Auguste Gotze

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Auguste Götze 1898; Photo by Georg Brokesch

Auguste Götze , also Auguste Goetze (born February 24, 1840 in Weimar , † April 29, 1908 in Leipzig ) was a German actress, singer (alto), singing teacher and writer .

Life

Auguste Götze was born as the daughter of the singer and later singing professor Franz Götze (1814–1888) and the singer and actress Karoline Götze . Müller, born in Weimar. She received a very good literary and musical education and showed a talent for poetry even in childhood. When she was eight she wrote the play Esther . In the years 1853 to 1859 she already appeared as an actress and singer, before vocal complaints briefly limited her to the profession of actress. From 1861 to 1863 she performed successfully on stages in Weimar, Hamburg , Würzburg and other cities, before concentrating again on her career as a singer and making successful concert tours through Germany, the Netherlands, England and Switzerland. At that time was alto as "ingenious [...] interpreter of Schumann shear and Liszt'scher Songs" and was the Grand Duke of Saxony to Kammersängerin appointed. Franz Liszt wrote his play Lenore for Auguste Götze , which she first performed in Jena in November 1860.

In 1865 she moved to Dresden . Here, too, she appeared as a singer and in 1874 became a singing teacher at the Dresden Conservatory . A year later she founded a singing and opera school there. At the same time she began to deal with the theater again and in 1878 wrote her first drama Susanne Mountfort, which was later also successful as an opera . Over the next 20 years she wrote numerous dramas, mostly under the pseudonym “A. Weimar ”appeared. Her literary admirers included a. Franz von Dingelstedt , Heinrich Laube and Gustav zu Putlitz . When she moved to Leipzig in 1889, she also relocated her singing school to Leipzig, to which she continued to devote herself to her literary work.

Works

  • Esther, or love for the people (written 1848)
  • Susanne Mountfort (1878)
  • Magdalena. Play in four acts. Dresden 1880.
  • Just not a blue stocking. Mutze, Leipzig 1881. ( digitized version )
  • A diplomat. Comedy in four acts. Teubner, Dresden 1880.
  • A trip home. Drama in four acts. Teubner, Dresden 1879. ( digitized version )
  • High love. Play in four acts. Mutze, Leipzig 1884.
  • Countess Osmon (1884)
  • The white woman (1884)
  • Wera (Schwank, 1884)
  • Twice Christmas Eve. Dramatic fairy tale in eight pictures. Mutze, Leipzig 1886.
  • Raveneck Castle (1886)
  • Alpine storms. Drama in one act. Mutze, Leipzig 1886. ( digitized version )
  • Vittoria Accoramboni. Tragedy in five acts. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1890.
  • Under the spell of Heligoland. (1893)
  • Demetrius. Tragedy in five acts based on Schiller's design using scenes from Gustav Kühne's adaptation. Pierson, Dresden / Leipzig 1897.

Student (selection)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Auguste Gotze . In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 101.
  2. ↑ entry. In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 267 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Alan Walker: Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847. Cornell University Press, 1987, p. 503.
  4. ^ Henrik Cavling: Fra America . Gyldendal, Kjøbenhavn 1897, p. 318 , urn : nbn: no-nb_digibok_2009033103004 (Danish: "From America").
  5. ↑ Hedemarkens Amtstidende . Hamar February 24, 1882, p. 2 , col. 2 , urn : nbn: no-nb_digavis_hedemarkensamtstidende_null_null_18820224_36_16_1 .
personal data
SURNAME Idol, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goetze, Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, singer (alto), singing teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1908
Place of death Leipzig