Topsy Küppers

Topsy Küppers
Topsy Küppers (2020)
Born(1931-08-17)17 August 1931
Aachen, Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany
DiedJune 2025(2025-06-00) (aged 93)
Occupations
  • Actress
  • writer
  • singer
  • director

Topsy Küppers (17 August 1931 – 14 June 2025) was an Austrian writer, singer, soubrette, actress and theatre director of German origin.

Life

Küppers was born in Born in Aachen, Germany. Ursula Staudte taught her, what is known as the Stanislawski principle. With this, she laid the foundation of Küppers carreer. According to Küppers, the greates influence on her was Trude Hesterberg, who taught her chanson, and its interpretation.

Küppers then took her exams at the Bühnengenossenschaft, which had Gustaf Gründgens on its board of examiners.

She worked on German stages and for German and Austrian television . Starting in 1958, she performed with her husband Georg Kreisler in Munich,and other places.

On 17 December 1976 she opened the Freie Bühne Wieden in Vienna with four cabaret programmes, which was "dedicated to the preservation of Jewish literature and Jewish authors - both deceased and contemporary".[1] In the 25 years that she voluntarily directed the theatre until January 2001, the "headmaster [...] Urwienerin".[2] During this time, she fought against misogyny, antisemitism and fascism with musical-literary programmes such as Gehackte Zores, Weit von wo and Amoureuses, Scandaleuses, Heiteres und so Weiteres.

Private life

In 1965, Küppers became an Austrian citizen.[1]

From her marriage to Georg Kreisler came her daughter Sandra Kreisler. Sandra also works as a singer, speaker and actress.[3] She also had a son with Georg.[4] Kreisler and Topsy Küppers separated in the mid-1970s.

Küppers was married in second marriage to Karlheinz (called Carlos) Springer († 2013).[2][5] In early August 2013, Küppers was diagnosed with colon cancer, which she described as "My Yucky-one" ( "Mein Ungustl" =Translation of an untranslatable word, which stems from the Austrian dialect expression for "gross", repulsive or "yucky") and which she dealt with in the identically titled 2014 book.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Topsy Küppers, actress and author, in conversation with Christoph Lindenmeyer". Bayerischer Rundfunk: alpha-Forum. 2003. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Topsy Küppers: Ihr Leben mit dem Ungustl". kurier.at. December 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ Sandra Kreisler. In Andrea von Treuenfeld: Heirs of the Holocaust. Life between silence and memory. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2017, ISBN 978-3-579-08670-5, pp. 134ff.
  4. ↑ Georg Kreisler: Doch gefunden hat man mich nicht. Posthumous edition of previously unpublished texts and photographs. Atrium-Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-85535-367-5.
  5. ↑ Ziegler, Mathias. "Sachbuch - Den Krebs überstehen". Literatur.

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