This page will contain wikis about Lotte Lenya, as they become available.Lotte LenyaLotte Lenya (October 18, 1898 - November 27, 1981), singer and actor, born Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, in Vienna, Austria. As a child of working class parents, Lenya wanted to be a dancer. She moved to study in Zurich, Switzerland in 1914, taking up her first job at the Schauspielhaus. She moved to seek work in Berlin, Germany in 1921, where the following year she was seen by her future husband, the German composer Kurt Weill during an audition, although they did not meet properly until 1924, marrying him for the first time in 1926. After she accepted the part of Jenny in Die Dreigroschenoper in 1928, she was accepted into the local stage community and performed in a variety of musicals, especially those of Weill and his collaborator Bertolt Brecht. With the rise of Nazism in Germany, and being Jewish, and having become estranged from Weill, Lenya fled to Paris, France in March 1933, then on to the United States of America. She divorced Weill in 1933, and remarried him in 1937: he died in 1950. During World War II Lenya sang on stage and performed on Voice of America. After being coaxed back on stage after her husband's death, she appeared on Broadway in Barefoot in Athens and married writer George Davis. In 1954 she won a Tony Award for her role as Jenny in Marc Blitzstein's English version of Die Dreigroschenoper, The Threepenny Opera. Lenya went on to record a number of songs from her time in Berlin, as well as songs from the American theatre, in a distinctive husky low voice. The combination of singing and speaking called sprechstimme was devised by Weill to accommodate her voice. She was present in the studio when Louis Armstrong recorded Weill's "Mack the Knife". Armstrong improvised the line "Look out for Miss Lotte Lenya!" and added her name to the long list of Mack's female victims in the song for the English translation. After 1957 death of George Davis, she married the artist Russell Detwiler in 1962, who died aged 44 in 1969. Lenya appeared in a number of films, including:
and in some TV Films like:
She was also the narrator in George Grosz' Interregnum (1960) Lenya died in New York from cancer in 1981. She is entombed, with her first husband, in a mausoleum at the Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, New York. This page about Lotte Lenya includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about Lotte Lenya News stories about Lotte Lenya External links for Lotte Lenya Videos for Lotte Lenya Wikis about Lotte Lenya Discussion Groups about Lotte Lenya Blogs about Lotte Lenya Images of Lotte Lenya |
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She is entombed, with her first husband, in a mausoleum at the Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, New York. Metrosplash.com, which reaffirmed the protection given by the Communications Decency Act. Lenya died in New York from cancer in 1981. Masterson, who, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, portrayed an employee of Quark's Bar, was the victim in the legal case Carafano v. She was also the narrator in George Grosz' Interregnum (1960). Chase Masterson (born Christianne Carafano on 26 February 1963 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is an American actress, best known for the recurring role of Leeta on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. and in some TV Films like:. Lenya appeared in a number of films, including:. After 1957 death of George Davis, she married the artist Russell Detwiler in 1962, who died aged 44 in 1969. Armstrong improvised the line "Look out for Miss Lotte Lenya!" and added her name to the long list of Mack's female victims in the song for the English translation. She was present in the studio when Louis Armstrong recorded Weill's "Mack the Knife". The combination of singing and speaking called sprechstimme was devised by Weill to accommodate her voice. Lenya went on to record a number of songs from her time in Berlin, as well as songs from the American theatre, in a distinctive husky low voice. In 1954 she won a Tony Award for her role as Jenny in Marc Blitzstein's English version of Die Dreigroschenoper, The Threepenny Opera.. After being coaxed back on stage after her husband's death, she appeared on Broadway in Barefoot in Athens and married writer George Davis. During World War II Lenya sang on stage and performed on Voice of America. She divorced Weill in 1933, and remarried him in 1937: he died in 1950. With the rise of Nazism in Germany, and being Jewish, and having become estranged from Weill, Lenya fled to Paris, France in March 1933, then on to the United States of America. After she accepted the part of Jenny in Die Dreigroschenoper in 1928, she was accepted into the local stage community and performed in a variety of musicals, especially those of Weill and his collaborator Bertolt Brecht. She moved to seek work in Berlin, Germany in 1921, where the following year she was seen by her future husband, the German composer Kurt Weill during an audition, although they did not meet properly until 1924, marrying him for the first time in 1926. She moved to study in Zurich, Switzerland in 1914, taking up her first job at the Schauspielhaus. As a child of working class parents, Lenya wanted to be a dancer. Lotte Lenya (October 18, 1898 - November 27, 1981), singer and actor, born Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, in Vienna, Austria. The Gypsy in Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966). Mutter Courage in Brecht's Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (aka Mother Courage and her children) (1965). Bertolt Brecht's Übungstücke für Schauspieler (aka Practice Pieces) (1964). the role of a masseuse in Semi-Tough (movie) (1977). Emma Valadier in The appointment (movie) by Sidney Lumet (1969). the part of the lesbian villain Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia With Love (movie) (1963). The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (movie) (1965) which won her a nomination for an Academy Award. Pirate Jenny in Die Dreigroschenoper (aka The threepenny opera) (1931). |