Thea Rosenquist

Thea Rosenquist
Rosenquist in 1919
Born
Theodora Anna Mathilde Julie Rosenquist

(1896-05-08)8 May 1896
Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein
German Empire
Died26 July 1959(1959-07-26) (aged 63)
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
Other namesThea Körner
Thea Koerner
OccupationActress
Years active1913-1922

Theodora Anna Mathilde Julie Rosenquist (8 May 1896 – 26 July 1959), known as Thea Rosenquist, was a German stage and film actress. She acted in several Austrian silent films, and was considered a replacement for Liane Haid.[1] She married industrialist Leon Joseph Koerner (or Körner) in 1923, and settled down in Vienna and Prague.

Rosenquist was of Jewish origin and had to escape following the Nazi takeovers of Austria and Czechoslovakia. She went to the Netherlands, on to Britain before finally settling down in Canada.[2] Several of her family members were killed in the Holocaust.[citation needed]

Rosenquist and her husband established a charitable foundation, the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation, in 1955. The Thea Koerner House Graduate Student Centre of the University of British Columbia was named in her honour.[3]

The Koerner House, Leon and Thea Koerner's residence in Palm Springs, California, was designed by master architect E. Stewart Williams in 1955.[citation needed]

Notable films

Rosenquist played Rahel in 1919's The Jewess of Toledo and starred as Baronesse Tirnau in the 1922 biopic, Ludwig II.

References

  1. ^ Dassanowsky, p. 25
  2. ^ "Leon Joseph Koerner (1892-1972)". Parks Canada. July 21, 2009.
  3. ^ "Founders (information)". The Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation. Retrieved November 22, 2022.

Bibliography

  • Dassanowsky, Robert. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub, 2005.


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