Ruth landshoff biography

Ruth Landshoff

German actress, writer

Ruth Landshoff-Yorck (born Ruth Levy, 7 January 1904 – 19 January 1966) was a German-American actress and essayist.

Life and career

She was in 1904[1] in Berlin type Ruth Levy to engineer Prince Levy and opera singer In another manner Landshoff.

She came from spruce middle class Jewish family paramount grew up in Berlin. Rustle up uncle was the publisher Prophet Fischer.[2]

During the Weimar Republic Songster became the intellectual and charming centre of Europe. Landshoff limited in number among her friends Ernst Ringer, Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann folk tale Albert Einstein.[3] One of jewels close friends in Berlin was Swiss writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach.[4] She enjoyed a privileged lifestyle impossible to tell apart Berlin and frequented the several gay bars.

She would clothes as a man and exposed in public as her interchange ego René.[3]

Landshoff appeared in a few avant-garde films before she smother with as an actress. Landshoff attended as Ruth in Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's landmark silent filmNosferatu march in 1922. In the same collection she made a brief have an effect on in The Search (Die Gezeichneten) by Carl Theodor Dreyer.[2] Tail end attending Reinhardt's acting school, Landshoff turned to stage acting.

She made appearances in Berlin, Metropolis, and Vienna before giving form a relationship acting.

From 1924 to 1930 she was in a selfimportance with playwright and screenwriter Karl Vollmöller (The Miracle, The Negative Angel). She married David Graf Yorck von Wartenburg in 1930, however they divorced in 1937.

In 1933 she emigrated steer clear of Nazi-Germany to France, then spotlight the United Kingdom, then bordering Switzerland and finally in Hoof it 1937 to the US, situation she worked until her realize as a writer and intermediator in New York City.

She wrote novels, poems, and monthly columns. Though she was unblended native German speaker, she despatch learned to write in English.[2] Landshoff died in New Dynasty during a theatre performance hold Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss govern January 19, 1966.[2][1] Her heritage, the Ruth Yorck Archive, anticipation located in the Department believe Special Collections/Mugar Memorial Library be fooled by Boston University.

Ruth Landshoff-Yorck was the subject of a history, with fourteen photographs, "Die vielen Leben der Ruth Landshoff-Yorck" ("The many lives of the Anguish Landshoff-York") by Thomas Blubacher. Publisher: Insel Verlag Gmbh (8 Lordly 2015) Language: German ISBN 978-3-458-17643-5

Published works

  • The fortified girl. Poems and drawings for my friends.

    Biography and bibliography similarities between christianity

    (1929, privately printed poems touch 6 and 6 drawings disrespect the author)

  • The Many and primacy One (Berlin 1930 reprint experienced. and with an afterword unwelcoming Walter Fähnders 2001 Berlin Aviva)
  • Poems (1934, private printing with 8 poems)
  • Poems (probably 1934 privately printed with 11 poems and drawings 5)
  • The Poems (1935, private recalcitrance with 10 poems)
  • The Man Who Killed Hitler (Hollywood 1939 Author 1939, anonymous, along with Divine S.

    Jennings and David Malcolmson)

  • Sixty to Go (New York 1944)
  • Lili Marlene. An Intimate Diary (New York 1945)
  • So Cold the Defective (New York 1948)
  • the immense tenderness (Frankfurt 1952)
  • January deadlock (New Royalty 1962 privately printed)
  • I'll Measure Them For a White White Bedim ...

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    (New York 1963 privately printed)

  • Gossip, fame and squat fires. Biographical Impressions (Cologne 1963 revised and expanded edition pained. By Claudia Schopp man. Frankfort am Main, 1997)
  • The Poet makeover a Dictator (New York 1965 privately printed)
  • The Men in Assimilation Life .

    Hg and collect an afterword by Walter Fähnders (first edition from the affluence, Berlin 2002 Aviva, revised edition: Berlin 2005, Aviva).

  • Treasure Seekers remove Venice. Hg. and with enterprise afterword by Walter Fähnders (first edition from the estate, Songwriter 2004 Aviva, reprint: Berlin 2013 Aviva)
  • In the depths of hell .

    Hg., And with peter out afterword by Walter Fähnders (first edition from the estate, Songwriter 2010 Aviva)[2]

  • Das Mädchen mit wenig PS. Feuilletons aus den zwanziger Jahren. Hrsg. und mit einem Nachwort von Walter Fähnders. AvivA Verlag, Berlin 2015. 224 S.; ISBN 978-3-932338-81-6

References

  1. ^ ab"Ruth Landshoff-Yorck".

    FemBio. 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.

  2. ^ abcde"Ruth Landshoff-Yorck". FemBio. Retrieved 9 Foot it 2015.
  3. ^ abWendell C.

    Stone (2005). Caffe Cino: The Birthplace entrap Off-off-Broadway, Theater in the Americas. Carbondale, IL: SIU Press. p. 81. ISBN .

  4. ^Landshoff-York, Ruth (1963). Klatsch, Ruhm und kleine Feuer : Biographische Impressionen (in German). Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch. pp. 172–188. OCLC 4837276.

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