Trude Brionne

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Trude Brionne , born Gertrude von Borkenau , bourgeois Gertrude Countess von Nostitz-Rieneck (born November 6, 1907 in Berlin ; † July 13, 1995 in Vienna ), was a German singer and actress with stage and early talkies.

Live and act

Career at the theater and marriage

Gertrud von Borkenau received her artistic training in the mid-1920s and began her stage career in the 1925/26 season at the Deutsches Volkstheater Vienna. After only one season she moved to the Wiener Kammerspiele under the direction of Franz Wenzler , where the young artist stayed until 1930. Here, for example, she was seen in 1926 at the side of Peter Lorre and Hans Peppler as returning partners in the plays Faust, The Night is Ours, The Hard-Working Reader and The Girl on the Divan . Trude Brionne celebrated a particularly great success in 1928 as an interpreter and singer in the revue Jetzt oder nie…! .

In 1930 the native of Berlin followed a call back to her hometown. There Trude Brionne worked for a season at the German Art Theater, but in the same year (October 1930) she was seen again at Lorre's side in the Renaissance Theater, this time in the play Preliminary Investigation . At about the same time she was Werner Finck's partner in the opera Der Fältige . Then in 1931 she went to the Lessing Theater, directed by Fritz and Alfred Rotter , for another season . In the transition period from the Weimar Republic to the Nazi dictatorship, Trude Brionne was engaged at the German Art Theater, where she remained employed in the coming season. Before she could be excluded from the Reichstheaterkammer by the National Socialists in 1934 for so-called “racial reasons”, Gertrud von Borkenau married Count Ervín von Nostitz-Rieneck (1898–1952) on January 8, 1934 at his family palace near Karlsbad (Bohemia). Through this marriage, she was initially protected from further stalking in the Third Reich before the count couple emigrated to the USA. After the war, the couple returned to Europe and settled in Vienna.

With the film

Trude Brionne had worked in a number of films during her Berlin years from 1930 to 1933, but only rarely got major roles. She is most likely to be remembered with Katti Lanner's girlfriend, Susi, in Ludwig Berger's musical romance Walzerkrieg . In her other films she was mostly committed to the sweet daughter, simple employees (waitress, cook, housekeeper) or the nice girl next door. In the 1931 world success The Congress Dances she was only seen for a few seconds as one of several saleswomen in a glove shop.

Filmography (complete)

  • 1930: Va Banque
  • 1930: Bock beer festival
  • 1931: Ehe mbH
  • 1931: Congress dances
  • 1932: Scandal in Parkstrasse
  • 1932: Tenant Schulze against all
  • 1933: ... and who is kissing me?
  • 1933: Waltz War
  • 1933: You are delightful, Rosmarie!

literature

  • Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon , first volume, Bad Münder 1960, p. 147
  • 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. 122. Munich 1999

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trude Brionne in The Lost One. A Life of Peter Lorre. Pp. 458 f., University of Kentucky 2005.
  2. ↑ Report in Filmwelt No. 2 from January 14, 1934
  3. ↑ Gertrude von Nostitz-Rieneck on geneanet.org

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personal data
SURNAME Brionne, Trude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borkenau, Gertrude von; Nostitz-Rieneck, Gertrude Countess von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress on stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1995
Place of death Vienna