Vilma Kürer
Vilma Kürer , in the USA Vilma Kurer , (born October 6, 1914 in Melk , Austria-Hungary , † February 4, 2008 in New York City , United States ) was an Austrian actress and cabaret artist .
Live and act
The Kürer, who comes from Melk in Lower Austria, had already gained stage experience when she received her first small film role in a German-language production in Hungary in 1937. In the same year she also worked as a dubbing actress and lent Deanna Durbin her voice in the Austrian dubbed versions of her successful films Drei sweet Mädels und 100 Männer um ein Mädchen by Henry Koster . The annexation of Austria by the National Socialists in March 1938 quickly led to their exclusion, and so Vilma Kürer decided in October 1938 to emigrate via Gdynia to the United States.
In New York she found employment at regular theaters and appeared, under the slightly Americanized name Vilma Kurer, in the following plays since the beginning of 1940: " Reunion in New York " (1940), " Wallflower " (1944), " The Privat Life of the Master Race ”(1945),“ Temper the Wind ”(1946),“ Faust ”(1947) and“ The Winner ”(1954). In addition, she was involved there (alongside colleagues such as Kitty Mattern and Ellen Schwanneke ) in Oscar Teller's emigrant cabaret "Die Arche" and was also seen in an exile performance of Arthur Schnitzler's Liebelei in April 1941 , where she was alongside well-known Viennese Colleagues like Adrienne Gessner , Arnold Korff , Hans Wengraf , Ludwig Donath and Oskar Karlweis , who played Fritz Lobheimer, performed.
In addition, Vilma Kürer was active in the US radio and spoke there for example in 1942 the female lead in Ben Hecht's " Crime Without Passion ". From 1949 onwards there were a number of offers for small roles in individual episodes of television series or series. 1952 was Kürer her American feature film debut in the from McCarthyism certain Cold War strips " Walk East on Beacon ". Until 1959 she can still be seen in television productions, after which the artist withdrew from acting, but remained in New York City (in the Bronx ) until the end of her life .
Vilma Kürer was temporarily married to the American actor Robert Barron (1923-2002).
Filmography
- 1937: The kidnapped bride
- 1949: Payment Deferred
- 1949: cousin Maria
- 1951: inspiration
- 1951: Diary of a Country Priest
- 1951: The Talking Jewel
- 1951: A Different World
- 1952: Walk East on Beacon
- 1954: Woman to Woman
- 1956: The Man Who Saved Moscow
- 1957: The Freedom Fighters of Hungary
- 1959: Dressed for the Kill
literature
- Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 587.
Web links
- Vilma Kürer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Vilma Kürer in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kürer, Vilma |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kurer, Vilma |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actress and cabaret artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melk , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 2008 |
| Place of death | New York City , United States |