Thea Rosenquist
Theodora Anna Mathilde Julie Rosenquist , also Thea Körner , (born May 8, 1896 in Lübeck , † July 26, 1959 in Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada ) was an actress of German origin in the Austrian silent film industry.
Life
Born in Lübeck, she began her artistic career in 1913 at the New City Theater in her hometown. Two years later she moved to Flensburg (from 1915 to 1917). In 1917 she went to Vienna to the German Volkstheater . Thea Rosenquist has remained connected to the Austrian capital ever since and has appeared in local films since her arrival in Vienna, mostly with leading roles. She was seen as the title heroine in the film adaptation of Hebbel's drama Maria Magdalena , as title heroine Rachel in the adaptation of Grillparzer's drama Die Jüdin von Toledo and as Baronesse Tirnau in the historical drama Ludwig II , her last film to be proven.
In 1923 Thea Rosenquist married the timber industrialist Leon Körner from Prague and then withdrew from acting. Until 1938 the couple lived at Kahlenbergerstrasse 141 (later owned by the Jordanian royal family, among others) in Vienna and Prague. With the invasion of the German armed forces and the annexation of Austria , the Jewish family had to leave the country. Shortly before the Prague airport was closed to civil aircraft, Thea and Leon Körner escaped to Amsterdam on a chartered Dutch plane and fled from there to England. Other family members escaped the National Socialists in other ways, but three of the Körners' sisters were murdered in concentration camps .
Thea and Leon Körner finally emigrated to Canada via the USA in early February 1939 and settled in Vancouver. Leon Körner (English Koerner) bought a bankrupt sawmill there and had his three brothers Walter, Otto and Theodor, their families and other friends and relatives follow them. Due to the war, the timber industry developed surprisingly successfully - in particular the production of ammunition boxes for the Commonwealth Army and the reconstruction in Europe after the war brought renewed prosperity to the Koerners. In gratitude for acceptance in Canada, they set up a large number of foundations.
The “Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation” and the “Student Graduate Center” with “Thea's Pub” still exist in Vancouver today. The University of British Columbia library is named after Leon's brother Walter Koerner. The Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver can also be traced back to foundations by the Koerners. Thea, who last visited Europe (England) with her husband in 1952, died completely unexpectedly in 1959, Leon followed her in 1972. They left no children behind. A small artistic estate is on loan from the Austrian Film Archive in Vienna.
Filmography
- 1917: The Serpent of Passion
- 1918: This is how the lots of life fall
- 1919: Maria Magdalena
- 1919: The dream in the forest
- 1919: The forest spider
- 1919: Spring awakening
- 1919: The Jewess of Toledo
- 1919: Mephisto's carnival mood
- 1919: Alone with his God
- 1920: gold
- 1922: Ludwig II.
literature
- Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 430 f.
Web links
- Thea Rosenquist in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Thea Rosenquist at filmportal.de
- Thea Rosenquist at The German Early Cinema Database
- Thea's world
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosenquist, Thea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosenquist, Theodora Anna Mathilde Julie; Grains, Thea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-born actress in Austrian silent films |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1959 |
| Place of death | Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada |