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Surabaya Suroboyo
—  City  —
Seal
Nickname(s): Suroboyo, The City of Heroes
Motto: Sparkling Surabaya
Surabaya Location of Surabaya in Indonesia
Coordinates: 7°15′55″S 112°44′33″E / 7.26528°S 112.7425°E / -7.26528; 112.7425Coordinates: 7°15′55″S 112°44′33″E / 7.26528°S 112.7425°E / -7.26528; 112.7425
Country	Indonesia
Province	East Java
Settled	May 31, 1293
Government
• Mayor	Tri Rismaharini
• Vice Mayor	Bambang Dwi Hartono
Area
• City	374.78 km2 (144.70 sq mi)
• Metro	1,805.08 km2 (696.95 sq mi)
Elevation	5 m (16 ft)
Population (2010 Indonesia Census)
• City	2,765,908
• Density	7,400/km2 (19,000/sq mi)
• Metro	5,622,259
• Metro density	3,100/km2 (8,100/sq mi)
Time zone	WIB (UTC+7)
Website	www.surabaya.go.id

Surabaya (pronounced [surəˈbaja]) (formerly Soerabaja, Soerabaia or Surabaja) is Indonesia's second-largest city with a population of over 2.7 million (5.6 million in the metropolitan area), and the capital of the province of East Java. It is located on the northern shore of eastern Java at the mouth of the Mas River and along the edge of the Madura Strait.

To Indonesians, it is known as "the city of heroes" due to the importance of the Battle of Surabaya in galvanizing Indonesian and international support for Indonesian independence during the Indonesian National Revolution.

Etymology[link]

Surabaya is locally believed to derive its name from the words sura or suro (shark) and baya or boyo (crocodile), two creatures which, in a local myth, fought each other in order to gain the title of "the strongest and most powerful animal" in the area according to a Jayabaya prophecy. This prophecy tells of a fight between a giant white shark and a giant white crocodile, which sometimes interpreted as a conflict between Mongol forces and Raden Wijaya's Majapahit forces. Now the two animals are used as the city's logo, the two facing each other while circling, as depicted in a statue appropriately located near the entrance to the city zoo. This folk etymology, though embraced enthusiastically by city leaders, is unverifiable.

Alternate derivations proliferate: from the Javanese sura ing baya, meaning "bravely facing danger"; or from the use of surya to refer to the sun. Some people consider this Jayabaya prophecy as a great war between Surabaya native people and invaders in 1945, while another story is about two heroes that fought each other in order to be the king of the city. The two heroes were Sura and Baya.

History[link]

Map of Surabaya from an 1897 English travel guide

The earliest record of Surabaya was in a 1225 book written by Chau Ju-Kua, in which it was called Jung-ya-lu,^[1] the ancient name of Surabaya. Ma Huan documented the early fifteen-century visit of Zheng He's Treasure ship in his 1433 book Ying-yai Sheng-lan: "after traveling south for more than twenty li, the ship reached Sulumayi, whose foreign name is Surabaya. At the estuary, the outflowing water is fresh".^[2]

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Surabaya was a sultanate and a major political and military power in eastern Java. It entered a conflict with, and was later captured by, the more powerful Sultanate of Mataram in 1625 under Sultan Agung. It was one of Mataram's fiercest campaigns, in which they had to conquer Surabaya's allies, Sukadana and Madura and to lay siege to the city before capturing it. With this conquest, Mataram then controlled almost the whole of Java, with the exception of the Sultanate of Banten and the Dutch settlement of Batavia.

The expanding East Indies Companies took the city over from a weakened Mataram in November 1743. Surabaya became a major trading center under the Dutch colonial government, and hosted the largest naval base in the colony. In 1917, a revolt occurred among the soldiers and sailors of Surabaya, led by the Indies Social Democratic Association. The revolt was firmly crushed and the insurgents given harsh sentences.

Japan occupied the city in 1942 as part of the occupation of Indonesia, and it was bombed by the Allies in 1944. After that it was seized by Indonesian nationalists. However, the young nation was soon put into conflict with the British, who were caretakers of the Dutch colony after the surrender of the Japanese.

The Battle of Surabaya was one of the most important battles of the Indonesian revolution. It was started after British Brigadier Mallaby was killed on October 30, 1945 near Jembatan Merah (the "Red Bridge"), allegedly by a stray bullet. The Allies gave an ultimatum to the Indonesian freedom fighters inside the city to surrender, but this was refused. The ensuing battle, which took thousands of lives, took place on November 10, and is nowadays celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan). The incident of the red-white flag (the Dutch national red-white-and-blue flag at the top of Yamato Hotel's tower that was torn into the Indonesian red-white flag) by Bung Tomo is also recorded as a heroic feat during the struggle of this city.

The City[link]

As the main seaport and commercial center in the eastern region of Indonesia, Surabaya has become one of the largest cities in Southeast Asia. Today, Surabaya's population is around three million, and the surrounding rural area houses at least 7 million. The areas surrounding Surabaya include Lamongan to the northwest, Gresik to the west, Bangkalan to the northeast, Sidoarjo to the south, and Mojokerto and Jombang to the southwest. Gresik, Bangkalan, Mojokerto, Surabaya, Sidoarjo and Lamongan as an area is called as Gerbang Kertosusila.

On Wednesday, 10 June 2009 the Suramadu Bridge between Surabaya and the island of Madura; was completed and it is currently the longest bridge in the country. Madura can also be accessed by a ferry service that operates regularly from Surabaya's port, Tanjung Perak (which literally means: "Silver Cape" in Indonesian).

The Adhiwangsa, Taman Beverly, and Water Place Residences are three of the tallest skyscrapers in Surabaya.

Plaza Tunjungan, Ciputra World Surabaya, Grand City, Galaxy Mall, City Of Tomorrow, Supermal Pakuwon Indah, Surabaya Town Square, Lenmarc, Royal Plaza Surabaya, East Coast, Surabaya Plaza, Kapas Krampung Plaza, and Jembatan Merah Plaza are the famous shopping center while Hi-Tech Mall, WTC, and Plasa Marina are the computers and mobile-phones shops center in Surabaya. Surabaya is home to the Eastern Armada, one of two in the Indonesian Navy. Its strong maritime heritage is also reflected with the Submarine Monument, a real retired Russian submarine, called Pasopati, that was converted into a museum ship in the city center. Flooding is common in many areas of the city during the rainy season, mostly caused by clogged sewers and inept bureaucracy. The fact that Surabaya is located in a river delta and has a flat and relatively low elevation doesn't help the matter either.

Surabaya is the location of the only synagogue in Indonesia, but it rarely obtains a minyan. There is also a Jewish cemetery in the city.^[3][4]

Surabaya's zoo, opened in 1916, was the first in the world to have successfully bred orangutans in captivity. Other points of interest include:

• Grand Mosque of Surabaya, the largest mosque in East Java.
• Cheng Ho Mosque, the first mosque in Indonesia built with Chinese-style architecture
• Jales Veva Jaya Mahe Monument, a large, admiral-like statue which commemorates the Indonesian Navy.
• Mpu Tantular Museum, has a large collection of ancient Javanese artifacts.
• Monkasel, abbreviated from Monumen Kapal Selam (English: Submarine Monument)^[5]
• A Soviet-built submarine display (named KRI Pasopati (410)), which proudly served in Indonesian Navy since 1962. Launched in 1952 and since her decommissioning in 1990, now preserved as a monument. It is open as tourism attraction. The body/hull was slightly cut for stairs & door for easier public entrance & viewing. Right beside the monument there is a building where a short movie about the history of the submarine itself can be watched.
• Bonbin Surabaya is one of the famous zoos in Southeast Asia, though it is as well known for its mistreatment of animals as it is its collection.^[6] The situation reached a point in 2010 where the Jakarta Post called the facility the 'Surabaya Zoo of Death'.^[7]
• Heroic Monument is the main symbol and one of the attractive tourist destinations in Surabaya and Southeast Asia
• Museum Nahdlatul Ulama is a nahdlatul Ulama museum, As the location of the establishment of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Surabaya apparently keeps a record of the history of community-based organizations (CBOs) in Indonesia's largest religious. To dismantle the historical record does not seem difficult, because there are NU Museum in East Gayungsari region, Surabaya.
• House of Sampoerna^[8] is a cigarette museum, and also one of the factory of Sampoerna brand cigarette. It also provides a City Sightseeing bus for free (Surabaya Heritage Track) which operates daily with the particular schedule. It also provides an English tour guide for the sightseeing.

