Bregenz on Lake Constance . Novella. KÖLA, Schnifis, Vorarlberg 1980.
  • Stefanie Job: In the forecourt . Novel. Ed. Erpf, Bern 1990, ISBN 3-905517-15-9 .
  • Stefanie Job: Being a woman in old age - pleasure or frustration? Münzer, Feldkirch 1992, ISBN 3-85176-003-4 .
  • Stefanie Job: The neglected muse. Biography of the novel of the film musician and UFA general music director Willy Schmidt-Gentner. Frieling, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89009-804-5 .
  • In addition, from 1978 to 1986 she was the editor of the literary magazine Vorarlberger Lesebogen , published by the Club of Austrian Literature Friends and Authors (KÖLA), Vorarlberg branch.

Television documentary

  • 1994: Pin-ups, Playmates, Beauty Queens - Documentation by NZZ Format

painting

Štefica Vidačić was painted by Robert Auer (1873–1952), a Croatian painter of the Munich Secession , half-naked, covered with a cloth.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 034portal.hr (Croatian) , accessed on March 29, 2017
  2. ↑ Stefanie Job: The neglected muse. 1995, p. 48.
  3. ↑ Miss Europe . In: Illustrierte Kronen-Zeitung , April 11, 1927, p. 3 (online at ANNO )
  4. ↑ The Yugoslav, the Polish and the Austrian, the elect of the Fanamet competition, in "Mein Film", No. 60, p. 3
  5. ↑ Stefanie Job: The neglected muse. 1995, pp. 48-50.
  6. ↑ Stefanie Job: The neglected muse. 1995, p. 99 f.
  7. ↑ Greenpeace France ( Memento of January 5, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ literaturhaus.at , accessed on March 29, 2017
  9. ^ Vorarlberg reading sheet in the Austrian National Library , accessed on March 29, 2017
  10. ↑ youtube (from around 8:40 p.m.), accessed on March 29, 2017
  11. ↑ 034portal.hr (Croatian; here also the picture) , accessed on March 29, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Job, Stefanie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vidačić, Stefanie; Vidačić, Štefanija; Söjtory, Stefanie Vidačić from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav beauty queen, silent film actress and Swiss author
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Poschegg , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 2002
Place of death Zurich