Therese Angeloff

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Therese Angeloff (born March 28, 1911 in Dresden , † October 5, 1985 in Munich ) was a German cabaret artist and actress .

Life

Therese Angeloff was the older sister of Fritz Steiner , with whom she appeared on stage for the first time in her father's theater troupe in Dresden and with whom she worked on various stages.

However, it was after the takeover by the Nazis with disbarment occupied and first went into Czechoslovakia , where she married a Bulgarian. After the occupation of the Sudetenland, she denied this and returned to Dresden with her maiden name Therese Steiner , where she managed to get by with odd jobs: she worked as a model, saleswoman, barmaid and finally as a factory worker. After 1945 she was together with her brother Fritz, initially theater director in Dresden (Kammerspiele Johannstadt and Volksbühne Cotta). Not only her piece Die Frauen von Montecano had its world premiere at the Dresden State Operetta , she wrote her first libretto for this house in 1950. However, she went to West Germany and lived in Munich from 1951.

In 1953, she founded the cabaret Die Kleine Fisch in Munich , which she directed until it was dissolved on June 30, 1959 and for which she wrote numerous texts.

She was involved in the cultural work of the trade unions, in the SPD and in the extra-parliamentary opposition. Later she worked mainly as a director, wrote mock poems based on Heine, as well as cabaret and agitprop texts.

In 1982 she received the Georg Weerth Prize .

Your estate is administered by the German Cabaret Archive Foundation in Mainz.

Publications

  • Operetta-Operetta , libretto for the operetta, 1950 ( premiered at the Dresden State Operetta )
  • Bel Ami , libretto for the musical, together with Franz Gribitz (1894–1964), 1961
  • Faust, Part of Tragedy Unknown , 1979
  • My soul has a wooden leg , 1982 (satirical autobiography)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joachim F. Richter: Munich from AZ. City lexicon of the Bavarian capital with the district of Munich. Berg am Starnberger See, 1968.
  2. ^ Nils Grosch, Elmar Juchem (ed.): The reception of the Broadway musical in Germany . Münster 2012.