Elsa Marguérite Galafrés
Elsa Marguérite Galafrés , also Elza, married names: Elsa Huberman, Elsa von Dohnányi and Elza Stewart (born May 23, 1879 in Berlin , † 1977 in Vancouver ) was a German theater actress .
Life
Galafrés, the daughter of a businessman , first trained as a piano player and performed successfully as a concert performer on December 1, 1893 at the Philharmonie in Berlin . Although she received encouraging applause, she decided against the profession of pianist and decided to become an actress.
When she was fifteen, her talent for declamation was noticed at a charity concert in Havelberg , and she also tried her talent on the stage of the Urania Theater. After taking lessons from Ottilie Genée , Friedrich Haase gave her the opportunity to make her first appearance on the occasion of his guest performance in Halle . There she made her debut on December 16, 1894 as "Ellen Friborg" in Am Spieltisch des Lebens .
She found her first engagement at the Court Theater in Berlin, where she made her debut as “Perdita” in Shakespeare's Winter Tale . In 1896 she came to the city theater in Riga (inaugural role: "Queen" in Carlos ), then she was in Hanover (inaugural role: "Anna-Liese") and after three years (farewell role: " Lorle") went to Hamburg (inaugural role: "Rita "In the talisman )
She was married to the violinist and composer Bronisław Huberman from 1910 to 1913 and to the Hungarian pianist and composer Ernst von Dohnányi from 1919 to 1949 . She then married the radiologist Clifton Stewart and lived with him in English Bay near Vancouver in Canada .
Filmography
- 1911: trilby
- 1915: Through night to light
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 303, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Elsa Marguérite Galafrés at The German Early Cinema Database
- Elsa Marguérite Galafrés in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jochen Thies: The Dohnanyis .: A family biography. Propylaen-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-549-07190-8 ( google.at [accessed on May 9, 2017]).
- ^ Piotr Szalsza : Huberman, Bronisław. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Galafrés, Elsa Marguérite |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huberman, Elsa; Dohnányi, Elsa von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1977 |
| Place of death | Vancouver , Clark County , Washington |