Adele Schönfeld

Adele Schönfeld (born July 28, 1888 in Frankfurt am Main , † June 22, 1953 in London-Wandsworth ) was a German actress .

Life

Adele Schönfeld began her theater career on November 9, 1904 with the role of little Perdita in William Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale . Early theater stations before the outbreak of World War I were Weimar (Court Theater) and Cologne (United City Theaters ). In her early days, Adele Schönfeld took the adolescent lover's subject. She played Marianne in Die Geschwister , Klärchen in Egmont and Gretchen in Faust , all of which were pieces from the pen of Goethe .

Even in the early 1920s she remained connected to Cologne, but in the same decade, now married to an Englishman, she joined the Schauspielhaus Bochum as Adele Schönfeld de St. George , at that time still part of the United City Theater Duisburg-Bochum, where the director Saladin Schmitt became her great sponsor.

For a long time after 1933, the “ half-Jewish ” artist according to the Nazi racial legislation remained unmolested. It was not until the summer of 1938 that the Propaganda Ministry became aware of them.

“In a letter to the Lord Mayor of Bochum, the Goebbels authorities were amazed at the fact that the artist, who was still in October of the previous year on the occasion of the presentation of the II. German Shakespeare Week in Bochum, gave Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess a congratulatory course Had to shake hands, still at the one of the renowned theater maker Prof. Dr. Saladin Schmitt headed the municipal stage was employed. Since the now 50-year-old actress was needed for the Hebbel Week planned for spring 1939, she was forced to be released immediately afterwards. "

- Quoted from Kay Less 2008

Adele Schönfeld then emigrated to her husband's homeland and found employment with the BBC in London . She died in London-Wandsworth in the second quarter of 1953.

literature

• Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 102.
• Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 9.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 10.