Auguste Baison

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Auguste Baison by August Weger (1823-1892).

Auguste Baison , married Auguste Hofmann (born June 1, 1846 in Frankfurt am Main , † October 4, 1916 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was a German theater actress .

Life

Baison, daughter of Jean Baptist and Caroline Baison , was prepared for a theater career by her father. She first appeared on the stage at the German State Theater in Prague in 1858 .

After she had worked there for two years and had been introduced to the role of the “ young lover ”, she was committed to the Victoria Theater in Berlin in 1860 , which enabled her to acquire other roles until she joined the Association of the Carltheater Vienna in 1862 . Julie Radich trained her here. She stayed in Vienna for a year, accepted an engagement in Bremen in 1863, then one in Nuremberg in 1864, in Mainz in 1865 and at the Court Theater in Munich from 1866 to 1868 , where Karl Jenke took on her. From there she was invited to a longer guest performance, initially as "Louise" in Kabale und Liebe , at the St. Petersburg Court Theater, which gave her the title of "Imperial Russian Court Actress".

After returning to Germany, she appeared from then on only as a guest in Königsberg, Danzig (1869), Prague, Straubing (1870), Breslau (1871, as "Deborah" and as " Maria Stuart "), Mannheim, Cologne and Augsburg until she Having arrived in her hometown, she decided to take on a longer engagement in the tragedy subject there. On December 25, 1872, Auguste Baison celebrated her official stage farewell in Frankfurt as “Maria Stuart”.

She had stopped because her director Schweigert had fixed her too much on one subject that she did not fill artistically. She did not take on a new permanent engagement at another stage in order not to be separated from her husband, who was also acting. She only gave non-binding guest performances. She didn't like moving around, however. In March 1878 she made a guest appearance in Stettin, while her husband was employed again at the Municipal Theater in Frankfurt. Therefore, she asked the artistic director Otto Devrient , pointing out her strong ties to the city, to include her in the ensemble. After several more years of guest appearances, in which she was recognized in her brilliant roles "Maria Stuart", "Deborah", "Medea" and " Sappho " , which were especially developed in Frankfurt , she settled in Berlin around 1897/98, where she moved several times within the city before she settled in the Bavarian Quarter around 1906/1907 . Until 1912 she was still active as an occasional actress, dramatic teacher and reciter.

She was married to the actor Jean Hofmann , who was also born in Frankfurt am Main ; the marriage was later divorced. Her two daughters worked at the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Published by Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 42 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register StA Wilmersdorf, No. 1144/1916
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. With a cover picture . Paul List publishing house, Leipzig 1903, p. 42 f .
  3. ^ A b c Cooperative of German Stage Members , Berlin (ed.): German Stage Yearbook. Theater history year and address book . Founded in 1889. 29th year. FA Günther & Sohn, Berlin 1918, Totenschau, p. 152 .
  4. ^ A b c Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon. Biographical and bibliographical manual . 8/9 Delivery Hahn - Hurk. Ferd. V. Kleinmayr Verlag, Klagenfurt, Vienna August 1953, p. 822 f .
  5. ^ A b O. G. Flüggen: Biographical stage lexicon of the German theaters. From the beginning of German acting to the present . 1st year. A. Bruckmann's Verlag, Munich 1892, p. 11 (instead of “Karl Jenke” it says: “Jencke, Munich”).
  6. ^ A b c Letter from Auguste Baison to Otto Devrient dated March 13, 1878, Archive of the Academy of Arts , Berlin, Otto Devrient bundle 92.
  7. ↑ a b Historical Association for Straubing and the Surrounding Area (ed.): Annual report of the historical Association for Straubing and Surrounding Area. For the 44th to 51st year 1941–1948 . Oskar Beck, Straubing 1949, Theater News from 1860 to 1880, p. 80 ( freundeskreis-theater-sr.de [PDF; accessed on September 6, 2014]). Freundeskreis-theater-sr.de ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / freundeskreis-theater-sr.de
  8. ↑ Lilli Lehmann: My way . Hirzel, Leipzig 1913, DNB  361145144 , Danzig. Autumn 1868 to spring 1869 ( zeno.org [accessed on September 6, 2014] see letter "On my mother's birthday. Danzig, March 27, 1869", various new editions).
  9. ↑ Ludwig Sittenfeld: History of the Breslau Theater from 1841 to 1900 . Verlag von Preuß & Jünger, Breslau 1909, p. 156 ( archive.org ).
  10. ↑ See the editions of the New Theater Almanac for the relevant years. Last move: Cooperative of German Stage Members (Ed.): New Theater Almanach. Theater-historical year and address book. Founded in 1889 . Eighteenth year. FA Günther & Sohn, Berlin 1907, p. 648 .
  11. ↑ Various editions of the New Theater Almanac .
personal data
SURNAME Baison, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofmann, Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1916
Place of death Berlin-Wilmersdorf