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Occupation
  
Actress

Children
  
Gabriele Jacoby

Role
  
Singer

Name
  
Marika Rokk

Years active
  
1930–1988


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Full Name
  
Marie Karoline Rokk

Born
  
3 November 1913 (
1913-11-03
)

Died
  
May 16, 2004, Baden bei Wien, Austria

Spouse
  
Fred Raul (m. 1968–1985), Georg Jacoby (m. 1940–1964)

Albums
  
Kreuder, P.: The Best Hits of Peter Kreuder in Original Sound (1932-1940)

Movies
  
The Woman of My Dreams, Women Are Better Diplomats, Kora Terry, Gasparone, The Life and Loves of Tschai

Similar People
  
Georg Jacoby, Marika Kilius, Johannes Heesters, Zarah Leander, Peter Kreuder

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Marika Rökk (3 November 1913 – 16 May 2004) was an Egyptian-born singer, dancer and actress of Hungarian descent, who gained prominence in German films in the Nazi era.

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Life and work

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Marie Karoline Rökk was born in 1913 in Cairo, Egypt, the daughter of Hungarian architect and contractor Eduard Rökk and his wife Maria Karoline Charlotte née Karoly. She spent her childhood in Budapest, but in 1924 her family moved to Paris. Here she learned to dance and starred with the Hoffmann Girls at the Moulin Rouge cabaret. After a tour that led her to Broadway she continued her dance training in the United States, where she worked with Ned Wayburn. In 1929 she returned to Europe and the next year acted in her first film, Why Sailors Leave Home, a British comedy directed by Monty Banks, starring Leslie Fuller.

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She made her real breakthrough when the Universum Film AG (UFA) attempted to create a German film star to rival Hollywood's top musical star actresses Eleanor Powell, Jeanette MacDonald, Ginger Rogers and later, Alice Faye, Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. The Third Reich's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, admired Hollywood movies and examined them carefully in regular private screenings. Technicolor films such as Becky Sharp (1935), The Garden of Allah (1936), Nothing Sacred (1937), and A Star Is Born (1937) made him realize that Hollywood feature films presented a threat to Germany's internal market and that Hollywood's dominance of colour and musical film technology should be matched, at least if Germany was serious about engaging in a cultural war with the U.S. and Britain.

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As an acclaimed revue dancer on numerous European stages, Rökk was selected as the ideal candidate to be groomed and promoted as this new type of star and in 1934 was offered a two-year contract with UFA, where she became one of the most prolific film stars of the time. Rökk's German film debut was Leichte Kavallerie (Light Cavalry) (1935, Werner Hochbaum) with Heinz von Cleve. The film made her a sensation overnight. It was the first of a series of modern escapist, lightweight operettas and glittering revue-style entertainments which quickly made Rökk one of Germany's most popular actresses. These films were clearly modeled on the successful formula of the black-and-white and Technicolor musical films being produced by American film studios RKO, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 20th Century Fox in the 1930s and 1940s. She had the technical skill and glamour to carry off the formulaic plots and dialogue and provide German audiences with a home grown star to rival the popular American actresses. Der Bettelstudent and Gasparone, followed by Hello Janine! in 1939, all starred her together with Johannes Heesters and established them as the "dream couple" of the musical comedy genre. In her appearances she cultivated her magyar accent conveying a notion of "paprika" exoticism. Her films, which were not overtly political, were also popular in wider parts of Europe.

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With a double role in Kora Terry, a 1940 film directed by her future husband Georg Jacoby, she reached new heights. By simultaneously impersonating dutiful and evil twin sisters, Rökk was able to showcase her range of theatrical talent, performing in several dance interludes which were quite risqué for that time. In the same year, she appeared in the propaganda film Wunschkonzert by Eduard von Borsody (as herself), followed by her performance in Georg Jacoby's lavish Women Are Better Diplomats (Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten, UFA's first Agfacolor motion picture) in 1941, together with Willy Fritsch. She reached the peak of her career in 1944, with the star role in The Woman of My Dreams, a lavishly enacted musical colour film again directed by Georg Jacoby. Though few of her movies featured overt Nazi propaganda, she fulfilled her mission to exemplify a leading woman in the Third Reich and to entertain the German people throughout World War II as intended by Joseph Goebbels.

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After the war, she initially received a Berufsverbot (profession ban), but was rehabilitated in 1947 and was able to continue her movie career in West Germany and Austria. In 1948 she was among the first recipients of the German Bambi media award. Rökk became one of Europe's most famous operetta singers, performing onstage until 1986. After her husband Georg Jacoby had died in 1964, she was married to the Hungarian actor Fred Raul from 1968 until his death in 1985. She is the mother of actress Gabriele Jacoby.

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Rökk died of a heart attack in Baden bei Wien, Austria, in 2004.

