You are bidding on one Hand-signed real photo autograph card of the actor Gustav Waldau (1871-1958).
Signed on the motif side "Waldau June 14, 1942."
On the back with a personal dedication: "Thank you for some friendly waves. Your Waldau."
Photographer: E. Barakovich, Vienna, the Jewish photographer Edith Barakovich (1896-1940), who took her own life while fleeing the Nazis. -- Interesting that Waldau was still using photographs by this Jewish photographer in 1942.
Publisher:Graphic Institute Gebr. Garloff, Magdeburg.
Format: 14.1 x 9.2 cm.
Condition: Motif slightly out of focus, card stained, with pinholes and damage to the corners. Please bAlso check out the pictures!
Internal note: SAM-BER
About Gustav Waldau and Edith Barakovich (source: wikipedia):
Gustav Waldau, also Gustl Waldau, actually Gustav Theodor Clemens Robert Freiherr von Rummel (* 27. February 1871 at Piflas Castle, Ergolding; † 25. May 1958 in Munich) was a German theater and film actor.
Life and work: Born Gustav Freiherr von Rummel, he joined the Bavarian Cadet Corps at the age of 14. He was promoted to officer in the Infantry Body Regiment. Von Rummel quit his job, first became a journalist for the magazine Jugend and then trained as an actor under Wilhelm Schneider. Since acting was not considered appropriate for nobles, he adopted the stage name Waldau, after Waldau Castle in the Upper Palatinate, which once belonged to his family.
He made his debut in 1897 at the Cologne City Theater as Paris in Romeo and Juliet. In April 1898 he joined the ensemble of the Munich Court Theater. In 1910 he made guest appearances at the Burgtheater, in 1913 in Saint Petersburg and in 1914 in New York. After military service, he continued his career in Munich in 1918. He celebrated a great success in 1921 at the premiere of The Difficult as Count Bühl, which became his signature role.
Waldau, who was considered a bon vivant, appeared on various stages for almost 50 years, especially in Munich, but also in Berlin and, since 1924, frequently at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. Together with his wife Hertha von Hagen, he was a member of the Bavarian State Theater ensemble for several decades.
Waldau was particularly used in film in the thirties and forties. He portrayed elegant, reserved older gentlemen in supporting roles. During the Nazi era he received the title of state actor and in 1941 he was awarded the Goethe Medal for art and science. In the final phase of the Second World War, Adolf Hitler included him in the God-Given list of the most important artists in August 1944, which saved him from deployment on the home front. Waldau was later awarded the Max Reinhardt Ring.
Gustav Waldau was buried in the Bogenhausen cemetery in Munich (grave wall on the right no. 11).
Honors
1956: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
In the year of his death, Munich named a Gustav-Waldau-Steig in Herzogpark. Vienna-Döbling followed in 1960 (19. district) with a Waldaugasse. His birthplace, Ergolding, also honored him by naming the street that runs past his birthplace after him.
Monument on the Gustav-Waldau-Steig.
Filmography (selection)
1915: The gentleman without a home
1915: Gustl's affair
1919: Artist expenses
1919: Foxtrot Dad
1931: The Wrong Husband
1932: A great idea
1933: Cairo season
1933: The young Dessauer's great love
1934: You and the Three
1934: Farewell Waltz
1934: Be a great lady for once
1934: Her Excellency's Daughters
1934: This is how a love ended
1934: Dear stupid mom
1934: Little Dorrit
1934: Your greatest success
1935: The Outsider
1935: Winter Night's Dream
1935: You and the three
1935: The Sleeping Car Controller
1935: A night on the Danube
1936: The three around Christine
1936: Girlhood of a Queen
1936: Three girls around Schubert
1936: You are my happiness
1937: The great adventure
1937: The Voice of the Heart
1937: The really big follies
1937: The key witness
1938: Little and Big Love
1938: Guest performance in Paradise
1938: Life can be so beautiful
1938: Mrs. Sixta
1938: Yvette
1939: Carnival
1939: A little night music
1939: Three wonderful days
1939: The Pentecost organ
1939: Gold in New Frisco
1939: A hopeless case
1940: A man gone astray
1940: Falstaff in Vienna
1940: The Geierwally
1940: Herz drops anchor
1940: A lifetime
1940: Operetta
1940: Our Miss Doctor
1940: Miss von Barnhelm
1940: The saving angel
1941: Hallgarten scout troop
1941: The waitress Anna
1941: Jenny and the gentleman in the tailcoat
1941: The Seventh Boy
1942: Between Heaven and Earth
1942: Secret file WB 1
1942: Beloved World
1942: Small residence
1943: Symphony of a Life
1943: Laugh Bajazzo
1943: Munchausen
1943: The second shot
1943: Late Love
1943: I pagliacci
1943: Carnival of Love
1943: The Infinite Path
1944: Little Muck
1944: Happiness on the way
1944: Come back to me
1945: Regimental Music
1947: Winter Melody
1947: Singing Angels
1948: The angel with the trumpet
1948: The Other Life
1948: Fregola
1949: A charming con artist
1949: The strange story of Brandner Kaspar
1949: Who are you that I love?
1949: The Cuckoo's Egg
1949: Don't dream, Annette!
1949: The Gate to Paradise
1949: A great love
1949: Eroica
1949: Dear friend
1950: The double Lottchen
1950: The chaste Adam
1950: King for a night
1950: Four flights of stairs on the right
1951: Five Girls and a Man (A Tale of Five Cities)
1951: Dr. Holl
1951: Everlasting Light
1952: The beautiful Tölzerin
1952: Two people
1952: Monks, Girls and Pandours
1953: The Night Without Morals
1953: Aunt Jutta from Calcutta
1953: Marriage strike
1954: Hubertus Castle
1954: The Silent Angel
1955: 08/15 at home
1955: Lola Montez
Edith Barakovich (also Edith de Barakowitz, born 14. February 1896 in Semlin, Austria-Hungary; died 11. December 1940 in Casablanca) was an Austrian photographer.
Life: Edith Barakovich did an apprenticeship as a photographer in Vienna between 1913 and 1915 in the Atelier d'Ora of the Viennese social and fashion photographer Dora Kallmus and attended the graphic arts training and research institute. After completing her training, she was accepted into the Vienna Photographic Society (PhG) and registered a business as a photographer in Wieden (Vienna) in 1918. She became a social, portrait and fashion photographer and in her studio portrayed composers, musicians and writers such as Adolf Cluss, Egon Friedell, Ludwig Hirschfeld, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Oscar Straus, Richard Strauss and Felix Salten. Her photos appeared in many Viennese newspapers and magazines.
Barakovich married the Viennese screenwriter Paul Frank and stayed with him in Berlin for a while. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, they had to return to Vienna. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, they fled together to France, where Frank could only live on the royalties. They applied for an emigration visa to the USA in Paris, but this took a long time. In June 1940, when the Germans conquered France, they had to flee to Bordeaux, where they were imprisoned in an internment camp as foreigners. Leaving everything behind, they fled from there across the Spanish border near Bayonne. They ended up in Casablanca in French Morocco, which was now part of Vichy France. There they waited for an affidavit and passage to travel to the United States. By the time the entry visas for the USA arrived, the exit visas had expired and had to be reapplied for in Vichy. In this situation, which was perceived as hopeless, Barakovich took his own life with Veronal in December 1940. Three months later, Frank actually managed to continue his journey.