Trude Lieske
Trude Lieske (actually Gertrud Lieske ; born January 15, 1899 in Berlin , † 1993 in Bad Ischl , Austria ) was a German singer ( soubrette ) and actress.
Life
Lieske's parents came from Silesia . After finishing school, she first worked as an office clerk, but decided in 1915 to become an opera singer.
From 1919 she appeared on the following stages: 1919–20 Theater am Sophienplatz Kiel, 1920–21 Mellini Theater Hanover, 1921–22 Central Theater Magdeburg, 1923 Lessingtheater Berlin in the operetta Liebesstreik by Vörös Miska and Richard Wilde (with Grete Sedlitz and Karl Wallauer ), 1924–25 Neues Theater am Zoo Berlin, 1925–27 Nelson-Theater , 1927–28 Nelson-Revue Berlin in the revue Die Lichter von Berlin , 1928–31 Large Playhouse , 1929–30 also Berlin Theater .
In 1929 she sang in the great theater in the operetta Der liebe Augustin . Together with Max Hansen , she sang the world premieres of Ralph Benatzky 's operettas Casanova (1928), The Three Musketeers (1929) and Im Weisse Rößl (1930). All four productions were under the overall direction of Erik Charell .
From 1928 Trude Lieske played in some silent films and from 1930 in the first sound films, where she also sang.
In 1933 she married the Austrian librettist and music publisher Armin L. Robinson (1900–1985), with whom she emigrated to the USA in 1938 via England and Switzerland. Here she ended her acting career and devoted herself to her private life.
The couple returned to Europe in 1949 and lived first in Ticino, Switzerland and from 1957 in Haidenhof near Bad Ischl in the Salzkammergut . Armin Robinson died there in 1985, Trude Robinson-Lieske followed him eight years later.
Filmography
- 1929: asphalt
- 1929: Liebfraumilch
- 1930: two ties
- 1930: Terra Melophon magazine No. 1
- 1930: Come to my rendezvous
- 1932: I by day and you by night
literature
- Ulrich Tadday (Ed.): In the White Horse Inn - Between Art and Commerce . edition text + kritik, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-88377-841-9 , pp. 145–147.
- Trude Lieske , in: Frithjof Trapp: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945 . Volumes 1–2, Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3598113757 , p. 586.
- Trude Lieske , in: Berthold Leimbach (Hrsg.): Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898 to 1945 , Göttingen 1991.
- Trude Lieske on “himself” , in: Electrola monthly “Sketches”, October 1929.
Web links
- Trude Lieske at filmportal.de
- Trude Lieske in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Family grave at the Bad Ischl cemetery on zurerinnerung.at, accessed on January 19, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lieske, Trude |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lieske, Gertrud (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer (soubrette) and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1993 |
| Place of death | Bad Ischl , Austria |