Adelheid Luise "Adele" Spitzeder (; 9 February 1832 – 27 or 28 October 1895), also known by her stage name Adele Vio, was a German actress, folk singer, and con artist. Initially a promising young actress, Spitzeder became a well-known private banker in 19th-century Munich when her theatrical success dwindled. Running what was possibly the first recorded Ponzi scheme, she offered large returns on investments by continually using the money of new investors to pay back the previous ones. At the height of her success, contemporary sources considered her the wealthiest woman in Bavaria. Opening her bank in 1869, Spitzeder managed to fend off attempts to discredit her for a few years before authorities were able to bring her to trial in 1872.
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Adele Spitzeder
Adele Spitzeder | Introduction
Yes, she was a banker. Private banker She had a bank. Banking
who was adele spitzeder?
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German actress, folk singer, and con artist.
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what was she accused of?
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She was convicted instead of bad accounting and mishandling customers' money.
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Berlin
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Her "masculine" behavior is generally highlighted, such as her cigar smoking and surrounding herself with beautiful young women. Unable to restrict her lifestyle, she began to live at the expense of her creditors and accrued significant debt in Hamburg and Zurich while working there. In 1868, she returned to Munich with her girlfriend Emilie to await job offers from theatrical agents but did not receive any she wanted. Dejected and penniless, she only had her mother's stipend of 50 gulden to live on. The money, however, was not sufficient to pay for her lifestyle of residing in hotels and inns with her girlfriend and six dogs.
Adele Spitzeder | Acting career
According to her autobiography, her success there led to conflicts with the other actors which in turn led her to leave the engagement after six months for health reasons. She then returned to Munich for six months to recuperate. Despite her mother's urging, she returned to acting at Nuremberg where she was engaged for a year. Afterwards, she played in Frankfurt, Bern, Zürich, Mainz and Karlsruhe. After returning to Munich to visit her mother, she was offered an acting job in Pest with annual salary of 3,000 gulden which she turned down at her mother's wishes. Her mother offered her 50 gulden per month for life if she turned the job down.
Adele Spitzeder | Acting career
Adele was born in St. Louis to Adolph Burgdorfer and Mary Elizabeth Frederick, both of whom were immigrants from Germany. Before moving to Los Angeles at the age of 16, she worked in a movie theater, where she got to watch countless films. Once she arrived in L.A., she got a job selling tickets at a theater in Hollywood; she worked as a treasurer for several theaters during this time period.
Adele Buffington | Early life
Wanting to follow in her parents' footsteps and against her mother's wishes, Spitzeder studied with Munich actresses Konstanze Dahn and Charlotte von Hagn. In 1856 or 1857, she debuted at the Hofbühne in Coburg to great acclaim playing Deborah and Mary Stuart. In her memoirs, she claims that the Duke of Coburg and the Duke of Württemberg both praised her talent. Since there were no vacancies at Coburg, she left the Hofbühne to take an engagement at Mannheim before returning to Munich for a few guest roles at the National Theatre. Despite being offered a contract to play there, she knew that she would only be tasked with playing supporting roles due to fierce competition and thus decided to instead work at the theater of Brno.
Adele Spitzeder | Acting career
Adele Neuhauser (born 17 January 1959 in Athens, Greece) is an Austrian actress. She began her career as a theater actress. Later she also worked for television and cinema. She is a member of the Akademie des Österreichischen Films.
Adele Neuhauser | Introduction
In need of a new companion, Spitzeder placed an advertisement in the local newspapers for a "Gesellschafterin" ("lady's companion"), a code that was known to refer to women seeking a female romantic partner. Out of a large number of applicants, she chose a French woman who however apparently did not understand the code and thus left her house after only a few weeks. Shortly afterwards, Rosa Ehinger moved into the house next door with her mother. Originally from Augsburg, Ehinger had dreams of becoming an actress, so Spitzeder, 19 years her senior, took the young woman, who soon started working in her bank, in and showered her with lavish gifts.
Adele Spitzeder | Personal life
She lived in Bad Wildbad for ten months where she started writing music for the pianino. She met the director of a theater in Altona who offered her a guest role but she was received negatively. The local "Altonaer Generalanzeiger" newspaper commissioned the production of small whistles which they sold as "Spitzeder-whistles" for people to use at her next performance. Spitzeder however refused to act on the stage in Altona again and left the town for Berlin where people waited in anticipation to see the famous fraudster. However, before she could perform, the Berlin police prevented her performance and forced her to depart the city the same day, so she returned to Munich.
Adele Spitzeder | Later life and death
Nevertheless, she took one last engagement in Altona. During one of her engagements, she met Emilie Stier, stage name Branizka, a fellow actress with whom she soon began a romantic relationship. Despite multiple engagements over a period of many years, she failed to achieve lasting success on the stage. The contemporary source "Der Neue Pitaval" attested that she had the necessary talent but attributed her lack of success to her appearance. In his biography of Spitzeder, Julian Nebel cites a contemporary describing her as having a "not very beautiful, square face with rough traits, out of which a long, broad nose protrudes; the mouth is broad, the chin pointy, the gray eyes hard to read, a real butch".
