Vicky Werckmeister

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Vicky Werckmeister , also Vicki Werckmeister (born April 27, 1902 in Berlin as Viktoria Luise Werckmeister , † after 1965), was a German actress and singer .

Live and act

Viktoria "Vicky" Werckmeister-Langewort, the daughter of the film director Hans Werckmeister and the actress Luise Werckmeister , had received training in acting and dance before she began her stage career in 1918. In 1921 she played together with her mother in Trude Hesterberg's literary-political cabaret Wilde Bühne in Berlin. Then she appeared in the Metropol Theater .

In 1919 she received the first offer from the film . Directed by her father, she starred in the short film Margot's suitors . Numerous silent films followed , and the transition to the sound film era also worked seamlessly with the involvement in Dolly makes a career . Eight more films followed by 1933 - then engagements became less frequent. Her last film she made in 1937 with Marriage Institute Ida & Co .

Vicky Werckmeister got involved in the light muse and released some records with catchy, sometimes frivolous chansons . In addition to Hans Albers and Grete Weiser, she was successful as an actress and singer in the James Klein revue "Take off" at the Komische Oper Berlin. Her song, Mein Johannes, from this nude revue, is still sold on CD today . Other works can be heard on YouTube .

It is unknown whether her exit from the film business had anything to do with her artistic and critical engagement in the Weimar Republic and what became of her after her film career. But she stayed in Berlin. In October 1965, she signed off from there with an unknown destination, after which her track is lost.

Filmography

Discography (selection)

  • My Johannes, oh he can do it , chanson in: Perlen der Kleinkunst. Frivolous songs. Membrane Music Ltd. 2006
  • Just think about it, Mutti , song by Rolf Marbot (d. I. Friedel Albrecht Marcuse ), Parlophone B 12018-II, recording October 1, 1928
  • Voulez-vous, mon Papachen (obverse) and Mister Bondy (reverse), from The Duchess of Chicago by Emmerich Kálmán , Tri-Ergon 1928

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Birth register StA Berlin IV a, No. 313/1902
  2. a b lt. Film archive Kay Less
  3. Ulrich Liebe: Adored, persecuted, forgotten. Actor as a Nazi victim. Beltz, Weinheim and Basel 2005
  4. Program booklet James Klein's huge revue "Zieh 'dich aus" from 1928, published in full on the Internet at geo.de [1]