Surabaya CBD skyline at night

Surabaya has 31 subdistricts. They are: Genteng, Bubutan, Tegalsari, Simokerto, Tambaksari, Gubeng, Krembangan, Semampir, Pabean Cantikan, Wonokromo, Sawahan, Tandes, Karang Pilang, Wonocolo, Rungkut, Sukolilo, Kenjeran, Benowo, Lakarsantri, Mulyorejo, Tenggilis Mejoyo, Gunung Anyar, Jambangan, Gayungan, Wiyung, Dukuh Pakis, Asem Rowo, Sukomanunggal, Bulak, Pakal and Sambikerep.^[9]

Surabaya contains three townships. In West Surabaya, Citraland by the Ciputra Group and Graha Family which consists of residences an apartment complex, a golf course and a climbing gym. East Surabaya, Pakuwon City by the Pakuwon Group. Pakuwon City has its own dining out spot, called Food Festival, and it is developing more facilities, such as the East Coast Center. Surabaya consists of 163 villages.^[9]

In June 2011, Surabaya got the Adipura Kencana Award as number one among 20 cities in Indonesia. Surabaya today has many wide sidewalks and parks as a miniature of Singapore -being clean and green- said one reporter from Singapore.^[10]

Climate[link]

Surabaya features a tropical wet and dry climate, with distinct wet and dry seasons. The city's wet season runs from November through May, while the dry season covers the remaining five months. Unlike a number of cities and regions with a tropical wet and dry climate, average high and low temperatures are very consistent throughout the course of the year, with an average high temperature of around 31 degrees Celsius and average low temperatures of around 26 degrees Celsius. Surabaya on average sees approximately 1500 mm of precipitation annually.

Transport[link]

Juanda International Airport - Apron

Ujung passenger Port

The city is served by Juanda International Airport. For trains, the city has several stations. They are Surabaya Kota (better known as Semut), Pasar Turi, and Gubeng. The main bus terminal is Purabaya (also known as Bungurasih, the area where it is located).

Transportation in Surabaya is supported by the infrastructure of land transport, sea and air that could serve the local trip, regional, and international. The transport of the city is supported by public transport of the city transport, taxis, and the city bus. Surabaya is also a transit city between Jakarta and Bali for ground transportation. Many tourists go through the city of Surabaya for sightseeing before they go back to Jakarta or continue their journey to Bali. Another bus routes are between Jakarta and the neighboring island of Madura.

Tanjung Perak is the main port of the city and is one of the busiest ports in the country. Nowadays, it is also one of the top ten busiest cargo ports in Southeast Asia. Although the port is nearly traditionally administered, it is also used to carry modern cargo ships worldwide. The other port of the city is located in Gresik, a city which is located less than an hour drive from Surabaya city centre to Gresik via highway. In the future, Gresik will be the location for the new harbor and Tanjung Perak will be demolished and will be redeveloped as a recreation area for Surabaya.

Juanda International Airport is the second busiest airport in Indonesia in terms of transit passengers. Many passengers transit through the airport. It is famous as a transit airport between West and East Indonesia and it is also a hub airport of many airlines. In the future, the international airport activities will be removed to the new airport somewhere at Lamongan. However, domestic airport activities will remain at the old airport.

Suramadu Bridge[link]

Suramadu Bridge currently the longest bridge in Indonesia

The Suramadu Bridge connects Surabaya and Madura Island over the Madura Strait. Suramadu is an abbreviation of Surabaya-Madura. A 16-kilometer highway will be built from the Suramadu Bridge to Madura International Seaport-City (MIS-C) in Pernajuh village, Kocah district, Bangkalan, Madura at a cost of approximately Rp60 billion ($7 million). This container port was built to ease the burden on Surabaya's overloaded Tanjung Perak Port.^[12]

Economy[link]

The city is one of the busiest ports in the country. Its principal exports include sugar, tobacco and coffee. It has a large shipyard, and numerous specialized naval schools.

