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Vivian Maier
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Ishbel Maria Marjoribanks, Lady Aberdeen and Temair
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Mariama Bâ
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Aphra Behn
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Dorothea Zeemann
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Jeanne Proust
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born on October 3, 1858 in Vigevano, Italy
died on April 21, 1924 in Pittsburgh, United States
Italian actress
100th anniversary of her death on April 21, 2024
For many, she was the greatest actress of her time. Famous writers such as Pirandello, D'Annunzio and Alexandre Dumas fils wrote plays for her, and among poets, Rilke was one of her most ardent admirers. The formidable critic Alfred Kerr fell completely under her spell: "Never before and never again ... This is perfection. The miracle of the last beauty of the south...".
Her art of transformation and the naturalness of her acting were legendary. Outwardly rather inconspicuous, she could appear beautiful and ugly, tall and short, young and old on stage; if the moment demanded it, she could even blush and turn pale. She disregarded conventions: no makeup, no crinolines, no theatrical gestures carried out in accordance with the Manual of Stage Poses in vogue at the time! Above all, no artificiality in vocal lines: "According to the rules, you have to raise your voice in certain situations, to exaggerate. But when I have to express fierce passion ... I often become mute, and on…read more
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Gro Harlem Brundtland
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born on 29. December 1721 in Paris
died on 15 April 1764 in Versailles
French mistress, politician, patron (matron) of the arts
300th birthday on December 29, 2021
Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV of France, is synonymous throughout the world with "the" mistress par excellence. It is a irony of history that love games were probably the thing she was least good at - and it was only through them that she was able to get into a position to exercise her many other talents.
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson came from bourgeois circles of high finance. Her father François, sentenced to death as a stooge of two powerful bankers, had to leave France for many years. Meanwhile, her mother, Louise-Madeleine de La Motte, kept her head above water with the help of a lover: Charles-François Le Normant de Tournehem, who paid for an expensive education for little Jeanne and her brother Abel and may also have been Jeanne's biological father.
The pretty girl was educated at the Ursulines in Poissy and later received private lessons from the most famous artists of the time, including singing and acting. At the age of nine, she had already been…read more
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Bessie Smith
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Bernadette Soubirous
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Eva Gonzalès
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born on July 26, 1942 in Burghausen, Upper Bavaria, Germany
died on April 21, 2019 in Munich, Germany
German actor
5th anniversary of her death on April 21, 2024
"You only need to watch my movies to learn everything there is to know about me. In that respect I’m completely transparent – there’s simply nothing more about myself that I could reveal."
This was Hannelore Elsner’s reply to questions about her private life for a long time. Yet later she did indeed reveal more about herself; her candid autobiography, Im Überschwang (In Exuberance), was published in 2011.
She was born in Burghausen in 1942. After the death of her brother and father, she grew up in boarding school and with her grandparents. She went to drama school in Munich, where she also played her first roles in the theater.
She was only 17 when she made her film debut in Freddy unter fremden Sternen (Freddy under Foreign Stars). From 1959 to 1968, she appeared in no fewer than 10 feature films and 33 television productions. In the 1970s, she was frequently seen in quality films, working with her partner Alf Brustellin, Edgar Reitz and Dieter Wedel, among others. This…read more
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Hilde Benjamin
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Christina von Schweden
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