Awards

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  • 1948, 1968, 1987, 1990, 1998 Bambi
  • 1981 Deutscher Filmpreis, Special Award for Outstanding Contributions to German Cinema
  • 1987 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress

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    Filmography

    Actress
    1988
    Schloß Königswald as
    Freifrau von Boehme
    1980
    Die Gräfin vom Naschmarkt (TV Movie) as
    Rózsi Sándor, Horoskopverkäuferin
    1973
    Der letzte Walzer (TV Movie)
    1972
    Die Schöngrubers (TV Series) as
    Therese Schöngruber
    - Die Reise nach Wien (1972) - Therese Schöngruber
    - Das Dienstmädchen (1972) - Therese Schöngruber
    - Die Einbrecher (1972) - Therese Schöngruber
    - Die Prüfung (1972) - Therese Schöngruber
    - Der Geburtstag (1972) - Therese Schöngruber
    - Das Telefon (1972) - Therese Schöngruber
    - Die Demonstration (1972) - Therese Schöngruber
    - Die Landpartie (1972) - Therese Schöngruber
    - Die Verehrer (1972) - Therese Schöngruber
    - Der Hoflieferant (1972) - Therese Schöngruber
    - Der Nebenberuf (1972) - Therese Schöngruber
    - Aller Anfang ist schwer (1972) - Therese Schöngruber
    - Ankunft in Berlin (1972) - Therese Schöngruber
    1967
    Schlager International (TV Movie)
    1965
    Adieu 65: Hello 66 (TV Movie)
    1962
    Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies as
    Ilonka Davarosch
    1962
    Die Fledermaus as
    Adele, the Maid
    1961
    Heute gehn wir bummeln as
    Marika Sabo
    1961
    Mein Mann, das Wirtschaftswunder as
    Ilona Farkas
    1959
    Die Nacht vor der Premiere as
    Carola Lorm
    1958
    Bühne frei für Marika as
    Marion Müller / Marika Karoly
    1957
    Nachts im grünen Kakadu as
    Irene Wagner
    1953
    The Divorcée as
    Gonda van der Loo
    1953
    Mask in Blue as
    Juliska Varady
    1951
    Die Csardasfürstin as
    Sylva Varescu
    1951
    Sensation in San Remo as
    Cornelia
    1950
    Marika as
    Marika
    1948
    Fregola as
    Fregola
    1944
    Die Frau meiner Träume as
    Julia Koestner
    1942
    Hab mich lieb as
    Monika Koch
    1941
    Tanz mit dem Kaiser as
    Christine von Alvin
    1941
    Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten as
    Marie-Luise Pally
    1940
    Zirkusblut (unfinished)
    1940
    Request Concert as
    Singer
    1940
    Kora Terry as
    Kora Terry / Mara Terry
    1939
    Tanzendes Herz (unfinished)
    1939
    It Was a Gay Ballnight as
    Nastassja Petrowna Jarowa, Dancer
    1939
    Hallo Janine as
    Janine
    1939
    Vadrózsa
    1938
    A Night in May as
    Inge Fleming
    1937
    Gasparone as
    Ita, seine Nichte
    1937
    Karussell as
    Erika Hübner
    1937
    Und du mein Schatz fährst mit as
    Maria Seydlitz
    1936
    Der Bettelstudent as
    Ihre Töchter: Bronislawa
    1936
    Hot Blood as
    Marika von Körössy
    1935
    Light Cavalry as
    Rosika
    1933
    Kísértetek vonata as
    Mary
    1932
    Csókolj meg, édes! as
    Terike
    1930
    Why Sailors Leave Home
    1930
    Kiss Me Sergeant as
    Dancer
    Soundtrack
    2019
    The Good Liar (performer: "In der Nacht, Ist Der Mensch Nicht Gern Alleine")
    1984
    Das zerbrochene Haus (TV Movie) (performer: "'Mach dir nichts daraus")
    1976
    Epävalta (TV Movie) (performer: "Musik, Musik, Musik" - uncredited)
    1972
    Die Schöngrubers (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
    - Die Verehrer (1972) - (performer: "Einmal möcht' ich so verliebt sein" - uncredited)
    - Der Hoflieferant (1972) - (performer: "Zoo-Lied" - uncredited)
    1962
    Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies (performer: "Dodo", "Stundenplan-Twist", "Es kommt auf die Sekunde an" (reprise))
    1959
    Die Nacht vor der Premiere (performer: "Küsse in der Nacht", "Eine Party mit Dir", "Ein anständ'ges Mädchen", "Charleston-Boy")
    1958
    Bühne frei für Marika (performer: "Der schönste Tag im ganzen Jahr", "Mir ist so langweilig", "Das ist der Swing", "Echo-Blues", "Wenn du willst, wenn du kannst, wenn du möchtest", "Opernparodie")
    1957
    Nachts im grünen Kakadu (performer: "Nachts im grünen Kakadu", "Ich hab so ein Gefühl", "Eine schwache Stunde", "Es träumen zwei Herzen von Liebe")
    1951
    Sensation in San Remo (performer: "Signor ich bin eine Signora", "Ich träme von der grossen Liebe" - uncredited)
    1942
    Hab mich lieb (performer: "Ich möchte so gerne...")
    1941
    Tanz mit dem Kaiser (performer: "So Schön wie Heut' so müsst' es bleiben")
    1941
    Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten (performer: "Wenn ein junger Mann kommt", "Einen Walzer für dich und für mich", "Ach, ich liebe alle Männer", "Warum, weshalb, wieso?", "Ach ich liebe alle Frauen", "Musik, die nie verklingt")
    1940
    Kora Terry (performer: "Wenn es Frühling wird...")
    1939
