Lina Loos

{{Short description|Austrian cabaret actress and journalist}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Lina Loos|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = File:Lina_Loos_1904.jpg | alt = | caption = Lina Loos in 1904 | birth_name = Carolina Catharina Obertimpfler | birth_date = {{Birth date|1882|10|09|df=yes}} | birth_place = Vienna, Austria-Hungary | death_date = {{Death date and age|1950|06|06|1882|10|09|df=yes}} | death_place = Vienna, Austria | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}

'''Lina Loos''' (née '''Carolina Catharina Obertimpfler'''; 9 October 1882, in Vienna – 6 June 1950, in Vienna) was an Austrian cabaret actress and feuilleton journalist. She is best remembered for her appearances at the Linden-Cabaret in Berlin, and for her posthumous collection of writings edited by Adolf Opel. She was briefly married to Adolf Loos. Her life was the subject of the German film ''Lina'' (2017).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fischer |first1=Lisa |title=Lina Loos oder Wenn die Muse sich selbst küßt |date=2007 |location=Vienna |isbn=978-3-205-77611-6 |edition=2. Aufl., Jub.-Ausg |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Rüther |editor1-first=Leopoldine |editor2-last=Csokor |editor2-first=Franz Theodor |title=Du silberne Dame Du: Briefe von u. an Lina Loos |date=1966 |publisher=Zsolnay |location=Vienna |url=https://d-nb.info/457456272 |access-date=12 March 2023 |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite report |last1=Fischer |first1=Lisa |author-link=Lisa Fischer (historian) |title=Lina Loos – oder die Rekonstruktion weiblicher Kreativität in einer sozial-historischen Biographie |type=Dissertation |date=1993 |location=Vienna |language=de}}</ref>

== Life == Carolina Obertimpfler was born on 9 October 1882 to Carl Obertimpfler, a coffee house owner.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://dip.mak.at/detail_product.php?object_id=7553 |title=Café Casa Piccola im ''Design Info Pool (dip)'' des Museums für angewandte Kunst Wien |access-date=2023-07-12 |archive-date=2013-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230232119/http://dip.mak.at/detail_product.php?object_id=7553 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Wien">{{cite web|last1=Lindinger|first1=Michaela|title=Los von Loos!|url=https://magazin.wienmuseum.at/zum-70-todestag-von-lina-loos|website=Wien Museum|language=de |date=28 May 2020}}</ref>

In July 1902, she married architect Adolf Loos, who was twelve years her senior in Eisgrub.<ref name="Wien" /> The furniture manufacturer Max Schmidt and his brother Karl Leo Schmidt served as witnesses.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fischer |first1=Lisa |title=Das Buch ohne Titel |date=2013}}</ref> In 1903, Loos began an affair with 18-year-old student Heinz Lang.<ref>Schwartz, Frederic J. “Architecture and Crime: Adolf Loos and the Culture of the ‘Case.’” The Art Bulletin, vol. 94, no. 3, 2012, pp. 437–57. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23268280. Accessed 12 July 2023.</ref> Lang had hoped Loos would break up with her husband and travel to him, but she wrote to him that she had changed her mind and refused to come. Afterwards Lang committed suicide.<ref name="Wien" />

Loos died on 6 June 1950 at Vienna General Hospital aged 67, after suffering from cancer.<ref name="Wien" />

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