Lída Baarová
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Lída Baarová | |
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Born | Ludmila Babková 7 September 1914 |
Died | 27 October 2000 | (aged 86)
Nationality | Czech |
Years active | 1931–1970 |
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Lída Baarová (born Ludmila Babková; 7 September 1914 – 27 October 2000) was a Czech actress who for two years was the mistress of the Nazi propaganda minister of Germany, Joseph Goebbels.
Biography
Life and career
Born in
In Berlin, she made a successful appearance in the film
After her engagement to Fröhlich, the couple moved to Schwanenwerder island on the outskirts of Berlin, where their house was close to the residence of Joseph Goebbels, a leading member in the Nazi government of Hitler with a decisive voice in German film production and Nazi cinema. Baarová, still working for the UFA studios, met him when Goebbels visited Fröhlich's home in 1936. Gradually, they became closer and, under the urging of Goebbels, started a relationship that lasted over two years.[2] Their love affair caused serious complications between Goebbels and his wife Magda. When the minister began to show up in public with his mistress, Magda Goebbels in turn began an affair with Goebbels' state secretary Karl Hanke and eventually asked Hitler for permission to divorce her husband. According to Baarová's own statements, she herself, fearing Goebbels' wounded pride, approached the dictator for help.
Hitler intervened on 16 August 1938 and rebuked his minister, stating that in view of his "perfect marriage" as well as the coming
After Allied troops occupied Italy, she had to return to Prague. In April 1945, however, Lída Baarová left Prague for Germany again. On the way, she was taken into custody by the American military police, imprisoned in Munich, and later extradited to Czechoslovakia.
Post-war years
In Czechoslovakia in 1945, Baarová and her family were taken into custody on suspicion of collaboration with the Germans during the war. Her mother died under interrogation; her sister Zorka committed suicide in 1946. She herself was released after 18 months of custody due to lack of evidence. She had never been convicted or sentenced. While in custody, she was often visited by the puppeteer Jan Kopecký and they eventually married on 27 July 1947. Kopecký was a close relative of Václav Kopecký, a prominent politician in the post-war government of Czechoslovakia. Kopecký's prominent relative did not approve of the marriage and Kopecký lost his job as a result. Kopecký emigrated to Argentina, leaving Lída behind to recuperate in the sanatorium of Dr. Lundwall.[citation needed]
In Austria in 1949, the actress attempted a comeback, but when the Austrian-British actor Anton Walbrook withdrew from a film where he was cast with her, she left for Argentina to escape the resulting negative media. Living in extreme poverty, she decided to return to Italy. Her husband stayed in Argentina and they were divorced in 1956. Back in Italy, she appeared in several films, including Fellini's I Vitelloni (1953), where she played the wife of a rich merchant. In 1958, she moved to Salzburg, where she again performed on stage. She married Austrian physician Kurt Lundwall in 1969; he died in 1973 and is buried in Salzburg's Aigner Friedhof.[6]
After the fall of Communism in Europe
In the 1990s, Baarová re-appeared on the cultural scene of the Czech Republic. She published her autobiography. A film, Lída Baarová's Bittersweet Memories, was released in 1995[7] and won an award at the 1996 Art Film Festival in Trenčianske Teplice, Slovakia.
Later life and death
Baarová suffered from Parkinson's disease and died in 2000 in Salzburg, while living alone on the estate she inherited after the death of her second husband, Dr. Lundwall. Her ashes were interred in Prague's Strašnice Cemetery, where she rests with her parents and her sister Zorka.[8]
In popular culture
In 2016, a dramatization of Baarová's life was set on film in The Devil's Mistress (Lída Baarová) by Filip Renč, with Tatiana Pauhofová starring as Baarová, Karl Marcovics as Goebbels, and David Novotný as UFA's head of production Ernst Hugo Correll.[9][10]
Filmography
- Obrácení Ferdyše Pištory ("Conversion of Fred Pištora", 1931)
- Kariéra Pavla Čamrdy ("Pavel Čamrda's Career", 1931)
