Adele Doré

Adele Milan-Doré around 1905

Adele Doré , married Adele Milan-Doré (born April 9, 1869 in Vienna , † February 9, 1918 in Berlin ) was an Austrian actress.

Live and act

As the daughter of a musician at the Vienna Court Opera , she received her acting training at Max Otto's theater school in Vienna and from her future husband Emil Milan. Her stage career began with minor roles in 1888 at the Deutsches Theater in Amsterdam and as a tragedian at the Salzburg State Theater . Her further path took her via Regensburg in 1890 to Cologne, where she made her debut as "Hero" (in Franz Grillparzer's "Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen") and was successful in character subjects for seven years. a. as “Magda” in Hermann Sudermann's “Heimat”, remained effective. In 1897 she was engaged at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, where she first appeared as "Nora". In 1901 it switched to the newly opened oneDeutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, made her debut with the role of "Klara" and remained committed to this stage ensemble until shortly before her death. She achieved her artistic breakthrough there in 1902 with the depiction of Grillparzer's "Medea". Just as convincingly she interpreted the Hebbel female figures (in addition to the “Klara” [from “Maria Magdalena”], the “Judith”, the “Mariamne” [from “Herodes and Mariamne”] and the “Rhodope” [from “ Gyges und seine Ring "]), Further Friedrich Schiller's" Maria Stuart ", Sophocles '" Elektra ", the" Rebekka West "(from Ibsen's" Rodmersholm "), the" Christine "(from Arthur Schnitzler's" Liebelei "), the" Alice "(from August Strindberg's “Dance of Death”) and the “Gerlind” from Ernst Hardt's “Gudrun”.

She was married to the actor, director and writer Emil Milan (1859-1917). Both graves are located in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

literature

• Ottmar G. Flüggen: Biographical stage lexicon of the German theaters . Munich 1892.
• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 210, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
• Kurt Küchler: Hamburg actor portraits: Max Montor, Robert Nihl, Adele Doré, Alex Otto . Altona-Ottensen 1910.
• Robert Nihl: The colorful book of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . 1925, p. 51 f.
• Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon . Vol. 2. Klagenfurt-Vienna 1960.
• E. Marktl:  Milan Adele, b. Doré. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 290.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia, 2nd A., Munich 2007, p. 104.