Trude Marlen

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Trude Marlen , actually Gertrude Albach (born November 7, 1912 in Graz as Gertrude "Trude" Marlen Posch , † June 9, 2005 in Vienna ), was an Austrian actress .

Life

Trude Marlen Posch was born as the daughter of an Austrian landowner. Together with her twin sister Cecilia and her sister Grete, she grew up in her native Graz. There she also took private acting lessons from Lori Weiser. This was followed by stage engagements in Brno , Berlin and Vienna. Trude Marlen, as she then called herself as an artist, became a very busy actress in the theater, as well as on the screen from 1933, when she made her feature film debut.

Until the 1940s, she mostly made light entertainment films as a UFA star, in which Willi Forst was often her partner. From 1943 she lived with the actor Wolf Albach-Retty (1906–1967), father of Romy Schneider . After his divorce from his first wife, Magda Schneider , he married Trude Marlen in 1947. Like all living at the time family members of the acting dynasty Albach-Retty was it, the second wife of the early funding member of the SS and Nazi party -Mitglieds Wolf Albach-Retty , enthusiastic supporter of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism . She was held in high esteem by Hitler and was "one of the few chosen to turn to him personally when she lacked roles". However, since she quickly made a career from 1933, she did not need the personal support of the "Führer". In Berlin it was "traded as the" German answer to Jean Harlow "". From 1941 to 1945 she was part of the ensemble of the renowned Vienna Burgtheater .

Burial place of Trude Marlen

Even after the end of the Second World War , she mainly played theater. She was one of the founding members of the Little Comedy in Vienna, where she worked extensively in the 1970s and 1980s. In addition, she gave numerous guest appearances on touring stages. In the film, on the other hand, she only appeared sporadically, but into old age. In 2001 she played alongside Leon Askin in the production Ene mene muh und tot bist du. It was to be the last film appearance for both old stars.

Trude Marlen died on June 9, 2005 at the age of 92. Like her twin sister and actress Cecilia Maximiliane Brantley , who died on August 17, 1997 , she was also buried next to her husband Wolf Albach-Retty in the grave of honor of her mother-in-law Rosa Albach-Retty (1874–1980) at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 32C, number 50) buried.

Her sister Grete Posch was the first wife of the Austrian tenor and composer Anton Maria Topitz (born February 26, 1887, † April 7, 1949). Marlen and Topitz were residents of the Berlin artists' colony .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c grave database of the Vienna cemeteries . Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Jacobsen: Posch, Trude Marlen, mentioned in:  Schneider, Romy. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 306 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b Stephanie D'heil: Trude Marlen. Biography in: steffi-line.de. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ Note: According to various sources, Albach-Retty's divorce from Magda Schneider took place in 1945 or 1946 or 1947.
  5. ↑ Georg Markus: What we have left, 2010, p. 75f.
  6. ^ Topitz, Anton Maria (own Anton Matthias). Entry in: Österreichisches Musiklexikon , Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Ed.), Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Marlen, Trude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albach, Gertrude (real name); Posch, Gertrude Marlen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2005
Place of death Vienna