Lore Krainer (4 November 1930 – 3 July 2020) was an Austrian actress, restaurateur, and cabaret singer-songwriter.

Personal life

Krainer was born at

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, and ran a restaurant, known as '' Girardi-Keller'' in

, where she performed with her own lyrics and songs. In 1972, she was engaged by

Gerhard Bronner Gerhard Bronner (23 October 1922 in Favoriten, Vienna – 19 January 2007 in Vienna) was an Austrian composer, writer, musician and a cabaret artist, known for his contribution to Austrian culture in the post-World War II period. Life Born t ...

in his Cabaret Fledermaus. From 30 October 1978 to 28 June 2009, Krainer could be heard every Sunday morning in the radio cabaret '' Der Guglhupf'' founded by Bronner and Peter Wehle on

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Listen. It was last broadcast on 28 June 2009. For several years, she appeared on the ORF television program '' Seniorenclub''. In 1984, as the first non-Viennese, she was awarded the Nestroy-Ring. In her free time she liked to play

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, namely the variant

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, and was known as "the

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ne of the Austrian tarot". She scored some tournament victories in this game. She died at

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, aged 89.

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