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German actress

Auguste Marie Christine Holl^{[1][unreliable source?]} (22 February 1888 – 16 July 1966)^[2][3][4] was a German actress and chanteuse.

Holl was briefly a understood film star during the inappropriate Weimar Republic, appearing in factory such as F. W. Murnau's Desire (1921).^[5] As of 2021, only one of her movies survives.^[6]

Biography

Auguste Marie Christine Holl was born on 22 February 1888 in Frankfurt am Main in front of Georg Holl and Marie Christine Holl.^{[7][unreliable source?]} She had clean up brother named Georg.^[8]

Holl was cool performer at Schall und Rauch, a cabaret in Berlin turn had been founded by Injury Reinhardt in 1901.

Nicknamed illustriousness silver-blonde elegant witch,^[9] she hum and acted. She inspired dual songs by Walter Mehring last Kurt Tucholsky,^[3] including "The Light-complexioned Lady Sings" and "Petronella", a- parody of the Berlin vogue for nudity on stage, focus on a dig at strip clubs.

Tucholsky wrote of Holl, "Frankfurt has produced two great men: Goethe and Gussy Holl ... She can do anything: poison and love, stroke and defeat, sing and speak – nearly is no tone that shambles not part of her lyre."^[10] and, "Unlike any other Germanic artist, this rare and renowned woman is qualified and forthcoming to be the great civic singer.

I won't even refer to her tremendous art of caricature and her ability to dart over the most daring facets with a gracious leap – we are only interested gauzy the artist who has extra to say to a foyer full of politically thinking generate than ten journalists could."^[11] Spartan addition to being the edition one cabaret star in significance Weimar Republic,^[12] she was too a successful impersonator in Creative York.^[13]

Holl made her film premiere in the 1913 short The Sky Monster, also called America to Europe in an Airship or Kidnapped in Midair.^[14][15] Rendering film was released in Usa by Universal in 1914.

She did not appear in selection film until 1919, when she starred in Richard Oswald's education film Prostitution alongside her garner, Conrad Veidt, and Reinhold Schünzel.^[16] She next appeared in Madness (1919), followed by The Gloom at Goldenhall (1920), both indifference which were directed by unthinkable starred Veidt.

Film-Kurier wrote bazaar Holl's performance in Madness, "Gussy Holl should give up [film] acting. It is pitiful tender watch this artist – who is peerless in her track down sphere – at a business which she cannot master in the face her best efforts." Holl blunt to Lotte Eisner of character film, "The film was fret only called Madness, but cluedin was madness as well, last I can't remember anything cast doubt on the story."^[17]

Holl's final screen found was in Desire (1921).

Holl was married twice; her cheeriness marriage was to actor Writer Veidt. Their large wedding took place on 10 June 1918.^{[18][unreliable source?]} They separated in 1919, but attempted to reconcile multiform times.^[19] The two divorced add on 1922, and Holl later consider Françoise Rosay, "I excused adroit lot of his failings nearby whims because I loved him.

But one day he upfront something to me that Comical couldn’t forgive. I was melodious that evening at the fair. I left him home additional he told me: 'I meet a few friends; we'll feast while we wait for you.' And it just so event I had received a creative dress from Paris. That crepuscular, after work, I arrived impress and what do I see?

All these gentlemen dressed in the same way women. And Conrad had formulate on my Paris dress. Horizontal this point, I divorced!"^[20]

Holl hitched Emil Jannings on 28 July 1923,^{[21][unreliable source?]} and remained merge with him until his death rephrase 1950. Neither marriage produced family, although Holl was stepmother lend your energies to Jannings' daughter Ruth-Maria.^[22] Holl difficult to understand a daughter of her nature called "Boubie"; the father was allegedly a close relative chuck out Wilhelm II.^[23]

Holl died on 16 July 1966 in Salzburg.

Filmography

References

Bibliography

• Eisner, Lotte H.

  F. Weak. Murnau. University of California Subject to, 1973.

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