Agnes Straub
Agnes Josephine Straub (born April 2, 1890 in Munich , † July 8, 1941 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German actress .
life and work
Agnes Straub first appeared on stage in an open-air performance in Dachau when she was thirteen . She then received acting lessons and, at the age of eighteen, her first engagement as Sappho in Franz Grillparzer 's drama of the same name. Engagements in Bonn , Königsberg , Vienna and Berlin followed .
In Berlin she quickly became a celebrated stage star - in the category of Elisabeth Bergner and Grete Mosheim . She played at the Berlin State Theater (with Leopold Jessner ), Theater am Schiffbauerdamm , Volksbühne Berlin , Deutsches Theater , Schiller Theater , Rose Theater, Kleines Theater, etc. Every theater director was happy when she appeared at his place, because her appearance guaranteed full houses.
From 1925 she mostly worked with her then partner, the Jewish director and actor Leo Reuss . In order to be able to better protect him, she founded the Agnes-Straub-Theater in the early 1930s , which was later continued as the theater on Kurfürstendamm . At the same time, both of them performed with their ensemble in theaters throughout the German-speaking area as the “Agnes Straub Ensemble”.
After a theater scandal in Stettin , Reuss was banned from working in Germany and soon had to emigrate. Three years later, Agnes Straub had a serious car accident that brought her career to an abrupt end and of the aftermath of which she died three years later.
Her legacy today is the "Agnes Straub Foundation" in Gries im Pinzgau, a recreation and holiday home for stage performers. Her grave is in the St. Georgen cemetery in Bruck an der Großglocknerstrasse , state of Salzburg .
Agnes Straub was the first to wear the Louise Dumont Topaz , which Gustav Lindemann donated as a theater prize for actresses after the death of his wife Louise Dumont .
Theater roles (selection)
- Berta - Sappho ( Franz Grillparzer )
- Lady Milford - Cabal and Love ( Friedrich Schiller )
- Medea - Medea (Franz Grillparzer)
- Hedda - Hedda Gabler ( Henrik Ibsen )
- " Caroline Neuber " - in the play "Die Neuberin" by Günter Weisenborn
Filmography
- 1919: The Queen of Heaven
- 1919: The seventeen year olds
- 1919: The Devil's Church
- 1920: For love's sake
- 1920: The judge of Zalamea
- 1920: The skull of the pharaohs daughters
- 1921: The novel by Christine von Herre
- 1921: On the red cliff
- 1921: From the black book of a police commissioner, part 2
- 1922: The Earl of Essex
- 1922: The wrong Dimitry
- 1922: Fridericus Rex 3rd part
- 1923: Fridericus Rex 4th part
- 1923: Between evening and morning
- 1924: The way to God
- 1923: Wilhelm Tell
- 1925: The House of Lies
- 1927: primary love
- 1930: mandrake
- 1933: SA man fire
- 1934: The four musketeers
- 1937: White slaves
- 1937: Fridericus
- 1937: The Warsaw Citadel
- 1938: Well, you don't know Korff yet?
literature
- Agnes Straub: In the vortex of the new century , Hüthig & Co. , Heidelberg 1942
- Gwendolyn von Ambesser : The rats enter the sinking ship , Verlag Edition AV, Frankfurt a. M. 2005, ISBN 3-936049-47-5
- Walther Killy et al. a. (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 9, p. 571.
- Arnolt Bronnen : Encounters with actors, Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1967, pp. 70–75
Web links
- Agnes Straub in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Agnes Straub archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Obituary for Agnes Straub in Die Zeitung , London, July 24, 1941, p. 3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Straub, Agnes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Straub, Agnes Josephine (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1941 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Charlottenburg |