Anna Lesser-Kiessling

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Anna Lesser-Kiessling , pseudonym Anielka (* 26 December 1841 in Berlin as Charlotte Caroline Anna Kiessling ; † after 1902) was royal Prussian court actress, Austrian journal writer , lecture champion and pioneer of emancipation .

life and work

Anna Kiessling performed as a pianist at the age of nine. After her training with Auguste Crelinger , she was engaged at the royal court theater in Berlin in 1858 and made guest appearances in Hanover , Kassel and Königsberg , among others . At the age of twenty she married the Russian court actor and later theater director Stanislaus Lesser . After her stage career, Lesser-Kiessling gave aesthetics and acting lessons and began to write. Initially ten years of reviews, later mainly features as well as art-critical and biographical articles for various magazines. After going blind in April 1896, Lesser-Kiessling also wrote dramas and novels.

social commitment

In Darmstadt , Lesser-Kiessling founded the “Sunday rest” association, the “child labor school” and the first “flying holiday colony for poor school girls” and headed it for three years. Their Germany-wide public relations measures (at that time still called propaganda) such as lectures and newspaper articles ultimately led to the establishment of the Society of the White Cross by the then Prussian minister. During a flood in the Grand Duchy of Hesse , Lesser-Kiessling also practically helped to save the threatened village of Leheim.

In Vienna, Lesser-Kiessling was co-founder and co-director of the “First Vienna People's Quartet for Classical Music” (Duesberg Quartet), “the first and so far only musical-academic artists' association in which, alongside first artists ( August Duesberg , Gschöpf), women artists (Baronesse Baumgarten, Philomena Kurz) participate constantly. "

In addition, she gave lectures on women's morality, vegetarianism and the "idea of ​​the holiday colonies of the white cross" in Germany, the Netherlands , Switzerland and Austria , which "caused significant movements in these countries".

Lesser-Kiessling's lectures on the question of morality also brought a lawsuit before the Darmstadt jury. She defended herself and obtained an acquittal for her and the countess Gertrude Guillaume-Schack who was accused with her .

Publications

  • About the common education of both genders at all teaching levels . In: Announcements of the Association of Teachers in Austria (No. 5, July 15, 1890)
  • Lesser-Kiessling, Anna: Sonnets by Anielka (pseud.) Singer, Strasbourg (etc.) 1908 (signature of the ÖNB: 250278-C.Fid (= 110–118))

Stage plays

  • The mountain fairy
  • Andreas Hofer or three brides in the tobacco shop
  • The goddess secret
  • The emancipated countess and the bon vivant

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg, Richard Groner: The spiritual Vienna: artist and writer lexicon . Vienna 1889–1893.
  • Hermann Clemens Kosel (ed.): German-Austrian artist and writer lexicon. Society for the graphic industry, Vienna 1902-06.
  • Marianne Nigg: Biographies of Austrian Poets and Writers. A contribution to German literature in Austria. Korneuburg 1893.
  • Lesser-Kiessling, Anna . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 496 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptismal register Dorotheenstädtische Kirche Berlin, No. 108/1842
  2. ^ A b c Marianne Nigg: Biographies of the Austrian poets and writers. A contribution to German literature in Austria. Korneuburg 1893.
personal data
SURNAME Lesser-Kiessling, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anielka (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, publicist and pioneer of emancipation
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th century