Agnes Wallner

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Agnes Wallner
( Auguste Hüssener )

Agnes Wallner , née Kretschmar (born December 22, 1824 in Leipzig , † September 23, 1901 in Berlin ) was a German actress and theater director.

childhood

Agnes was born the twelfth child of a businessman and showed an early interest in the theater, where she began as an extra. In 1841 she came to the then theater cashier Robert Blum as a foster child , who promoted and trained her. At the age of 14, she played the first role of Liesel in the play The Spender . Her first major role was the peasant girl in Kotzebues Bayard . She celebrated her first major successes as Titania in Midsummer Night's Dream .

1843 to 1849

From 1843 to 1845 she was on tour and played in Chemnitz , Halle and the court theater in Altenburg . In 1845 the director Karl Friedrich Cerf brought them to the Königsstädtische Theater in Berlin (from 1858 Wallner Theater ). There she met again Franz Wallner , whom she had met in Leipzig in 1843 . The director Ringelhardt then brought her to Riga , where she made a successful guest appearance. In the spring of 1846, Franz Wallner also followed to Riga and the two became engaged, although he was still married at the time. Wallner received an arrangement in St. Petersburg and Agnes went to Bremen at Easter 1847 .

After the divorce, the couple married on May 8, 1848. Also in 1848, in November, their sponsor Blum, who was also active as a politician, was shot dead. Nonetheless, she received an arrangement at the court theater in St.Petersburg. It was very successful and was admired by Tsar Nicholas I. Nevertheless she went traveling again, was in Leipzig from October 1849 to January 1850 and made guest appearances in Frankfurt am Main , Mannheim , Zurich , Hamburg , Wiesbaden , Cologne and Posen .

Role development

In 1850, Franz Wallner was offered stage management in Freiburg im Breisgau and he accepted his first position as director. Thus, under his direction, the performance of Wagner's Tannhäuser and the singer's war on Wartburg took place . The Catholic clergy were not impressed by the opera and called for a boycott , so the couple left Freiburg and went first to Baden-Baden and, in 1853, to Posen. Agnes Wallner's roles developed from a naive, youthful lover to an intriguer and salon lady. That advanced her artistically and financially.

Berlin time

In 1855 Franz Wallner was given the opportunity to take over the Königsstädtisches Theater in Berlin . When the theater in Posen got into financial difficulties, Wallner came back. This gave his wife the opportunity to perform plays by the author Dumas . On October 11, 1855, the first performance of Parisian customs (“Demi Monde”) took place under her direction. On November 22nd, 1855, the first performance of The Lady of the Camellias was a great success. The successes attracted Berlin society and so numerous celebrities of the time met in their house .

Farewells

Her last stage appearance was on October 20, 1875 in the Wallnertheater in the play Come Here! whose proceeds were used to build the national monument in the Niederwald .

Hans Blum , the son of her sponsor, published her biography in 1899 ; she herself died on September 23, 1901.

family

She married Franz Wallner on May 8, 1848 . The couple had several children. After the death of her husband, she remarried. The marriage soon ended in divorce. She had several children:

  • Alexander (* 1849) (went to America, writer)
  • Heinrich (September 1850 - December 2, 1927)
  • Max (April 1852 - September 1851)
  • Franz (1854–1940) actor and author ∞ Charlotte Basté (1867–1928), actress

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Theater Almanac For The Year, Volume 13, p.153
  2. ^ Author of z. B. A night among outlaws
personal data
SURNAME Wallner, Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kretschmar, Agnes (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig , Germany
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1901
Place of death Berlin , Germany