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Biography of Lotte Lenya
Meets Weill
Lotte Lenya, née Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, was born on 18 October 1898 in Vienna to working-class parents. An abusive father and an early ambition to become a dancer led her in 1914 to Zurich, where she studied classical dance and the Dalcroze method and gained experience in the opera and ballet at the Stadttheater. As the acting student of Richard Révy, she then worked in repertory at the Schauspielhaus, where she appeared in dozens of productions and encountered artists of the stature of Elisabeth Bergner and Frank Wedekind. In 1921 she set out for Berlin with the hope of making a career as a dancer. During her audition for Zaubernacht in 1922, she was introduced to its composer, Kurt Weill, but couldn’t see him at his position at the piano in the pit. (She was cast, but out of loyalty to her teacher, who was not, she declined the offer.)
Marriage and Opera Roles
In 1924, the leading German Expressionist dramatist, Geor
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Lotte Lenya
Austrian singer and actress (1898–1981)
Lotte Lenya | |
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Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1962 | |
| Born | Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer (1898-10-18)18 October 1898 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 27 November 1981(1981-11-27) (aged 83) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1922–1980 |
| Spouses | Kurt Weill (m. 1926; div. 1933) (m. 1937; died 1950)George Davis (m. 1951; died 1957)Russell Detwiler (m. 1962; died 1969)Richard Siemanowski (m. 1971; sep. 1973) |
Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse,[1]