Adele Spitzeder | Acting career
Haenel was born on 11 February 1989 in Paris. Her mother is a teacher and her father is a translator. She grew up in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis in what she described as "a very left-wing, artistic neighborhood". She has Austrian heritage through her father and speaks some German. Haenel started acting at the age of 5 and was involved in local theatre. As a child, Haenel would mimic cartoon characters, particularly the characters of Tex Avery. Haenel studied economics and social sciences at the Lycée Montaigne. She had planned to attend HEC Paris and took a preparatory course, but ultimately failed the entrance exam.
Adèle Haenel | Early life
Adelheid Luise "Adele" Spitzeder (; 9 February 1832 – 27 or 28 October 1895), also known by her stage name Adele Vio, was a German actress, folk singer, and con artist. Initially a promising young actress, Spitzeder became a well-known private banker in 19th-century Munich when her theatrical success dwindled. Running what was possibly the first recorded Ponzi scheme, she offered large returns on investments by continually using the money of new investors to pay back the previous ones. At the height of her success, contemporary sources considered her the wealthiest woman in Bavaria. Opening her bank in 1869, Spitzeder managed to fend off attempts to discredit her for a few years before authorities were able to bring her to trial in 1872.
Adele Spitzeder | Introduction
Adelheid Luise Spitzeder was born on 9 February 1832 in Berlin. Her parents were the actors and singers Josef Spitzeder and Elisabeth "Betty" Spitzeder-Vio. She had six half-siblings from her father's first marriage to Henriette Schüler. Her parents met in Berlin where both were engaged at the Königsstädtisches Theater, Josef as a director and Betty as an actress; they married in 1831. That year, he performed as a guest at the National Theater in Munich to critical acclaim. King Ludwig I offered him and his wife a salary of 6,000 gulden yearly if they took a permanent engagement at the National Theater, which led to the family moving to Munich.
Adele Spitzeder | Early life
No longer able to find work in Germany, she left for Vienna but the authorities there forbade any contact between her and the theater's director. Unable to perform under her own name, she began composing music and performing as Adele Vio. In 1878, she published her memoir entitled "Geschichte meines Lebens" (Story of my life). In it, she had formulated plans for after her release from prison, such as opening a brewery in the Au, a large restaurant in western Munich, and a horse racing track near Nymphenburg Palace, none of which came to fruition. After releasing her memoir, she again began to give out promissory notes that now contained explicit warnings that she was not providing any security and that the creditor has to be willing to waive any rights of reimbursement if she was not able to pay them back.
Adele Spitzeder | Later life and death
Adele enjoyed a long and varied entertainment career. As a teenager she performed in the circus as an acrobat on the high wire, and as a contortionist. At the age of 19 she began a three-year stint entertaining US troops in Korea and Japan. In 1971 she was part of the New South Wales Concert Party, entertaining Australian troops in Vietnam. After this she performed steadily in vaudeville theatre and as a show girl.
Jan Adele | Early career
In 2008 Neuhauser underwent a vocal cord surgery due to deposits and a Reinke's edema on the vocal cords. The pitch of her voice has thus increased a little and she has since then not been addressed anymore on the phone as "Mr. Neuhauser".
Adele Neuhauser | Career
At the beginning of her career, she had roles in movies in which she was usually cast as a blonde floozy or burlesque dancer, as in "Down to Earth" starring Rita Hayworth (1947) and "The Dark Past" starring William Holden (1948).
Adele Jergens | Early life and career
Born in Berlin, Bauer studied voice at the Berlin University of the Arts, graduating with distinction. She made her stage debut in the 1999/2000 season at the Staatstheater Cottbus. She has performed freelance since 2003, appearing as Adele in "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss at the Volksoper in Vienna, and at the Semperoper in Dresden, the Staatsoper Hannover, and the Staatsoper Berlin, among others. She performed at the Tyrolean State Theatre as Blonde in Mozart's "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" and at the Oregon Bach Festival as Lisette in the world premiere of Mendelssohn's "Der Onkel aus Boston", conducted by Helmuth Rilling.
Julia Bauer | Career
Born in Brooklyn, New York, as Adele Louisa Jurgens (some sources say Jurgenson), she rose to prominence in the late 1930s when she was named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In the early 1940s, she briefly worked as a Rockette and was named the number-one showgirl in New York City. After a few years of working as a model and chorus girl, including being an understudy to Gypsy Rose Lee in the Broadway show "Star and Garter" in 1942, Jergens landed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures in 1944, with brunette Jergens becoming a blonde.
Adele Jergens | Early life and career
Neuhauser wanted to be an actress since she was six. 1976 - 1978 she trained as actor at the drama school "Schauspielschule Krauss". In her early twenties she moved to Germany and began to play at theaters in Münster, Essen, Regensburg, at the Staatstheater Mainz and occasionally also in Vienna. Neuhauser gained nationwide attention for playing as woman Mephisto in Faust at the Stadttheater Regensburg. In addition, she also starred in movies ("Helden in Tirol", "Gone – eine tödliche Leidenschaft", "Wo ist Fred?", "The Perlmutterfarbe", "3faltig") and television series ("Tatort", "Polizeiruf 110" and "Sinan Toprak ist der Unbestechliche") and became widely known for her distinctive voice, in particular through her role of the farmer's wife Julie Zirbner in the ORF production "Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall".
Adele Neuhauser | Career
Adele Kibre was born in Philadelphia in 1898, and grew up in Los Angeles. Her family was involved in Hollywood life; her parents designed sets and one sister was married to a silent film star.
