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Stopover in Marzling: Actress Brigitte Horney was a guest at the Marzlingen Café Wagner with a companion at the end of the 1950s.
The FT reported about it at the time.
She was probably on a promotional tour for the film “The Glass Tower.
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None other than the well-known actress Brigitte Horney stopped in Marzling in the 1950s.
The FT reported about it at the time.
Marzling
– In the summer of 1957, the people of Marzling must have been quite surprised who was sitting in Café Wagner and enjoying country life.
One thing is certain: the actress Brigitte Horney did not remain unrecognized in Café Wagner for long, because according to the newspaper report from 1957, the guests soon became aware of her and her companion.
The headline
No wonder: Horney had often been seen on the big screen since the 1930s, as well as on the theater stage - and of course on television a few decades later.
Under the headline “World-Famous Artist Visits” we learn from the two-column in the Freisinger Tagblatt from that time that Horney was probably on a three-month “European tour” at the time – and, curiously enough, ended up in Marzling.
When looking at the works in which she took part, it quickly becomes clear what this “tour” was related to - one can assume that the actress was on a promotional tour for the film “The Glass Tower”.
This film, in turn, clearly stands out from their work and is now considered, according to various film critics, to be the “great forgotten film of German post-war cinema”.
The special thing about the melodrama: The film is based heavily on film noir and has a brilliant cast with Lili Palmer, Peter van Eyck and Horney.
Another special feature: Horney returned to Germany from Boston for this film.
She became an American citizen in 1953 so that she could continue to run her mother's polyclinic there.
The companion
But what brought Horney to Marzling?
This actually remains completely inexplicable, as does the mystery surrounding her ominous companion, whom the Freisinger Tagblatt claims to have identified at the time as “the director PT Pathbone from Boston”.
The only problem: There are no filmmakers with these names.
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But who did exist is a certain Perry T. Rathbone.
However, he was museum director at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Horney's connection to him can be found through her husband at the time, the art historian Hanns Swarzenski.
He was the head of the Boston Museum's painting collection under Perry T. Rathbone.
Horney lived with Swarzenski in Boston at the time and only returned to Germany for film projects.
Rathbone was, it was assumed, a friend of the family.
What was rather difficult to clarify: Was there actually a Café Wagner in Marzling at that time?
Here, however, Hermann Bienen, a former master brewer and local historian, was able to quickly help out.
“That existed until the 1970s, on Kirchstrasse.”
What Bienen also discovered: The café, which was apparently a popular meeting place for Marzlinger residents, later became a disco called “Redlight”.
Stayed until evening
In any case, Brigitte Horney really enjoyed her stay in Marzling, as can be read in the old FT issue.
The article also states that the actress had dinner on the café terrace and later even toasted the Marzlingers at the bar to see them again soon.
Horney, who readers will probably remember for her roles in the Edgar Wallace film adaptations and later in “Jakob and Adele”, died in 1988. It remains unclear whether she ever returned to Marzling.