December 30, 2014
Luise Rainer would in 2011 on their evaluation, with a golden star on the Boulevard of Stars in Berlin.Foto: AP
. Voice of denial: On the death of the great actress and intellectuals Luise Rainer
beauty is fleeting, but Luise Rainer’s natural grace was immune to the ravages of time , Even as the native from Düsseldorf in 2011 came to Berlin for a late ceremony on the “Avenue of the Stars” attend, her large eyes shone unmistakably in the girlish face, which was certainly wrinkled, nevertheless youthful. Since it was 101 – and at least in Germany almost forgotten screen goddess
Without Alfred Biolek, who had dedicated their 1998 full edition of his talk show, you would have the amazing life of the Jewish immigrant to. their homeland probably not taken note
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The unverrenkte Star
In the history of Hollywood, she went as a The star, who did not want to dislocate, which was not commercially available and almost immune to flattery. You have to watch the film recordings exist of her first Oscar-winning anno 1936 only once. Three times the ceremony was filmed for the first time the joy looks real, then Rainer posing merely dutiful. Long they should not join it. Whenever you their (vain) offered roles, she considered banal, they prefer praised her time at the Repertory Theatre, where you could play every night a different role. “You always learned something new.”
1936:” The Great Ziegfeld “.
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Between 1928 and 1931 she was part of the ensemble of the theater in Düsseldorf, then she took Max Reinhardt at the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt. After the first German film roles Hollywood studio mogul Louis B. Mayer in 1935 highlight the talented 25-year-old and lured them with a seven-year contract. Indeed, but then it was only three years, where she won two Oscars (the second 1937 for the Pearl S. Buck movie “The Good Earth”) – until they had enough of the dreams that you fabricated in Hollywood. And which was reflected also in the ambitions of many stars.
Once she sat at a dinner next to her colleague Robert Taylor and asked him about his ambitions. “He said that he wanted to buy ten different, snazzy suits. Since I was almost under the table “sees its few films, she often acts formally as an alien: So of course it is, marked by impressionism Reinhardt-school game in comparison to”. Hollywood Acting “
Luise Rainer in the Hollywood film “The Great Waltz” from the year 1938.Foto: AP
As Bertolt Brecht, she helped to gain a foothold in Los Angeles, she was too good for most of what Hollywood demanded. “Hollywood was for me one of those big hotels with a revolving door,” she said. “On the one hand, people head held walked in on the other side they left it with hanging heads.” Only a war film about the fate of occupied Germany Czechoslovakia attracted in 1943 once again back to Hollywood, the commitment to the competing Paramount Gym was a one-off guest appearance. But they became involved in the care of American troops in North Africa and Italy
. A model to date
The most her life she spent in London, where she lived in a luxurious apartment until recently. One of her Oscars she had given away when moving to a furniture mover (later ordered them but at the Academy replacement …). Maybe she was temporarily critically with their roles – for example in their contempt for Frank Borzage’s lovable taxi drivers drama “Big City”, where she excelled alongside Spencer Tracy. Or when her Federico Fellini vain antrug, a specially programmed role in “La dolce vita”. So we have seen less of Luise Rainer, as we would like. But what it is precisely for this reason remained to this day for a model. As the voice of the refusal of which has become almost a mantra likelihood of success with quality of fame with significance
Luise Rainer was certainly not the only rebel in Hollywood, but she was the quietest and most consistent yet. Which critical spirit, what a great intellectuals hid behind this girlish grace. On Tuesday she died, 104 years old, in London from pneumonia.
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