Adele Kibre | Early life and education
In 2016 Haenel made her German language debut in the film "The Bloom of Yesterday" playing the French descendant of German Holocaust survivors.
Adèle Haenel | Career
She was arrested again in 1880 for attempting to open a new bank without having the necessary permits but later released without charges. Spitzeder performed as a folk singer, living off friends and benefactors, but she never left her criminal life completely behind her, resulting in further trials and periods of incarceration. She died of cardiac arrest on 27 or 28 October 1895 in Munich.
Adele Spitzeder | Introduction
She was under contract as a stage actress to the Comédie-Française who refused to release her from her contract. It became a legal dispute but in the end Adjani was able to play the part.
The Story of Adele H. | Production
She sang the role of Adele in "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss at the Royal Opera House in London in 1983, conducted by Plácido Domingo, alongside Kiri Te Kanawa as Rosalinde, among others. The production was staged by Humphrey Burton and recorded as a television film and on DVD. In 1988, she appeared as Elsa in Wagner's "Lohengrin" at the Staatsoper Hannover, and as Elisabeth in "Tannhäuser" at the Nationaltheater Mannheim.
Hildegard Heichele | Career
In a 2013 interview, Tolbert stated, "I’ve only had one job in my entire life… professional actress." She got her first film part from Martin Scorsese in the early 1970s, when she was in acting school.
Berlinda Tolbert | Career
Spitzeder never married, and she rejected numerous marriage proposals, including ones from men of the aristocracy. Despite her demonstrative Christian demeanor at a time when official Catholic doctrine declared homosexuality a sin, she tended to have an entourage composed mostly of young, attractive women. She was in relationships with multiple women. Spitzeder's first documented relationship was during her time in Brno with fellow actress Josefine Gallmeyer. However, as Gallmeyer was erratic and quickly grew bored with her, the relationship soon ended and Spitzeder left Brno for Munich. At some point during her acting career she met Emilie Stier (stage name Branizka) with whom she returned to Munich in 1868.
Adele Spitzeder | Personal life
Ida Seltzer, later Adele Starr, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 10, 1920, the daughter of an accountant and a homemaker.
Adele Starr | Early life
Adele Stolte (12 October 1932 - 26 September 2020) was a German soprano singer in concert and Lieder, and an academic voice teacher.
Adele Stolte | Introduction
Broadbent was born in Napier, New Zealand, on 17 April 1968.
Adele Broadbent | Biography
Adele Jergens (November 26, 1917 – November 22, 2002) was an American actress.
Adele Jergens | Introduction
Adele Buffington (born Adele Burgdorfer, and sometimes billed as Jess Bowers) was an American screenwriter of the silent and sound film eras of Hollywood.
Adele Buffington | Introduction
Haenel made her film debut in 2002 at the age of 12, playing an autistic girl in the film "Les Diables". She had been chosen for the lead role after accompanying her brother to the audition. After "Les Diables", Haenel took a five-year break from acting. In 2007, she was persuaded by casting director Christel Baras (who had cast her in her film debut) to resume her film career, taking up the part of a synchronised swimmer in Céline Sciamma's debut feature "Water Lilies". Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" highlighted Haenel's performance in an otherwise mixed review of the film, recognizing her as having "the makings of a real star".
Adèle Haenel | Career
Adele Garavaglia (1869–1944) was an Italian stage and film actress.
Adele Garavaglia | Introduction
Aside from her former position as acting governor, Van der Pluijm-Vrede is a notary. She has her own notary office since 1994.
Adèle van der Pluijm-Vrede | Other career
She also appeared there as a concert singer. Parallel to her engagements in Vienna and Salzburg, she developed a lively guest performance activity. In 1929 and 1931 she took part in two exemplary Max Reinhardt productions in Berlin: as Adele in the "Fledermaus" (at the Deutsches Theater) and as Olympia in "The Tales of Hoffmann" (at the Großes Schauspielhaus). In 1931 and 1933 she was a guest at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, where her Sophie was especially admired in the "Rosenkavalier". In 1933 she took over the role of Hannerl Krüger in "Voices of Spring", a feature film by Pál Fejös.
Adele Kern | Salzburg Festival
Johann Strauss II/arr. Ralph Benatzky) was produced. She appeared as Adele in Max Reinhardt's production of "Die Fledermaus" 200 times. Anni Frind retired from professional singing at the outbreak of World War II, subsequently marrying. At the end of the war she sang for Allied soldiers at the front and worked as a volunteer nurse. Anni Frind-Sperling moved to New Orleans in 1951, and became a singing teacher at Newcomb College Tulane University. She died 1987 in New Orleans aged 87.
Anni Frind | Introduction
She was popular in so called breeches roles: her voice was described as very deep and suitable for such parts.
Elise Hwasser | Career
Geras was born in Jerusalem, British Mandatory Palestine. Her father was in the Colonial Service and she had a varied childhood, living in countries such as Nigeria, Cyprus, Tanganyika (now the mainland part of Tanzania), Gambia and British North Borneo in a short span of time. She attended Roedean School in Brighton and then graduated from St Hilda's College, Oxford with a degree in Modern Languages. She was known for her stage and vocal talents, but decided instead to become a full-time writer.
Adèle Geras | Early life
As the Astaires' popularity grew, both Adele and Fred were featured in major advertising campaigns. While in London, Peter Pan creator J. M. Barrie asked Adele to play his creation on stage, but contractual reasons forced her to turn down the part. In early 1924, Adele received word that her father, Fritz, had died from cancer.
