1. Claire Waldoff, born Clara Wortmann, was a German singer.
12 Facts About Claire Waldoff
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Claire Waldoff was a famous kabarett singer and entertainer in Berlin during the 1910s to the 1930s, chiefly known for performing ironic songs in the Berlin dialect and with lesbian undertones and themes.
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In 1906, Waldoff went to Berlin, where she performed at the Figaro-Theater on Kurfurstendamm.
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Claire Waldoff made her breakthrough when Rudolf Nelson gave her a job at the Roland von Berlin theatre near Potsdamer Platz.
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Claire Waldoff's success reached its peak in the Weimar Republic era of the 1920s.
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Claire Waldoff was known for singing her songs in distinctive Berliner slang, attired in a shirt with a tie and the fashionable crop hairstyle, cursing and smoking cigarettes on stage.
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Claire Waldoff lived together with her significant other Olga "Olly" von Roeder until her death.
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Claire Waldoff was close friends with Kurt Tucholsky and Heinrich Zille.
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Claire Waldoff had to cope with further stage and publication bans.
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Claire Waldoff died aged 72 after a stroke and was buried in the Pragfriedhof cemetery in Stuttgart.
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Claire Waldoff has a star on the Walk of Fame of Cabaret, Mainz.
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Claire Waldoff Die Konigin der Kleinkunst Folge 1 und 2; Membran Music documents 2005 Folge 1:.