Adelheid bet
Adelheid Catharina Maria Wette , also Adelheit or French Adelaide (born September 4, 1858 in Siegburg , † August 9, 1916 in Eberstadt ) was a German writer and librettist .
Life
Adelheid Wette, nee Humperdinck , was the daughter of a high school director and the sister of the composer Engelbert Humperdinck . She grew up in Siegburg and Xanten and married Hermann Wette on September 20, 1881 in Xanten . For her brother Engelbert she wrote the libretto for his opera Hansel and Gretel . Wette also contributed to Humperdinck's partly unfinished operas Snow White and The Seven Geislein . She lived in Cologne . Works by her are also included in the German children's song book ( Perthes Verlag , Gotha 1903).
literature
- Franz Stieger: Opera Lexicon. Part 3: Librettists . Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1977.
- Roland Dotzert et al .: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt , Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-1930-3 and ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , p. 986.
- Bet Adelheid . In: German Literature Lexicon . Vol. 31: Werenberg-Wiedling. De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023571-5 , Sp. 381. ( limited preview in Google book search)
Web links
- Literature by and about Adelheid Wette in the catalog of the German National Library
- Adelheid Wette in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source for death data: Wette, Adelheid. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bet Adelheid |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bet, Adelheid Catharina Maria (full name); Humperdinck, Adelheid Catharina Maria (birth name); Bet, nobility; Bet Adelaide |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Siegburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1916 |
| Place of death | Eberstadt |