Luise Rainer is still the only German who won an Oscar for a leading role. And twice. Now the film Diva has died at the age of 104 years. Before the film museum commemorates a star of the actress.
Today, few know the name Luise Rainer, in the 1930s, she was one of the stars of the film factory Hollywood: In 1937, who grew up in Dusseldorf actress Oscar for her starring role in the theatrical revue “The Great Ziegfeld”, just one year later, she again won the most coveted film award, this time for Perl S. Buck movie “The Good Earth”. Yesterday Luise Rainer died a few days before her 105th birthday in their hometown London. The Düsseldorf Film Museum had tried in recent years to her memory
Rainer was one of the last witnesses of the golden age of Hollywood -. And also the beginnings of theater in Düsseldorf. She was born on January 12, 1910 in Dusseldorf. The father was a Jewish merchant, the family lived among other things, the star road. At 19, she entered the Theatre Academy of theater. The founder Louise Dumont and Gustav Lindemann certified her “unusual talent with unusual energy” – but had the ambitious wife their difficulties
Luise Rainer won after only one year of training a contract and played the entire range of the former theater literature. , Quickly, however, clouded the relationship with the theater. She refused to play small roles, often called in sick. End of 1930 sparked Lindemann the contract.
Luise Rainer went to the Theater an der Josefstadt in Vienna, which was directed by Max Reinhardt. Dusseldorf visited only a few times. In 1934, she was discovered by a talent scout of Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Studios (MGS) and took the opportunity to play in the film factory. Thus the Jew enfloh indirectly also the terror of the Nazis after the Anschluss in 1938.
In Hollywood, she was briefly marketed as a new Greta Garbo -. And as an Austrian. Your game was as clear as the American theatrical colleagues – also a consequence of their classical training in Dusseldorf. In 1936, she worked at MGM to date with the most expensive sound film production “The Great Ziegfeld” and won the Oscar, especially for a tearful scene in which she congratulates the impresario Ziegfeld as outcast first woman to re-marriage. The following year, she starred in “The Good Earth” a humble Chinese peasant. The role introduced her second Oscar.
Then followed a career break. She was also in Hollywood as strenuous star. The director of the film museum, Bernd Desinger, suspected of also the “typecasting” fell victim, so the definition of a role type. She focused on the family. 1946 daughter Francesca was born. A comeback alongside Marcello Mastroianni in Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960) failed because they wanted to make no bed scene. After the death of her second husband in 1989, she moved to the exclusive London district of Belgravia.
In Germany Rainer was long forgotten. Also as in Berlin, 2011, the “Boulevard of Stars” was founded, they should not get a star. Among other things, Desinger successfully advocated that it was still honored. As a result, Desinger came with the frail film Diva in touch. He met and began a letter exchange. Two years ago, Rainer was honored as the first female artist with a star in the floor at the entrance of the Filmmuseum.
The hopes that they could still arrive for ceremony, were not fulfilled. But Desinger reported that she was very glad to receive this award. “This has closed a circle for them.”
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