    Hallo Janine (performer: "Ich brauche keine Millionen")
    1937
    Und du mein Schatz fährst mit (performer: "Früruchte die verboten sind")
    Self
    1996
    Feste der Volksmusik (TV Series) as
    Self - Musician
    - Frühlingsfest der Volksmusik (1996) - Self - Musician
    1986
    NDR Talk Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 19 September 1986 (1986) - Self
    1984
    Heut' abend (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Marika Rökk (1984) - Self
    1982
    Österreich II (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    1981
    Frauengeschichten (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.1 (1981) - Self
    1966
    Stars in der Manege (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - 1980 (1980) - Self
    - 1966 (I) (1966) - Self
    1978
    Guten Tag, liebes Glück (TV Special) as
    Self
    1975
    Treffpunkt Herz (TV Special) as
    Self - Guest
    1975
    Herz mit Schnauze - Erinnerungen an Grethe Weiser (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1975
    Musik ist Trumpf (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.3 (1975) - Self
    1974
    V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode #4.3 (1974) - Self
    1973
    Acht nach 8 (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Die 40er Jahre (1973) - Self
    1972
    Marika Rökk - Ja das Temperament (TV Movie) as
    Self - Host
    1971
    TV Intim (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 1 August 1971 (1971) - Self
    1970
    So schön wie heut' (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1970
    Eine Frau aus unseren Träumen - Die Marika-Rökk-Story (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self - Narrator
    1969
    Der goldene Schuß (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 4 December 1969 (1969) - Self
    1969
    Seniorenclub (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.10 (1969) - Self
    1969
    Eine Starparade mit Marianne Koch (TV Special) as
    Self
    1969
    Treffpunkt Airport (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.4 (1969) - Self
    1968
    Vergißmeinnicht (TV Series documentary) as
    Self - Dancer - Singer / Self - Singer - Dancer
    - Episode #1.41 (1969) - Self - Dancer - Singer
    - Episode #1.30 (1968) - Self - Singer - Dancer
    1969
    Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten (TV Series) as
    Self - Musician
    - Episode #1.1 (1969) - Self - Musician
    1968
    Der keusche Lebemann (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1968
    Uit met... Bob Benny (TV Special) as
    Performer
    1966
    Es funkeln die Sterne - Eine musikalische Silvesterreise um die Welt (TV Special) as
    Self - Dancer - Singer
    1966
    Blick zurück im Film (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 21 November 1966 (1966) - Self
    1966
    Zwischenstation (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Marika Rökk (1966) - Self
    1965
    Hotel Victoria (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.7 (1965) - Self
    1965
    So schön wie heut.... (TV Movie) as
    Self - Singer
    1964
    Silvester Show (TV Special) as
    Singer
    1963
    Jolanthe lässt bitten.... (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1962
    So schön wie heut' ... (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1958
    Ein Walzer für Dich und für mich (TV Movie) as
    Self - Host - Musician
    1957
    Vorhang auf! (TV Movie) as
    Self - Musician - Dancer
    Archive Footage
    2015
    Francofonia as
    Self (uncredited)
    2010
    Der zweite Weltkrieg (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Marika Rökk - Ein Star für alle Jahreszeiten (2010) - Self
    2006
    Die Traumschiff-Gala zum 80. Geburtstag von Peter Alexander (TV Special) as
    Self
    2005
    Münchhausen - Ein Mythos in Agfacolor (Video documentary) as
    Self / Julia Koestner
    2005
    Filmlegenden. Deutsch (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2002
    Bellaria - So lange wir leben! (Documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2001
    Das Jahrhundert des Kabaretts (TV Mini Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Vielleicht gehen wir alle mal drauf (2001) - Self
    1992
    Seniorenclub (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.1000 (1992) - Self
    1985
    Seinerzeit (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Zu Gast: Harald Juhnke (1985) - Self
    1978
    Musik ist Trumpf (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Das Schönste aus 'Musik ist Trumpf' (1978) - Self
    1974
    Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.9 (1974) - Self
    1963
    Wie gewünscht... (TV Mini Series) as
    Kora Terry / Mara Terry
    - Episode #1.13 (1963) - Kora Terry / Mara Terry
    1958
    It Only Happened Once as
    Self - Marika Rökk

    References

    Marika Rökk Wikipedia