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Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband, Kurt Weill .
Lotte Lenya. Actress: From Russia with Love. Lotte Lenya was a Tony Award-winning and Academy award-nominated actress and singer. While best remembered in the U.S. for her supporting role as Rosa Klebb in the classic Bond film From Russia with Love (1963), she is celebrated in Germany for her ground-breaking performances in the plays of Kurt ...
Lotte Lenya was a Tony Award-winning and Academy award-nominated actress and singer. While best remembered in the U.S. for her supporting role as Rosa Klebb in the classic Bond film From Russia with Love (1963), she is celebrated in Germany for her ground-breaking performances in the plays of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht and her recordings of ...
Nov 28, 1981 · Lotte Lenya, a star of the German and American stage and films who championed the music of her husband, Kurt Weill, died in the Manhattan apartment of a friend last evening. She was 83 years...
Lotte Lenya / Saul Bolasni / c. 1954 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Gift of Lee Boltin. As an actress and chanteuse in Weimar-era Berlin, Lotte Lenya immortalized the music of her husband, composer Kurt Weill, with enthralling renditions of songs such as "Mack the Knife."
The Life & Career of Lotte Lenya. Overview and insight relating to Lotte Lenya's life and career, through a media-rich timeline, detailed chronology, and prose biography.
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.