Adele Astaire | Broadway career (1917–1932)
Briesewitz was born in Leverkusen, Germany. She was exposed to film at an early age, watching them on German television, eventually cultivating a preference for French "Nouvelle Vague" and Italian cinema. In an interview, she recounted that Francois Truffaut's "Day for Night", "The Story of Adele H" and "The Man Who Loved Women," were some of the films that made strong impressions on her as a child. Later, Briesewitz considered training to be a painter, but decided it was too isolated as a career. She had an internship with a German television company, before she applied and completed a cinematography program at AFI Conservatory.
Uta Briesewitz | Biography
brought Adele Spitzeder's story to the stage as a play for marionettes in the 1870s. In 1972, Martin Sperr wrote a television movie that was directed by Peer Raben and starred Ruth Drexel as Spitzeder. The play "Die Spitzeder" by Sperr was first performed on 11 September 1977. In 1992, the Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcast the documentary "Adele Spitzeder oder das Märchen von den Zinsen" ("Adele Spitzeder or the fairy tale about the interest") by . Xaver Schwarzenberger adapted the story again as a television movie titled "Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder" ("The seducer Adele Spitzeder"). It was produced by the Bayerischer Rundfunk and the ORF, starred Birgit Minichmayr as Adele Spitzeder and was first broadcast on 11 January 2012.
Adele Spitzeder | In popular culture
In October 2010 she appeared as Dryad in "Ariadne auf Naxos" at the Theater an der Wien, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
Maria Radner | Career (2009–2015)
At the age of 46 she had to retire from the stage because of a heart condition. She died in 1980 and was buried at Ostfriedhof in Munich.
Adele Kern | Berlin and Munich
Louis and other cities took place in the early part of May 1890. Lewing was a composer as well, and in her youth, she wrote poetry. Lewing continued performing on the radio throughout the 1920s and into the early 1930s.
Adele Lewing | Career
After having participated in the show ' in 2011 and collaborated on ' (2010–12), she is a regular columnist for the program "Le Cercle", hosted by Frédéric Beigbeder on Canal+ Cinéma.
Adèle Van Reeth | Career
She lived in Kansas City, Missouri where she did some radio spots, then moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to work on her acting career. In an interview in "Lawrence Journal-World", she said that she was not getting much on-camera work, so she shifted her energies towards voice-over work, and that her experience with dialogue and Shakespeare classes helped a lot towards landing roles that involved various characters, some of which had accents or were from certain time periods.
Kari Wahlgren | Early life and career
In 1958 she made her debut at the New York City Opera as Adele in "Die Fledermaus". She also sang several roles with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera during the 1950s and 1960s.
Monte Amundsen | Biography
The two created a new, production-oriented musical theatre in Frankfurt and took care of the musical and dramatic development of the young singer. Kern was to be regarded as a Clemens Krauss singer for many years (and she later worked at the state operas of Vienna, Berlin and Munich during his time as director). In Frankfurt she was already able to acquire numerous roles of her later very extensive role repertoire. In February 1926 she was also involved in the premiere of an opera by Bernhard Sekles. In 1927, she undertook a major South American tour. as well as in ten performances of Marcelline in "Fidelio", embodied 38 times Adele in "Die Fledermaus", sang - besides Zerbinetta - 5 times Fiakermilli, 6 times one of the maids in "Elektra" and 40 times Sophie in "Der Rosenkavalier".
Adele Kern | Life
Shermet was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 1, 1920. Following her college graduation, she honed her acting skills at the Pasadena Playhouse. After that, she moved to New York City, where she began work with the Al Paul Lefton Co. agency as an advertising copywriter at the age of 19. Throughout her career, Shermet credited her early work in advertising, as well as her studies at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh), where she studied acting and graduated in 1941, for her longevity in the entertainment industry. She appeared opposite Jack Albertson in the Broadway production of "The Cradle Will Rock" in 1947 when she was heard as an attendant's voice.
Hazel Shermet | Early life and career
Adele-Anaïs Colin Toudouze (1822 – 1899) was a fashion plate illustrator born in the Ukraine. She was born to a painter and lithographer, Alexandre-Marie Colin and his wife, who was also a painter.
Adele-Anaïs Colin Toudouze | Introduction
On screen she became restricted to being a secretary, a domestic and a waitress, and so began to refuse this type of role. In 1945 while a student of André Brunot at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique in Paris she took part in a televised play by Courteline; at the time she was only recognized as an actress, with her singing career yet to begin. In the 1950s, living in the Boulevard Malesherbes, Paris, already well-known on disc, she had facilities for recording at her apartment.
Denise Benoît | Life and career
Zellweger said of the job, "I learned a lot. As much as I did in my classes that that club paid for... I learned not to judge people, [and] that things are not black and white." Zellweger began getting small parts acting, and earned her Screen Actors Guild card for doing a Coors Light commercial. Also while in college, she did "a bit part ... as a local hire" in the Austin-filmed horror-comedy film "My Boyfriend's Back", playing "the girl in the beauty shop, maybe two lines. But the beauty shop [scene] got cut." Her first job after graduation was working in a beef commercial, while simultaneously auditioning for roles around Houston, Texas.
