(Who's Who in the Theater gives her birthdate as October 18, 1900)
Occupation: actress
Also Known as: Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer (birth name)
About Lotte Lenya:
Lotte Lenya, trained in drama and ballet, was an actress in Berlin already well-known for her unique musical style when she met and married Kurt Weill in 1926.
Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill collaborated on Mahagonny, Die Dreigroshenoper (Threepenny Opera or The Beggar's Opera), and, after leaving Germany and moving to New York, on Eternal Road and The Firebrand of Florence. After Weill's death in 1950, Lotte Lenya continued acting, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.
Print Bibliography:
Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. Lys Symonette, editor; Kim H. Kowalkee, editor and translator. 1997.
More About Lotte Lenya:
Lotte Lenya Biography
A biography and discography for Lotte Lenya, from Sony.
Lotte Lenya and Turk Murphy
A 1950s photograph.
Speak Low (When You Speak Love)
Reviews of a collection of letters between Weill and Lenya, exchanged when work separated them.
The Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
Yale University's Irving S. Gilmore Music Library is the source for correspondence, photographs, papers, music and other documents, for the serious researcher.
Academy Awards® Winners (1960 - 1969)
1961: Lenya was nominated as best supporting actress.
1956 Tony Awards
Mention of Lenya's 1956 Tony as supporting actress in a musical, The Threepenny Opera.
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