Stella Kadmon

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Memorial plaque for Stella Kadmon

Stella Kadmon (born July 16, 1902 in Vienna ; † October 12, 1989 there ) was an Austrian actress , cabaret artist and theater director .

Training and engagements

The daughter of the civil servant Moritz Kadmon and his wife Malvine, née Nelken, a concert pianist and music teacher, completed an apprenticeship at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the acting and directing department, today's Max Reinhardt Seminar . She received her first engagement for the 1922/23 season in the field of "naive" at the Linz State Theater . She first achieved greater fame there as Lulu in Frank Wedekind's Earth Spirit .

In 1924/25 she played at the Deutsches Theater in Mährisch-Ostrau . With chansons by Fritz Grünbaum she made her debut successfully as a chansonnière in the cabaret “Pavillon” and went on tour with her program. From 1926 to 1931 she made a name for herself as a diseuse and cabaret artist and appeared in the Viennese cabarets Simpl , Pavillon and Hölle as well as in Munich, Cologne and Berlin.

Cabaret "Der liebe Augustin"

On November 7th, 1931 she founded her own cabaret in Vienna in the basement of Café Prückel with “Der liebe Augustin” with Peter Hammerschlag as playwright and Fritz (Fred) Spielmann (1906–1997) as composer. At the same time he worked together with Franz Eugen Klein (1912-1944) as a conductor until 1938 . In addition to her, the actors included Leon Askin , Fritz Muliar and Gusti Wolf .

After Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, more and more German artists joined them, including the author Herrmann Mostar .

From 1935 onwards, the open-air theater “Der liebe Augustin im Grünen” was played on the Hohe Warte in Vienna-Döbling. After the “ Anschluss of Austria ” in 1938, the cabaret had to be closed. The Jewess Kadmon emigrated to Belgrade in July 1938, to Greece in 1939 and finally to Palestine.

On April 8, 1940, she opened the Hebrew-language cabaret "Papillion" in Tel Aviv and went on tour with chansons. In the roof garden of her house she organized readings of German-language dramas by Bertolt Brecht , Franz Werfel and Arnold Zweig .

On April 29, 1947 she returned to Vienna and took over the "Dear Augustin" again from Fritz Eckhardt for the 1947/48 season .

After four programs she walked with Brecht's Fear and Misery of the Third Reich under the title Look here! the cabaret in April 1948 into a theater and changed its name to "Theater der Courage".

"Theater of Courage"

She headed this theater, which was located in a new building from November 7, 1960, until 1981. During this time, 31 world premieres (e.g. plays by Sartre , Brecht or Borchert ) and 120 Austrian or German-language premieres took place there. In 1980/81 she converted her theater into a GmbH and at the end of 1981 handed over the management of the theater to Emmy Werner as a partner. The last performance took place on December 31, 1981. Taking over the theater fund, Emmy Werner opened the theater in Drachengasse and in 1984 adapted the “Theater der Courage” into an additional room.

In 2003 the Stella-Kadmon-Weg was named after her in Vienna-Favoriten (10th district).

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other information: October 15 [1]
  2. ↑ Work unit “Musicians persecuted during the Nazi era” , accessed on April 21, 2013
  3. ↑ Theater of Courage. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)

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personal data
SURNAME Kadmon, Stella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress, cabaret artist and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1989
Place of death Vienna