Renée Zellweger | Early life
She further debuted as Adèle in "Le comte Ory" at La Scala and returned into a revival of "Hansel and Gretel" at the Metropolitan Opera. In 2015, she debuted at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Violetta in "La traviata" and returned to "Il turco in Italia" at the Royal Opera House, for which she won the Best Female Singer in the Bachtrack Opera Awards. She then performed the title role in "Maria Stuarda" at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
Aleksandra Kurzak | International career
Odilon started acting as the apprentice of German stage actor Ludwig Barnay at his Berlin theater. In the early 1890s, she traveled to the Volkstheater in Vienna to replace actress Adele Sandrock. In Berlin, Odilon was best known for her ingénue roles and it was believed that she was more suited towards comedy in those roles. She was one of the few German actresses of the time to be successful in London. Her first role in New York was in the play "The Star", which was shown at the Irving Place Theatre. "The Star" was written by Herman Bahr, a well known dramatist from Vienna.
Helene Odilon | Career
Once back in New York, she worked as a sales assistant in the stationery department of Tiffany's"I was terrible at it, and kept sending out orders to Houston, Wyoming and Sacramento, Nevada"and took secretarial night classes that led to a job at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut. But she also began to investigate the possibility of earning money from her voice. Offering herself as a freelance singer for hire, she found employment in cocktail bars where "customers were not expected to listen, and didn't", and she took part in a promotional industrial musical staged for the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
Frederica von Stade | Young adulthood
One of her employees was Rosa Ehinger, whose beauty and charm Spitzeder used to attract young men to the bank. Spitzeder's business practices and accounting were unconventional and chaotic. Money was deposited in large sacks and in various cupboards. Her employees, all or almost all without training in accounting, regularly simply took money, with the accounting being restricted to recording the names of depositors and the amounts they paid in, often only signed with "XXX" by her illiterate customers. Her business relied solely on acquiring new customers quickly enough to pay existing customers with the newly acquired money. According to some sources, hers was the first known Ponzi scheme.
Adele Spitzeder | Growth of business
She spent much of her youth in Brockwell Park where she would play the guitar and sing to friends, which she recalled in her 2015 song "Million Years Ago". She stated, "It has quite monumental moments of my life that I’ve spent there, and I drove past it [in 2015] and I just literally burst into tears. I really missed it." Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon in May 2006, where she was a classmate of Leona Lewis and Jessie J. Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent even though, at the time, she was more interested in going into A&R and hoped to launch other people's careers.
Adele | Early life
Back at the Volkstheater in 1902, she was not able to continue her success on the stage. In 1905 he moved back to Berlin, to work at the Deutsches Theater led by Max Reinhardt. In 1911 Sandrock made her silent film debut in "Marianne, ein Weib aus dem Volk," a short subject. She acted in more than 140 films, working with a number of directors including Reinhold Schünzel and Hans Hinrich, and even continued her career into the sound film era with her characteristic dark voice. Her autobiography, "Mein Leben", was published in 1940.
Adele Sandrock | Life
Adele Passy-Cornet (22 January 1838 – 2 November 1915) was a German opera singer (soprano).
Adele Passy-Cornet | Introduction
Adele and her husband were art collectors and enthusiastic patrons of the opera, but in 1910 she described herself as "a humble social worker".
Adele Meyer | Introduction
Adele Sandrock (, 19 August 1863 – 30 August 1937) was a German-Dutch actress. After a successful theatrical career, she became one of the first German movie stars.
Adele Sandrock | Introduction
Balkan was born in Berkeley, California, in 1907, and lived in Berkeley and San Francisco, California, until the age of 10, when her father, a traveling salesman, moved the family to Boston, Massachusetts, and New York City, New York. Later the family resettled on the West Coast. A dancer as a child, she studied with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn at Denishawn and auditioned for Ziegfeld and George White's Scandals. She entered art school after graduating from Berkeley High School, eventually graduating from Cooper Union. After moving to Los Angeles in 1934, Balkan sought a job at Paramount. "I wanted to be [at Paramount], because I had seen Travis Banton's name on the screen for credit for the costumes, in the movies, and I loved his work.
Adele Balkan | Early life and education
Alma Adèle Louise Almati née Heitmann (1861–1919) was a German-born Swedish mezzo-soprano opera singer who sang at the Royal Swedish Opera between 1886 and 1897. Important roles included Amneris in "Aida", Azucena in "Il trovatore" and Brünhilde in "Die Walküre".
Adèle Almati | Introduction
Adele Marie Austerlitz was born on September 10, 1896, in Omaha, Nebraska. Her parents were Johanna "Ann" Geilus, an American-born Lutheran of German descent, and Frederic "Fritz" Austerlitz, an Austrian-born Roman Catholic of Jewish descent. Adele's younger brother, Fred Austerlitz, was born three years after her. After Adele showed an early propensity for dance, she was enrolled in a local dance school. She soon stood out for her natural ability as a dancer, and began making appearances at local recitals and parties. Her parents decided to enroll Fred as well — a somewhat frail child in his earliest years — with the intention of having him build strength through dance training, and he, too, showed the beginnings of aptitude.
Adele Astaire | Early life and vaudeville (1896–1917)
However, she decided to study acting and auditioned for several roles.