As the provincial capital, Surabaya is also home to many offices and business centres. Surabaya's economy is also influenced by the recent growth in foreign industries and the completion of the Suramadu bridge. Surabaya is currently in the process of building high rise skyscrapers such as apartments, condominiums, and hotels as a way of attracting foreign people to the city.

Surabaya is the main trading port in East Java. Enriched by its facilities, and geography advantages, Surabaya has great economic potential.

Demographics[link]

Plaza Tunjungan.

A street in Surabaya.

Handelstraat, Surabaya in 1930s, now Jembatan Merah area.

Jembatan Merah, near Kya-Kya Kembang Jepun.

Kya-Kya Kembang Jepun, Chinatown in Surabaya.

Surabaya is the second most populous city in Indonesia, after Jakarta, with 2,765,908 recorded in the chartered city limits (kota) in 2010 census.^[13] Like many other large Indonesian metropolises, many residents reside outside the city limits in a metropolitan area called Gerbangkertosusila. The city is highly urbanized, due to the many industries located in the city, resulting in many slum areas. As the main education center, Surabaya has been the home for many students from around Indonesia, thus they have created their own community.

Ethnicity[link]

Foreign nationalities represented include Australian, Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Arab, and European. In addition to Javanese and Madurese natives, the city also has representatives of other Indonesian areas: Sunda, Minangkabau, Batak, Banjar, Balinese, and Bugis.

The majority of Surabaya citizens work in retail, whether in the expensive stores in the center city or the many small shops and stalls throughout the metropolis.

Surabaya is an old city that has expanded over time, and its population still grows at approximately 1.2% per year. In recent years, people have been moving from the crowded city center to suburban subdivisions featuring golf courses and strict security.

Language[link]

Most citizens speak a dialect of Javanese called Suroboyoan. A stereotype of this dialect concerns its equality and directness in speech. The usage of register is less strict than the Central Javan dialect. The Surabaya dialect is actively promoted in local media, such as in local TV shows, radio and traditional dramas called Ludruk.

Time[link]

In Indonesia, the keeping of standard time is divided into three time zones, Surabaya follow the Western Indonesian Time/WIT (Indonesian: Waktu Indonesia Barat/WIB) (UTC+7).

Religion[link]

Most citizens in Surabaya adhere to Islam. Other religions include Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism

• Islam

Islam is the main religion in Surabaya.^[14]

• Orthodox Christianity

The city is also home to the Orthodox Christian Center Surabaya which was opened on 15 October 2008 by Father Yohanes Bambang Cahyo Wicaksono an Orthodox Priest.^[15] The city is also home to two Orthodox Christian Community centres and there are plans to establish a kindergarten, High School and University in the medium term. The head Orthodox Church in Indonesia, St Nikolas is also based in Surabaya.^[16] On 12 January a new Orthodox Orthodox Community center was opened in the Dinoyo district, beside St. Nikolaos Orthodox Church.^[17]

• Roman Catholicism

The city is the home of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Surabaya.

• Protestant Christianity

In 2000 Graha Bethany Nginden conducted a soft opening at the same time doubling the Church Seminar International (SPGI) 2000. This place can accommodate 20 000 members of the congregation.

Bethany Indonesian Church Synod, or Bethany is an incorporated church Synod of Indonesia and based in Surabaya. Bethany is one church with charismatic theology with a Pentecostal denomination. This church is a member of the Evangelical Fellowship of Indonesia (PII).

Bethany Indonesian Church, acknowledged, accepted, and set the Apostles' Creed as the Confession of Faith Church Bethany Indonesia.

Surabaya is also the base of one of Asia's largest Megachurches. Gereja Mawar Sharon is a non-denominational charismatic church with over 30 churches in Indonesia and over 40000 church goers every week. Gereja Mawar Sharon or Mawar Sharon Church has been holding major events in Surabaya such as Surabaya For Jesus, Asia For Jesus, Festival Kuasa Allah (Festival of God's Power) and many more. It has the largest Christian youth group of over 8000 weekly attendance. In Surabaya alone, Mawar Sharon Church have over 17000 church members

Dolly[link]

Dolly is a brothel district in Surabaya known throughout Indonesia, with an estimated 2,000 prostitutes working there.^[18] It is the largest lokalisasi (prostitution tolerance zone) in Indonesia,^[19] and the largest red-light district in Southeast Asia,^[20] and Islamic groups have campaigned to close it. In June 2011, the administration announced plans to decrease the commercial sex worker population from 1,132 to 750 by the end of 2012 by applying restricted hours instead of the current 24-hour operation.^[21] Although it has been forced to move several times in history, Dolly is thought to have been originally founded by a Dutch madam, Dolly van der Mart.^[22]

Education[link]

Tenth of November Institute of Technology library building

Surabaya has several major universities and institutions with religious or technical specialties. Some of them are Universitas Airlangga (Airlangga University),^[23] Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya (Tenth of November Institute of Technology), Universitas Negeri Surabaya (State University of Surabaya), Universitas Hang Tuah Surabaya,^[24] Universitas Kristen Petra, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Universitas Ciputra, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala, Universitas Surabaya, Universitas Bhayangkara, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran, Universitas Putra Bangsa, Institut Teknologi Adi Tama Surabaya, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel, Universitas Ciputra,^[25] and Universitas Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya

Sister relationships[link]

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Surabaya has sister relationships with a number of towns worldwide:

• Seattle, United States, since 1992
• Beijing, China, since 2006
• Kōchi, Japan
• Mashhad, Iran
• Busan, South Korea
• Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Izmir, Turkey since 1996
• Guangzhou, China, since 2005
• Xiamen, China, since 2006
• Porto Alegre, Brazil since 2008
• Johor Bahru, Malaysia since 2008
• Fuzhou, China, since 2009
• Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Alexandria, Egypt
• Kuching, Malaysia
• Varna, Bulgaria
• Naples, Italy

References[link]

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External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Surabaya

Indonesia portal

• Official website
• Surabaya travel guide from Wikitravel
• Satellite picture by Google Maps

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Lotte Lenya
photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1962
Born	Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer (1898-10-18)October 18, 1898 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	November 27, 1981(1981-11-27) (aged 83) New York City, New York, USA
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1922–1981
Spouse	Kurt Weill (1926–1933, 1937–1950) George Davis (1951–57) Russell Detwiler (1962–1969)

Lotte Lenya (18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian singer, diseuse, ^[1] and actress.^[2] In the German-speaking and classical music world she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language film she is remembered for her Academy Award-nominated role in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) and as the sadistic and vengeful Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love (1963).

The early years[link]

Lenya was born as Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer to working class parents in Vienna. She moved to study in Zürich 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.

Career[link]

In 1922 Lenya was seen by her future husband, the German composer Kurt Weill, during an audition for his first stage score Zaubernacht, but because of his position behind the piano, she did not see him. She was cast, but owing to her loyalty to her voice teacher who was not, she declined the role. She accepted the part of Jenny in the first performance of The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) in 1928 and the part became her breakthrough role. During the last years of the Weimar Republic, she was busy in film and theatre, and especially in Brecht-Weill plays. She also made several recordings of Weill's songs.^{[citation needed]}

With the rise of Nazism in Germany, she left the country, having become estranged from Weill. (They would later divorce and remarry.) In March, 1933, she fled to Paris, where she sang the leading part in Brecht-Weill's "sung ballet," The Seven Deadly Sins.

Lenya and Weill settled in New York City on 10 September 1935.^[3] During the summer of 1936, Lenya, Paul Green, Cheryl Crawford and her husband rented an old house at 277 Trumbull Avenue in Nichols, Connecticut, about two miles from Pine Brook Country Club, which was the summer rehearsal headquarters of the Group Theatre.^[4][5] It was here that Green and Weill wrote the screenplay and music for the controversial Broadway play Johnny Johnson, which was titled after the most frequently occurring name on the American casualty list of World War I. It was also during this time that Lenya had her first American love affair with playwright Paul Green.^[6][7]

During World War II, Lenya did a number of stage performances, recordings and radio performances, including for the Voice of America. After a badly received part in her husband's musical The Firebrand of Florence in 1945 in New York, she withdrew from the stage.^{[citation needed]} After Weill's death in 1950, she was coaxed back to the stage. She appeared on Broadway in Barefoot in Athens and married influential American editor George Davis.