- Zapadlí vlastenci ("Forgotten Patriots", 1932)
- Lelíček ve službách Sherlocka Holmese("Lelíček in Sherlock Holmes' Service", 1932)
- Šenkýřka u divoké krásky ("Waitress at the Wild Beauty's Bar", 1932)
- Růžové kombiné ("The Pink Slip", 1932)
- Malostranští mušketýři ("Prague's Musketeers", 1932)
- Funebrák ("The Undertaker", 1932)
- Jsem děvče s čertem v těle ("Funky Girl", 1933)
- Madla z cihelny ("The Brickmaker's Daughter", 1933)
- Okénko ("The Window", 1933)
- Sedmá velmoc ("The Seventh Superpower", 1933)
- Její lékař ("The Physician", 1933)
- Pokušení paní Antonie ("Antonia's Temptation", 1934)
- Pán na roztrhání ("Man in Demand on All Sides", 1934)
- Na růžích ustláno ("Easy Life", 1934)
- Zlatá Kateřina ("Golden Kate", 1934)
- Dokud máš maminku ("As Long as your Mother is Alive", 1934)
- Grandhotel Nevada("Grand Hotel Nevada", 1934)
- One Too Many on Board (1935)
- Leutnant Bobby, der Teufelskerl ("Lieutenant Bobby, the Daredevil", 1935)
- Barcarole ("Barcarolle", 1935)
- Verräter ("The Traitor", 1936)
- Die Stunde der Versuchung ("The Hour of Temptation", 1936)
- Švadlenka ("The Seamstress", 1936)
- Komediantská princezna ("The Comedian's Princess", 1936)
- Patrioten ("Patriots", 1937)
- Lidé na kře ("People on the Floating Ice", 1937)
- Panenství ("Virginity", 1937)
- Die Fledermaus ("The Bat", 1937)
- Der Spieler ("The Gambler", 1938)
- Preußische Liebesgeschichte ("A Prussian Love Story", 1938, banned; released in 1950 as Liebslegende "Story of Love")
- Maskovaná milenka ("The Masked Lover", 1939)
- Ohnivé léto ("Fiery Summer", 1939)
- Artur a Leontýna ("Arthur and Leontine", 1940)
- Život je krásný ("Life Is Beautiful", 1940)
- Dívka v modrém ("Girl in Blue", 1940)
- Za tichých nocí ("In the Still of the Night", 1941)
- Paličova dcera ("Arsonist's Daughter", 1941)
- Turbina ("Turbine", 1941)
- Grazia ("The Charming Beauty", 1943)
- Ti conosco, mascherina! ("Masked Girl, Recognised!", 1943)
- La Fornarina ("The Baker's Daughter", 1944)
- Il Cappello da prete ("The Priest's Hat", 1944)
- L'Ippocampo ("The Sea-Horse", 1944)
- Vivere ancora ("Still Alive", 1944)
- La sua strada ("Its Way", 1946)
- La bisarca("The Car Transporter", 1950)
- Gli amanti di Ravello("The Lovers of Ravello", 1950)
- Carne inquieta ("Restless", 1952)
- What Price Innocence? (1952)
- La vendetta di una pazza ("Revenge of a Crazy Girl", 1952)
- I Vitelloni ("The Bullocks", 1953)
- Pietà per chi cade ("Compassion", 1954)
- Miedo ("The Fear", 1956)
- La Mestiza ("The Mestiza", 1956)
- Viaje de novios ("Honeymoon", 1956)
- We're All Necessary (1956)
- 1956 Retorno a la verdad("The Truth Will Set You Free")
- Rapsodia de sangre ("Ecstasy", 1957)
- El batallón de las sombras ("The Battalion in the Shadows", 1957)
- Il cielo brucia ("The Sky Burns", 1958)
- Života sladké hořkosti Lídy Baarové ("Lída Baarová's Bittersweet Memories", 1995)
See also
References
Notes
- ^ Baarova, Lida (18 May 2021). "Interview with Lida Baarova". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-15-136076-5.
- ISBN 978-1-85367-715-1.
- ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.
- ^ ""Toužila po slávě za každou cenu," říká o Lídě Baarové Stanislav Motl" (in Czech). Czech Television. 9 September 2009. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
- ^ Profile cineartistes.com; accessed 14 August 2015.
- ^ Stojanova, Christina (2006). "Czech Dream and the Mission of Documentary Cinema: A Conversation with Helena Třeštíkova". Kinokultura.
- ^ "File:Lída Baarová-hrob, Hřbitov Krematoria Strašnice 03.jpg - Wikimedia Commons". commons.wikimedia.org. 29 July 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
- ^ The Devil's Mistress. Netflix. 2016.
- ^ Renc, Filip (Director) (15 April 2016). "Films: The Devil's Mistress". Cineuropa.org.
Sources
- Baarová, Lida. (1992). Života sladké hořkosti. Ostrava, Czech Republic: Sfinga.
- Frais, Josef. (1998). Trojhvězdí nesmrtelných. Prague, Czech Republic: Formát.
- Motl, S. (2002). Prokleti Lidy Baarove. Praha: Rybka Publishers.
- Škvorecký, J. (1983). Útěky: Vlastní životopis Lídy Baarové, jak jej vyprávela Josefu Škvoreckému. Toronto, Canada: Sixty-Eight Publishers.
- Vávra, O. (1996). Podivný život režiséra: Obrazy vzpominek. Praha: Prostor.
External links
- Lída Baarová at IMDb
- Biography and photos of Lída Baarová, virtual-history.com
- Lída Baarová at Find a Grave