Anna Rubner

Anna Rubner , born as Anna Juliana Marianne Szombathy (born September 26, 1883 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † April 21, 1968 in Eden Gemeinnützige Obstbau-Siedlung / Oranienburg , GDR ), was an Austro-German stage actress , theater director and director .

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Early years as a stage actress

Anna Rubner received her artistic training at the Vienna Conservatory and, in order to gain a second economic pillar, also trained as a tailor. On her 20th birthday she gave her theater debut in the Moravian Troppau. There she only stayed one season, then moved to Linz and another season later to Salzburg. After another one year engagement, this time in Hamburg, she returned to Vienna in 1907 to fulfill an engagement at the Raimund Theater. Commitments to Breslau and Berlin followed. At a young age, Anna Rubner took the subject of the first heroine, lover and salon lady. Her repertoire of roles included Feodora, Rhodope (in Gyges und seine Ring ), Magda (in Heimat ), Marikke in Johannisfeuer , Juliet (in Romeo and Juliet ), Hero, Rose Bernd and Renate in Der Strom .

In Berlin she made contact with the left wing of the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine and since then has been committed to improving the social situation of actresses with speeches and actions.

Life and work in Eden

In 1915 Anna Rubner settled in the Eden district of Oranienburg. In Oranienburg she arranged regular theater performances with actors without engagement after the First World War . In 1928 the working group "Laienspiele" was created in Eden, which had developed from Anna Rubner's first artistic efforts since 1915. In 1930 pieces began to be performed there. Rubner staged 158 pieces in a total of 317 performances with the Edener Heimatbühne until the beginning of the Second World War . Were played u. a. the classic works by Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Calderón, Molière, Goldoni, Goethe, Schiller, Lessing, Grillparzer, Nestroy as well as the teasing of Hans Sachs. The program also included more modern authors, including Ibsen, Björnson, Strindberg, Hauptmann, Maeterlinck , Tolstoy and Gorky. During the Second World War, Anna Rubner worked as a director and actress at the Hans Schulze Studio in Berlin-Wilmersdorf .

Shortly after the end of the war, she resumed her cultural work in Eden. The East Zonal People's Education Office gave her the job of making people who had been artistically uprooted by the war fit for work again. From these interpreters and the former actors of the Edener Heimatbühne, Rubner formed a guest troupe, which from 1946 to 1947 roamed the villages and towns of the Eastern Zone and the GDR as the “Oranienburg Artists' Community”. From then on, Anna Rubner was artistic director of the Edener Heimatbühne until her death at the age of 84.

literature

• Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 95.

Web link

• Anna Rubner on eden-eg.de