Auguste Crelinger

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Auguste Stich, portrait by Siegfried Detlev Bendixen
Auguste Crelinger
Auguste Crelinger engraving as Maria Stuart, lithograph by Josef Lanzedelli the Elder. Ä.
Auguste Crelinger, 1862.

Auguste Sophie Crelinger (widowed Stich , née Düring ; * October 7, 1795 in Berlin ; † April 11, 1865 there ) was a German actress .

Life

As a child, Auguste Düring gained his first stage experience with the Urania theater company . On the occasion of one of these appearances, she also made the acquaintance of Princess Charlotte von Hardenberg (former actress Langenthal). This was related to theater director August Wilhelm Iffland for Düring and after her successful debut on May 4, 1812 as Margarete ("The Hagestolzen") she was engaged and remained there until her last performance as a member of the royal court theater.

In 1817 Düring married the actor Wilhelm Heinrich Stich (1794–1824) and had two daughters with him: Bertha (1818–1876) and Clara (1820–1865), both of whom also went to the stage, as well as two sons, including Gustav (1822– 1848), who died of liver disease at the age of 26 in the East Indian city of Bombay .

Wilhelm Stich died under tragic circumstances. Gebhard Bernhard Carl Blücher von Wahlstatt (1799-1875), a grandson of the well-known general , was second lieutenant in the Guard Hussars and had a rendezvous with Auguste Stich on February 6, 1823, because he wanted to say goodbye to her before a long journey. In the stairwell he met her husband, whom he injured with his dagger after a brief argument. Blücher was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, which he served in the fortress of Danzig .

It is unclear whether the officer Blücher actually had a sexual relationship with Auguste Stich. When Stich was back on stage as "Thecla" on May 8 of the same year, she was already condemned by the audience and booed as an adulteress. To escape this, she and her husband traveled to Paris at the beginning of 1824 , where they u. a. François-Joseph Talma attended. According to statements by Ludwig Rellstab (emergency correction), the actor Wilhelm Heinrich Stich died of a delayed splenicitis .

In her second marriage, the widowed Auguste Stich married the railway and insurance entrepreneur Otto Crelinger in Berlin, whose parents - Johann Jacob Crelinger (1753–1837) and Henriette Wilhelmine Charlotte Catherina Crelinger (1774–1826), née. Philippsborn -, had great reservations about this marriage. Only after the death of Crelinger's mother in December 1826 could the couple become engaged on January 31, 1827; the marriage took place on April 23, 1827.

The connection with Crelinger enabled the actress to do educational trips, including to Paris and Saint Petersburg ; her house in Berlin became a social center.

A daughter from this marriage, Johanne Henriette Emilie Auguste Crelinger (1828–1900), married in 1851 the lawyer and later district administrator of the Frankenstein district in Silesia , Friedrich Adolf Alexander Groschke (1821–1871). In 1925, a now lost portrait of Auguste Crelinger as the Maiden of Orleans (1818) by Friedrich Georg Weitsch from the estate of the music teacher Clara Groschke came to the Märkisches Museum .

Around 1839/1840 Auguste von Bärndorf was a student of Auguste Crelinger.

After Auguste Crelinger celebrated her 50th anniversary at the Berlin Hofbühne in 1862, she withdrew into private life. She died in Berlin in 1865 at the age of 69 and was buried in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . The grave has not been preserved.

Quote

“The game was impartial, informal, without fear and presumption. Nothing learned, nothing borrowed, everything dear and light. "

- Prof. Samuel Heinrich Catel : Vossische Zeitung

"A beautiful figure, a sonorous organ, expressive facial expressions and a real artistic study were the most distinguished qualities of this almost perfect actress."

- Ludwig Rellstab : from a theater review on Auguste Crelinger

Roles (selection)

Student (selection)

Auguste von Bärndorf , Elise Bethge-Truhn

literature

Web links

Commons : Auguste Crelinger  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl August Varnhagen von Ense : Leaves from the Prussian history . Ed. V. Ludmilla Assing , Vol. 2, Leipzig 1868, pp. 291 f., 294 f., 300 ff. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Karl August Varnhagen von Ense: Leaves from the Prussian history . Ed. V. Ludmilla Assing, Vol. 2, Leipzig 1868, p. 353 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 121.
  4. ^ Karl August Varnhagen von Ense: Leaves from the Prussian history . Ed. V. Ludmilla Assing, Vol. 4, Leipzig 1869, p. 154 f. ( Digitized version ).
  5. ↑ See the entry in the lost art database ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ Hugo Thielen : Bärndorf (f) von Bauerhorst, Auguste von. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 35, online via Google books
  7. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 231.
personal data
SURNAME Crelinger, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stitch, Auguste; Düring, Auguste (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1865
Place of death Berlin