Stella Hay

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Stella Hay , bourgeois Stella Ehrlich , (born February 7, 1893 in Vienna ; died 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp ) was an Austrian theater actress with a detour to film.

Live and act

Stella Hay received her first permanent engagement at the age of 20, which she took to the German Art Theater Berlin in the 1913/14 season . In the coming years no further permanent engagement can be determined, so that she presumably appeared mainly on touring or very small stages or cabarets. In 1931 Stella Hay made her only (and tiny) appearance in front of the camera, in the comedy Strohwitwer .

When the National Socialists seized power , the Jewish artist was banned from performing and from then on only found work in the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden Berlin. Stella Hay could be seen there in October 1934 in the program Freuden der Sommerreise , in April 1935 in a cabaret evening by and with Max Ehrlich and in January 1937 in the comedy Essig und Öl , again staged by Max Ehrlich. Other pieces performed solely for a Jewish audience, sometimes in front of school classes, with Hay's participation were Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug (1937), Moreto's Donna Diana (1938) and Benavente's Der virtuous Knight of Fortune (1940) in a production by Fritz Wisten .

When the last remaining Jews were to be deported eastwards from Berlin to the concentration camps, on May 17, 1943, Stella Hay was also on a train with her ten years older husband Kurt Ehrlich and 393 other sufferers, the 38th Osttransport, on the way to the Auschwitz extermination camp. It can be assumed that the 50-year-old artist was murdered shortly after arrival.

literature

  • Trapp, Frithjof; Mittenzwei, Werner; Rischbieter, Henning; Schneider, Hansjörg: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945 / Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists. Volume 2, p. 388, Munich 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 38. Transport to the East. Stella Hay in position no.319

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personal data
SURNAME Hay, Stella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Honestly, Stella (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH after May 17, 1943
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp