Adele Hartwig

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Adele Hartwig

Adele Hartwig (in Vienna before 1893 - after 1933) was an Austrian theater actress .

Life

Hartwig, who came from a family of priests and officers, went to the stage of his own free will. This led to an estrangement from her family.

In 1893 she made her debut as “Maria Stuart” in Wiener Neustadt . After that she had engagements at the City Theater Olomouc (1895) and at the City Theater Brno (1896), where she appeared in modern plays. In late 1896 and early 1897 she played in New York ; She made her US debut in October 1896 in The Official Woman . From 1897 to 1900 she was part of the permanent ensemble of the Braunschweig Court Theater . At the Hoftheater Braunschweig she was engaged for the role of " salon lady ". However, their repertoire extended beyond that; there she played different roles "according to individuality", u. a. also the Rößl landlady in the comedy Im White Rößl by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg . In October 1899 she performed as " Nora " at the Braunschweig court theater .

She then worked for some time at the Residenztheater Berlin (debut role in September 1900, also “ Nora ”). There, however, she broke the contract due to a lack of employment and joined the Association of New Theater in Berlin in 1901 . She played there u. a. the title role in Oscar Wilde's play Salome in a new production. With this production she also made a guest appearance at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna in December 1903 . In 1903 she played the Queen in Maurice Maeterlinck's play Pelléas et Mélisande in Max Reinhardt's first own theater production at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . From 1904 she was permanently engaged at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . There she took over the role of Raina in December 1904 in the German premiere of George Bernard Shaw's play Helden . In 1905 she played the role of Hedwig (Tell's wife) in Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell at the Deutsches Theater ; she also worked in Henri Murger's Die Bohème .

From 1906 she appeared again at the New Theater Berlin under the direction of Alfred Schmieden. In the 1907 edition of the “New Theater Almanach” she is listed as a member of the Kleiner Theater Berlin. From 1907 she worked as a freelance guest actress. In August 1909 she made a guest appearance at the Residenztheater in Frankfurt am Main , where she appeared with Harry Walden and Ernst Bach in one-act plays by Rudolf Presber , William Somerset Maugham , Walter Turszinsky and Hans Brennert . In 1912 an engagement followed at the Komödienhaus in Berlin, Schiffbauerdamm 25. There Hartwig played the title role in the comedy Die Zarin by Melchior Lengyel and Ludwig Biro (premiere: Komödienhaus, September 27, 1912). From April 1913, she briefly ran the Komödienhaus together with Toni Impekoven , and both of them also took over the management of the troubled Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtischer Schauspielhaus at Chausseestrasse 30/31. From 1914 she was again a freelance guest. From 1915 to 1918 she and her husband, the actor Walter Wassermann , directed the German Theater in Łódź , a front-line theater during the First World War , where she also worked as an actress and director. From 1918 she played theater in Berlin again.

Hartwig also appeared in plays by Arthur Schnitzler . She showed her versatility a. in that in one evening she embodied both the tragic role of Christine in Liebelei and the comic role of the ballet dancer Annie in the episode Farewell Souper in Schnitzler's theater cycle Anatol .

In 1921 and 1922 she was seen in a few silent films. In 1926 she founded the English Theater - German Actor (EV) in Berlin, of which she was director until the early 1930s. She led u. a. Pieces by George Bernard Shaw on.

Adele Hartwig was married to a Mr. Petz and was called Adele Hartwig-Petz until 1903. In 1903 she returned to her maiden name - presumably after the divorce.

Filmography

  • 1921: Deceiver of the people
  • 1921: shade plants in the big city
  • 1921: The wandering suitcase
  • 1922: The Queen of Whitechapel
  • 1922: The shadows of that night

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A history of the New York stage from the first performance in 1732 to 1901 p. 238. Retrieved March 29, 2015
  2. ↑ Nora cast the performance at the Ducal Court Theater Braunschweig. Season 1899/1900. Ibsen.nb.no. Retrieved March 29, 2015
  3. ^ Nora cast the performance at the Residenz Theater Berlin on September 16, 1900. Ibsen.nb.no. Retrieved March 29, 2015
  4. ↑ Berliner Leben : Our Pictures . (PDF) with a photo by Adele Hartwig. In: magazine for beauty and art. Pp. 4, 10 , archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on July 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hartwig, Adele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH before 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH after 1933