Annie Dirkens

Annie Dirkens (by Jan Vilímek , 1896)

Husband Wilhelm von Hammerstein-Equord (before 1916)

Annie Dirkens , actually: Marie Therese Drews , from July 14, 1898 married Anna Freiin von Hammerstein-Equord (born September 25, 1870 in Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia ; † November 11, 1942 in Vienna ) was a German-English operetta singer (soprano) .

Life

Annie Dirkens, daughter of a royal railway official and a native of Britain, received singing training at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin and in Dresden with Nina Falkenberg . Her first appearance was at the Viktoria Theater in Berlin, then at the Adolf Ernst Theater and at the Leipzig City Theater in 1893. On March 20, 1895, she appeared as Adele in the Fledermaus for the first time at the Theater an der Wien as part of a guest performance . She was also in the operetta The Opera Ball by Richard Heuberger seen. In 1899 she went to Vienna to the Theater in der Josefstadt . For a short time she was employed at the Carltheater , but went back to the Theater in der Josefstadt. She made numerous guest appearances as an opera diva in London, in June 1894 as a guest of the Coburg Ensemble .

During the First World War she worked as a voluntary nurse, surgery nurse and kitchen manager in the war hospitals in Lubaczów , Tarnow , Jaroslau , Kety and Bielitz , where she also appeared as a singer in the city theater for the benefit of the Red Cross . In the reserve hospital in Neu Sandec she was able to look after her husband Wilhelm Freiherrn von Hammerstein-Equord (1868–1915), kuk chamberlain , major in the reserve in kuk Uhlan regiment No. 11 , who was seriously injured in the northern theater of war . March 1915 died after a leg amputation.

During the time as a nurse by a caused by shying horses fall tied to the bed for months, she finished in 1918 her career and led than 60 percent Kriegsinvalidin near the Burgtheater a tobacco shop . If she lived with her husband at Alleegasse 47 (today: Argentinierstraße  47), she died as Anni Hammerstein, a tobacco shop assistant , at her last registered address, Gumpendorfer Straße  83 ( Adolph Lehmann ’s general apartment indicator , 1942). (See also: Oberranna Castle ).

Honors

Simmering fire hall - urn grave dedicated to honor by Annie Dirkens-Hammerstein

Anny Dirkens-Hammerstein was buried in an honorary grave (Department 1, Ring 3, Group 6, Number 169) in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall . 1955 in Vienna- Hietzing the Dirkensgasse named after her.

Web links

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 203, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Annie Dirkens at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• Entry on Annie Dirkens in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Boisits: Dirkens, Annie (own Marie Therese Drews) . In: musiklexikon.ac.at , May 6, 2001, accessed on January 15, 2018.
2. ^ News of the day. (...) Annie Dirkens - Red Cross Sister. In:  Neues 8-Uhr-Blatt , No. 96/1915 (Volume II), January 2, 1915, p. 2, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ Theater and Art. (...) Annie Dirkens. In:  Neues Wiener Abendblatt , No. 28/1915 (XLIX. Volume), January 28, 1915, p. 4, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ officers. In:  Loss list No. 422 , May 18, 1916, p. 3, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). .
5. ↑ Wire messages from the “Tages-Post”. (...) victims of war. In:  Tages-Post , No. 83/1915 (1st volume), April 1, 1915, p. 10, column 3 middle. (Online at ANNO ). .
6. ^ Heroic death of Baron Wilhelm von (on) Hammerstein. In:  Neues Wiener Journal , No. 7701/1915 (XXIIIth volume), April 2, 1915, p. 9 middle. (Online at ANNO ). .
7. ↑ On the death of Annie Dirkens. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt , No. 323/1942 (LXXVI. Volume), November 22, 1943, p. 5 middle. (Online at ANNO ). .
8. ^ Baroness Annie Dirkens-Hammerstein . In: Hedwig Abraham (Red.): Viennatouristguide.at , accessed on January 16, 2018.