Late career[link]

In 1956 she won a Tony Award for her role as Jenny in Marc Blitzstein's English version of The Threepenny Opera, the only time an Off-Broadway performance has been so honored. Lenya went on to record a number of songs from her time in Berlin, as well as songs from the American stage. Her voice had deepened with age. When she was to sing the soprano part in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Seven Deadly Sins, the part needed transposition to substantially lower keys.^{[citation needed]}

Sprechstimme was used in some famous songs in the Brecht-Weill plays, but now Lenya used it even more to compensate for the shortcomings of her voice. Lenya was aware of this as a problem; in other contexts she was very careful about fully respecting her late husband's score.^{[citation needed]} She founded the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, to administer incomes and issues regarding rights, and to spread knowledge about Weill's work. She was present in the studio when Louis Armstrong recorded Brecht-Weill's Mack the Knife. Armstrong improvised the line "Look out for Miss Lotte Lenya!" and added her name to the list of Mack's female conquests in the song.

Her role as Vivien Leigh's earthy friend Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales in the screen version of Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) brought Lenya an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress.

In 1963, she was cast as the SPECTRE agent Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love, starring Sean Connery and Robert Shaw. In the final scene in the film, she wore a shoe with a switchblade knife that sprang forth to stick out the front of the shoe; however this failed to eliminate Bond and she was fatally shot by Bond girl Tatiana Romanova (played by Daniela Bianchi).^[8] She later said in interviews that when she met new people, the first thing they looked at was her shoes.

In 1966, Lenya originated the role of Fräulein Schneider in the original Broadway cast of the musical Cabaret. Kander's and Ebb's score was considered by some to be inspired by Weill's music. This, combined with Lenya's personal history made her a particularly appropriate casting choice.

Personal life[link]

Lenya and Weill did not meet properly until 1924 through a mutual acquaintance, the writer Georg Kaiser. They married in 1926, and later divorced in 1933, only to reconcile in September 1935 after emigrating to the United States. They remarried in 1937. In 1941, the couple moved to a house of their own in New City, Rockland County, New York, roughly 50 km north of New York City. Their second marriage lasted until Weill's death in 1950.

Her second husband was the American editor George Davis (1951–57). After Davis's death in 1957, she married the artist Russell Detwiler in 1962. He was 26 years her junior, but died at the age of 44 in 1969.

Death[link]

Lenya died in New York of cancer in 1981, aged 83. She is buried next to Weill in Haverstraw, New York.

Legacy[link]

In 2007, the musical Lovemusik, based on Lenya's relationship with Weill, opened on Broadway. Lenya was portrayed by Donna Murphy.

In 1956, Louis Armstrong recorded the song "Mack the Knife", both as a solo number and as a duet with Lenya. Armstrong added Lenya's name into the lyrics, in place of one the characters in the play. Other recordings of the song, most notably Bobby Darin's in 1959, have continued this tradition.

She is also mentioned in the Fascinating Aida song "Lieder", which originally described her as German, but was corrected for later performances.

Filmography[link]

• The Threepenny Opera (1931) - Jenny Diver
• Interregnum (1960) - Narrator
• The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) - Contessa
• From Russia with Love (1963) - Rosa Klebb
• Übungstücke für Schauspieler (1964)
• Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1965) - Mother Courage
• Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966) - The Gypsy
• The Appointment (1969) - Emma Valadier
• Semi-Tough (1977) - Clara Pelf

Notes[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lotte Lenya

• Register to the Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya at Yale University Music Library
• Lotte Lenya at Find a Grave
• Lotte Lenya at the Internet Broadway Database
• Lotte Lenya at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Lotte Lenya at the Internet Movie Database
• FemBio: Lotte Lenya
• Threepenny Opera Off-Broadway