Agnes friend

Agnes friend

Agnes Freund , nee Agnes Voss (born July 13, 1866 in Königsberg , † after 1902) was a German theater actress .

Life

She was the daughter of the composer and trumpeter of the 1st Field Artillery Regiment Voss and his wife Ottilie. In 1874 Freund made his debut at the municipal theater in her hometown in a child role. Since she received critical acclaim there, she received private lessons from the actress Minona Frieb-Blumauer .

At the beginning of the 1880s she then appeared in Halle as "Klärchen" in Goethe's " Egmont ". After some engagements in Halle and Berlin ( Neues Theater and Lessingtheater ), she was only seen sporadically on German stages. Long tours and guest performances have taken her to Graz , Vienna , Saint Petersburg and Moscow .

Freund began her career as a young lover , but soon switched to the tragic heroine . She was married to the publisher Carl Freund . For the writer Julius Stinde , Freund was a confidante, stimulator and first critic. Stinde made a memorial to her in the character of the "Majorin von Wingleb" in his novel Der Liedermacher (1893). The book is dedicated: “Mrs. Agnes Freund / geb. Voss / dedicated to the art-loving wife of my publisher / sincere admiration / ”.

Some letters from Agnes Freund can be found in Julius Stinde's estate, which is administered by the Berlin State Library .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 154 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Wilhelm Kosch: Deutsches Theater-Lexikon: biographical and bibliographical manual . Saur, Munich 1951ff., Volume 1, p. 490

Web links

Biography and reprint of some of her letters to Julius Stinde ( memento from June 6, 2011 in the web archive archive.today ) by Ulrich Goerdten