Adelheid Bernhardt

Adelheid Bernhardt (born June 27, 1854 in Puschwitz near Torgau , † July 1915 in Dresden ) was a German writer , actress and director.

Life

Bernhardt grew up in Leipzig and Dresden, where she frequented artistic circles from an early age. In 1878 she joined the Dresden Ensemble guest performance as an actress , which she also led as director and director from 1883 to 1898. During this time it played under different names, such as Dresdener Schauspiel-Ensemble , Dresdener Gesammt-Gastspiel and Dresdener Ensemble . In 1890 the troupe appeared at the Ducal Court Theater Altenburg and in 1902 gave the last guest performance at the Central Theater in Dresden. Members of the Dresden ensemble guest performance included Pauline Ulrich and Ludwig Barnay . Guest performances have also taken the troupe abroad, for example to Amsterdam and Austria-Hungary .

As a writer, Adelheid Bernhardt stood out above all with biographical works that dealt with the theater or the opera. She died in Dresden- Blasewitz in 1915 .

Works

• From the Dresden court theater. Biographical sketches. Pierson, Dresden 1882.
• Reminder sheet to Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann along with her letters to a friend. Pierson, Dresden 1883.
• Artist experiences. Elischer, Leipzig 1891.
• Katharina Klafsky. Memories of an unforgettable one. Bruns, Minden 1896.

literature

• Bernhardt, Miss Adelheid . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 60 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , ( Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 24.
• Adelheid Bernhardt . In: Artists on the Dresden Elbhang . Volume 2. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-936240-09-2 , p. 32.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adelheid Bernhardt in the catalog of the German National Library