Auguste Burgrave
Auguste Burggraf ( 1832 in Bamberg - October 20, 1868 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German theater actress .
Life
Burgrave, daughter of a born Freiin von Wildenstein and a senior Bavarian court official employed by Duke Wilhelm of Bavaria , received the necessary artistic training through the care of Crown Prince Maximilian of Bavaria, and after she had repeatedly tested her talent at social theaters, she entered for the first time in 1848 Time in Nuremberg publicly the stage. Then she got involved in Bamberg, from there to Innsbruck, from where she was committed to Graz, where after a brilliant debut she was employed for several years in the field of the first young lovers.
Here she saw the Queen of Hanover, enraptured by her performance, immediately prompting her commitment to the royal stage. However, various intrigues and cabals made her stay longer in Hanover and in 1853 she accepted an application to the city theater in Hamburg, where a wide range of artistic activities was opened up to her. She perfected herself through lessons with Adele Peroni-Glasbrenner and after a year she was the declared favorite of the Hamburgers. Nevertheless, she left the Hanseatic city in 1857 and appeared on July 5, 1858 in the title role of the sensational play "Fiammina" for the first time in front of Prague and achieved a great success through the realistic and effective elaboration of her role, as well as with her brilliant external means, which her as "Countess Orsina", "Monika" in the solstice festival , "Baroness" in Still Waters are deep and "Pompadour" stayed true. On August 4th she started her engagement as "Elisabeth" in Essex .
In 1864 she was attracted by a brilliant proposal to the Stadttheater in Frankfurt, where she was one of the adornments of the stage for four years. In 1868 she became a member of the Court and National Theater in Mannheim, but was only able to work there for a few months because she soon had to leave the stage because of illness and died on October 20, 1868 in Frankfurt.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, pp. 142 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Auguste Burggraf Picture in the Manskopf Collection of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burgrave, Auguste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bamberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1868 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |