The Early Years
Lenya was born as Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer to working class parents in Vienna. She moved to study in Zurich in 1914, taking up her first job at the Schauspielhaus using the stage name Lotte Lenja. She moved to Berlin to seek work in 1921.
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