Danielle Harold | Career
Galafrés was born in Berlin. She trained as a pianist, and debuted as a concert pianist at the age of 14 on December 1, 1893, together with the Berlin Philharmonic. Although this performance was well received, she decided not to pursue a career in music and she decided to become an actress. At the age of fifteen, her talent was performed at a charity stages in Havelberg , presentational acting and she played on the stage of the Urania Theater. After taking lessons with Ottilie Genée, Friedrich Haase gave her the opportunity to make her first appearance on the occasion of his guest performance in Halle .
Elsa Galafrés | Biography
Truffaut later wrote to a friend: You mention the pleasure I must have directing Isabelle A. It's the opposite of pleasure, it's daily suffering for me, and almost an agony for her. For her profession is her religion, and because of that our shoot is a trial for everyone. It would be too easy to say she is difficult, she is not. She is different from all the women in this profession and since she isn't even 20, add to all this (to her genius, let's not be afraid of words), an unawareness of others and their vulnerability, which creates an unbelievable tension.
The Story of Adele H. | Filming locations
Sara Sperati (born October 7, 1956), born as Adele Sperati, was an Italian film actress. She was a minor starlet in 1970s Italian genre films.
Sara Sperati | Introduction
She also spent time between London and Ireland growing up. She was quiet in school, and developed an interest in Egyptology when she visited the Louvre at age seven. At age 14, after seeing Isabelle Adjani in "The Story of Adele H.", Green decided to become an actress. Her mother initially feared that an acting career would be too much for her sensitive daughter, but later came to support her ambitions. Green continued her studies at St. Paul Drama School in Paris, and took an acting course at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After that, Green returned to Paris, where she performed in several plays.
Eva Green | Early life
Hale was born in Ilford, Essex to publicans Elsie (née Fordham) and George Robert Hole. She later said she had: As a teenager, she worked as an apprentice hairdresser and studied Stanislavski's method approach to acting at a fledgling studio, the Chelsea Actors' Workshop, in London, before being accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she graduated in 1965.
Georgina Hale | Life and early career
Johann Josef Spitzeder (–1832) was a German actor and singer. A popular artist in his own right, he is today mostly remembered for being the father of confidence trickster and actress Adele Spitzeder. Spitzeder's year of birth is unclear. According to the "Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815-1950", Spitzeder was born on 2 September 1794 in Bonn (North Rhine-Westphalia). His entry in the "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie" quotes a contemporary source as saying that he was born in 1795, similarly in Bonn, while the "Directory of German Biography" gives his birth year as 1796 and his place of birth as Kassel. He was educated by Joseph Weigl in Vienna where he got his start as an opera singer in 1816.
Josef Spitzeder | Introduction
Adele Kern real name Adele Kern-Klein (25 November 1901 – 6 May 1980) was a German operatic and operetta coloratura soprano. She was known for her technical perfection and joy of playing. From 1927 to 1935, she sang at the Salzburg Festival as well as at the state operas of Vienna, Berlin and Munich. She was one of the impressive ranks of Austrian and German "soprani leggeri" who made international careers in the 1920s and 1930s, including Irma Beilke, Erna Berger, Irene Eisinger, Ria Ginster, Maria Ivogün, Fritzi Jokl and Lotte Schöne.
Adele Kern | Introduction
Musicologist Elizabeth Forbes describes her singing in this words: ″Her voice, bright-toned, light and very flexible, and her charming, diminutive appearance, invariably drew adjectives such as 'enchanting' and 'winsome' from the critics.″ The year 1930 can be considered as her break-through in both Germany and Austria as she debuted as Adele in Max Reinhardts version of "Die Fledermaus", as Cherubino in Mozarts "Le nozze di Figaro" at the Salzburg Festival and again as Adele at the Vienna State Opera. Furthermore, in this year her first sound film was released, the light comedy "Two Hearts in Waltz Time" – with Eisinger as Anni Lohmeier and with famous and popular actor Willi Forst in a leading role.
Irene Eisinger | Operas and films
As a Modern Languages student, she was required to spend her third year abroad, and studied in Paris. She then decided to quit university to concentrate on her burgeoning acting career: "It was getting to the point where I wasn't enjoying either thing enough because both were very high pressure."
Kate Beckinsale | Early life
She works in both Los Angeles and New York City, calling herself "bicoastal."
Adele Uddo | Personal life
Another contemporary source, a 1872 article in the "Münchner Neueste Nachrichten" citing her indictment, claims her first money lending activities started in the spring of 1869.
Adele Spitzeder | Spitzedersche Privatbank
She studied acting at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Early in her career, she performed at many DC area theatres including: Woolly Mammoth, The Source and the Kennedy Center. She currently works in Los Angeles as an actress and voice-over artist.
Audrey Wasilewski | Early life
Adele Givens, (born July 1, 1960 or September 10, 1960) is an American comedian, actress and writer. Beginning her career during the late–1980s in comedy, Givens television appearances include "The Hughleys", "Moesha", "The Parkers", "Comedy Central Presents", "Def Comedy Jam", "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry", "Martin", "Tracey Takes On..." and "The Steve Harvey Show".
Adele Givens | Introduction
In 1936, she was a dancer in The Great Ziegfeld. Over her career, Lacy starred in musicals and westerns, and she was also a pinup girl and chorus girl. While in films, she worked with Tex Ritter, Hoot Gibson, and Eddie Cantor.
