Agatha Bârsescu

Agathe Bârsescu in 1884

Agatha Bârsescu (born September 9, 1861 in Bucharest , Romania ; died in 1939 there ) was a Romanian stage actress , singer and silent film actress .

Life

She received her education in a palace in the Romanian royal seat, in the house of a military dignitary close to the court. As she grew up, she was accepted into a monastery, where she was to be trained as a nun. Once, when she was singing a pious song in full voice, she believed she was unobserved, she heard an Italian impresario who was giving guest performances with his opera company in Bucharest. He liked the voice so much that he ordered the young girl to appear in a public concert for a charitable cause, for which he obtained the necessary permission from her superiors and parents. Queen Elisabeth zu Wied , who attended the production, was interested in Bârsescu from that hour on, and she decided to take care of her artistic training and from then on followed the development and development process with the greatest benevolence. After the young singer had already performed several times on the stage of the royal theater in opera roles and was always popular, the parents decided to dedicate themselves to opera singing professionally. She was to be sent to Paris for further training, on the way there she stopped in Vienna and entered the Conservatory as an opera teacher. Her acting talent alone was so undeniably evident that she transferred to drama school without having a perfect command of the German language and there she surrendered to dramatic studies with a truly unheard of energy that amazed her teachers. After leaving school, she was hired directly to the Burgtheater via Berlin , where she made her debut on November 22, 1883. There she said goodbye on November 30, 1890 and went to the Stadttheater Hamburg. She stayed there until 1893 and then worked at the newly opened Raimund Theater in Vienna. In 1898 she worked again in Vienna. After she left Vienna again, she played in Bucharest in Romanian at the National Theater until 1902.

Her life after 1902 is unknown. It only appeared in a German silent film in 1913. She died in 1939.

Filmography

• 1912: the miracle

literature

• Barsescu Agathe. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 51.
• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 49 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Miracle (1912). In: imdb.com. Retrieved July 7, 2020 . 

Web links

Commons : Agatha Bârsescu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Agatha Bârsescu at filmportal.de
• Agatha Bârsescu at The German Early Cinema Database

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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