1. Tilla Durieux was baptized in the evangelical parish Augsburg Confession in Vienna.
16 Facts About Tilla Durieux
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Tilla Durieux adopted "Durieux" as a stage name because her mother disapproved of her acting career.
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Tilla Durieux trained as an actress in Vienna and made her debut at the Moravian Theatre in Olmutz in 1902.
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Tilla Durieux then moved to Berlin where she worked with Max Reinhardt and with a group of expressionist artists around Kurt Hiller and Jakob van Hoddis.
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In 1911 Tilla Durieux entered the stage of the Lessing Theater where, on 1 November 1913, she became the second actress to perform the role Eliza Doolittle in a German language production of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, half a year before its English premiere on 11 April 1914.
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In 1923, Tilla Durieux appeared on Broadway in Dario Niccodemi's play The Shadow at the 39th Street Theatre.
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In 1904, Tilla Durieux married the Berlin Secession painter Eugen Spiro, whose younger sister was Baladine Klossowska.
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Tilla Durieux started dating the successful art dealer and editor and they got married in 1910.
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The marriage lasted 16 years, however Cassirer was very affected when Tilla Durieux wanted to divorce him.
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Tilla Durieux was a public character of 1920s Berlin and associated with numerous celebrities like the photographer Frieda Riess.
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Tilla Durieux continued to perform at the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt and in Prague.
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Tilla Durieux unsuccessfully tried to obtain visa for the United States.
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Tilla Durieux managed to return to West Germany in 1952, appearing on stages in Berlin, Hamburg, and Munster.
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In 1971 Tilla Durieux underwent surgery for a hip fracture and died of post-operative sepsis.
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Tilla Durieux's collection was integrated into the Zlata Lubienski Art Collection.
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The Tilla Durieux Collection was divided, leaving nineteen art works in Zagreb as a part of a new Tilla Durieux Collection at the City Museum in Zagreb while 58 items were exported to Germany, where many were sold.