Adele Lacy | Career
Adèle Exarchopoulos (Greek: Αντέλ Εξαρχόπουλος; ; born 22 November 1993) is a French actress. She is best known for her leading role as Adèle in "Blue Is the Warmest Colour" (2013), for which she earned international attention and critical acclaim; at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, she became the youngest person in the history of the festival to be awarded the Palme d'Or. For her performance in "Blue Is the Warmest Colour", she won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, the César Award for Most Promising Actress, and the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year, among dozens of other accolades.
Adèle Exarchopoulos | Introduction
Arendt was born in Berlin as the daughter of the merchant Theodor Morgenstern and the feminist and writer Lina Morgenstern. She attended the Bussesche Höhere Mädchenschule until she was 16 years old. Afterwards she trained as a kindergarten teacher. Her plan to become an actress was forbidden by her father. After finishing her training she ran a private kindergarten, which her mother had founded. In addition, she took acting lessons with Minona Frieb-Blumauer and after three years passed an examination of the Berlin court theatre with director Botho von Hülsen, who recommended her to the court theatre in Koburg-Gotha as a young lover.
Olga Arendt | Life
She struggled successfully against all odds, a character trait that Adele owed to her mother. After primary school in Horgen, Adele graduated from the then usual "Welschlandjahr" for young women – a longer stay in western Switzerland to learn the French language, mostly as domestic help. She then worked as an employee of ETH Zürich in the seeds control department.
Adele Duttweiler | Early life
Bildersee was born on September 4, 1883 in New York City, to parents Barnett and Flora Bildersee, the first of three children. In 1903, she graduated from Hunter College, subsequently receiving her M.A. and PhD from Columbia University in 1912 and 1932, respectively. From 1903 to 1911, she taught in the New York Public School System before being appointed an instructor of English at Hunter College. She worked there for twenty years, eventually becoming acting Dean in 1926. Five years following, she became Dean of Women at Brooklyn College (of which she was one of the founders of), where she would reach head of admissions, and in 1938, Dean of students.
Adele Bildersee | Biography
Exarchopoulos grew up in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, near the Place des Fêtes. Her father, Didier Exarchopoulos, is a guitar teacher, and her mother, Marina Niquet, a nurse. Her paternal grandfather was Greek.
Adèle Exarchopoulos | Early life
Ihlen was born on 18 May 1935 in Larkollen, Norway, and was raised in Oslo. She was the creative one of her family and wanted to become an actress. Her parents were opposed to that career choice; she lost courage and did not pursue that path but ran away.
Marianne Ihlen | Early life
After engagements in both Vienna and Budapest, using the name of Almati, she made her operatic début as Azucena in "Il trovatore", performing the role in Berlin, Copenhagen and Hamburg. Thereafter she returned to Stockholm in 1886, where she played "Carmen" at the Royal Theatre. Apart from a study trip to Italy in 1889, she continued to perform there until her retirement in 1897. She then moved abroad. In 1895, she married the Swedish opera director, Ernst Axel Rundberg who died in 1901. In 1910, she married the German concert singer Gustav Adolf Henkels.
Adèle Almati | Biography
Born in Braunschweig, Passy-Cornet was a daughter of the opera singer couple Julius and . After she received her first artistic lessons by her mother, Passy-Cornet went to Hamburg and took singing lessons there. Afterwards she sang in Austria and appeared among other things at concerts at the Viennese court. She later performed as a "coloratura" also in her homeland; among other places in Braunschweig, Hamburg and Hannover. At the age of 27 Passy-Cornet got an engagement at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna in 1865 and made her debut there with outstanding success as the "Queen of the Night".
Adele Passy-Cornet | Life
Sandrock was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the daughter of the German merchant Eduard Sandrock (1834–1897) and his Dutch wife Johanna Simonetta ten Hagen (1833–1917). With sister Wilhelmine (1861-1948) and brother Christian (1862–1924) she grew up in Rotterdam and, after her parents divorced on 15 November 1869, in Berlin. There in 1878 at the age of fifteen she made her debut as Selma in "Mutter und Sohn" by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer. In Berlin she met the famous Meiningen Ensemble and achieved success at the theatre of Meiningen, where her first role was Luise in Friedrich Schiller's "Intrigue and Love", followed by further engagements in Moscow, Wiener Neustadt, and Budapest.
Adele Sandrock | Life
Diržiūtė was born in Vilkaviškis. From 1998 to 2005, Diržiūtė studied piano at a Vilkaviškis music school. In 2010 she moved to Vilnius where she studied music at the "Vilnius college of higher education" for a year and then entered the "Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre". During her studies, Diržiūtė appeared in several commercials and got small roles in TV series.
Aistė Diržiūtė | Early life and career beginnings
Because Ponzi schemes were not yet illegal, she was convicted instead of bad accounting and mishandling customers' money and sentenced to three years in prison. Her bank was closed and 32,000 people lost 38 million gulden, the equivalent of almost 400 million euros in 2017 money, causing a wave of suicides. Her personal fortune in art and cash was stripped from her. After her release from prison in 1876, Spitzeder lived off benefactors and unsuccessfully tried to act again in Altona and Berlin. She left Germany for Vienna but police there prevented her engagement, so she returned to Munich in 1878 to publish her memoir.
Adele Spitzeder | Introduction
Born Lillian Ann Herdan in 1912 in Albany, New York, she adopted her stage name by combining her mother's first name (Sarah) and her maiden name of Berner. She was the oldest of four children, and her family relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma when she was a teenager. She became interested in performing after watching silent movies and vaudeville shows at a theater and then imitating scenes in front of the women's restroom attendant. Berner performed in an adaptation of "Abie's Irish Rose" after graduation, and she studied drama for two years at the University of Tulsa. She and her family then moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she worked in a Wanamaker's department store until she was fired for mimicking a customer.
Sara Berner | Early life and career
Gül grew up as a daughter of Turkish immigrants in Stuttgart. She completed her theatre study at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich and worked on several productions of the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding and the Bavarian State Opera as an actress. She played one of the main roles in the feature film (2011).
Demet Gül | Life and career
Isabelle Yasmina Adjani (born 27 June 1955) is a French film actress and singer. She is the only actress or actor in history to win five César Awards; she won Best Actress for "Possession" (1981), "One Deadly Summer" (1983), "Camille Claudel" (1988), "La Reine Margot" (1994), and "Skirt Day" (2009). She was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 2010, and a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2014. Adjani's performance as Adèle Hugo in the 1975 film "The Story of Adele H." earned her the first of two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Isabelle Adjani | Introduction
Odette Myrtil was born Odette Laure Clotilde Quignarde, although some sources cite Belza as her surname at birth, in Paris, the daughter of two stage actors. She studied the violin at a boarding school in Brussels and began performing the violin professionally at the age of 13. In 1915, aged 16, she came to the United States to join the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway as one of the Ziegfeld Girls. The following year she came to London where she was a major success in the West End show "The Bing Boys Are Here". She spent the next several years appearing successfully on the London stage and in vaudeville productions in major European cities.
Odette Myrtil | Life and career
Adele DeGarde (May 3, 1899 – November 1972), a.k.a. Adele De Garde, was an American silent film actress, who appeared in 114 films between 1908 and 1918. Born Adelaide De Gard in Brooklyn, New York, DeGarde was a Biograph Studios child star in the early part of the 20th century. Later she became a Vitagraph Studios leading lady. In 1939, she attended an Old Home Week at Ohrbach's in New York with other movie actors such as Mae Murray and June Elvidge.
Adele DeGarde | Introduction
Jobert was born in Algiers, Algeria, to a Sephardic Jewish Pied-Noir family, the daughter of Eliane Azulay and Charles Jobert, who served in the French Air Force. She came to Metropolitan France when aged eight. Jobert debuted as an actress on stage and television. In 1968, she achieved stardom by playing starring roles in the successful comedies "Faut pas prendre les enfants du bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages" and "L'Astragale". She co-starred with Charles Bronson in "Rider on the Rain" and with Jean-Paul Belmondo in "The Married Couple of the Year Two". During the 1970s, Jobert was one of France's popular movie actresses.
Marlène Jobert | Life and career
Dayne was born as Isabelle Knispel in Berlin, where she was raised as well. In 2006 while still being in school she won the Miss Germany competition. After that she moved to New York City, attending the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Dayne has also lived in Los Angeles, where she worked three jobs. For her acting career she chose Bella Dayne as a stage name.
Bella Dayne | Early life and career
Her first role was in the 2011 television film "Adèle's Choice" by Olivier Guignard, where she played an 8-year-old Albanian student whose family was threatened with expulsion. This student finds support from her teacher, played by Miou-Miou. Bajrami had a small role in the 2014 short film "14 Million Screams" by Lisa Azuelos. She played the title role in the TV film "Marion" by Bourlem Guerdjou. "Marion" was adapted from the eponymous book by Nora Fraisse retracing the Marion Fraisse affair in which a schoolgirl committed suicide following harassment by her fellow students, and first aired France 3 on September 27, 2016.
Luàna Bajrami | Acting career
She performed the role of Adele in the operetta "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss at the Opéra national de Lorraine. In Offenbach's "Hoffmanns Erzählungen", she has performed all beloved women of Hoffmann (Olympia, Antonia, Giulietta, Stella) at the Opernhaus Wuppertal. In contemporary opera, she appeared as the Governess in Britten's "The Turn of the Screw" in Bremen. She performed Ligeti's "Le Grand Macabre" again for her debut at the Israeli Opera. She performed Ligeti's excerpts from the work, "Mysteries of the Macabre", with the Noord Nederlands Orkest at the Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands for a crowd of 15,000. Requested to make it provocative, she parodied Donald Trump in three costumes – as a clown, in a baby outfit with a bottle, and in a Miss America swimsuit.
Sara Hershkowitz | Career
May was born in Wetzlar, Germany. Both her mother, Kate May, and her father, Ferdinand May, were writers. She studied at the drama school in Leipzig from 1942 to 1944. She was employed for nine years at various theatres, including the State Theatre of Schwerin and the State Theatre in Halle. Starting in 1951, she performed at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where she played a variety of roles.
Gisela May | Early life
Leroux was born in Hazebrouck, in northern France, in 1982. Her father was a laborer, and her mother was a waitress. Having developed a fascination with cinema while young, she began attending lectures at Marguerite Yourcenar park near her hometown at age 13, and began taking classes at the Espace Culturel Robert Hossain in Merville. After graduating from Louis Blaringhem High School in Béthune, she enrolled in Université Lille III in Lille, from which she would obtain a performing arts degree. While in college, she played lead roles in plays such as Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" and Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull".
Adélaïde Leroux | Early life and career