Auguste Otto-Wernthal

Auguste Otto-Wernthal , née Auguste Wernthal ( September 17, 1833 in Braunschweig - August 12, 1856 there ) was a German stage actress and opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

The all-popular soubrette Anna Grobecker caused the daughter of the composer and chamber musician Wernthal to perform at a lovers' theater, on which occasion she discovered her talent. She trained under the direction of her father and was engaged as a young singer (1849) at the Braunschweiger Hoftheater (debut: "Ännchen"). Since her talent for representation was also recognized, she was used with the same success in funeral, drama and comedy.

She had her first resounding success as “Charlotte Corday” in Wolfgang Robert Griepenkerl's “Die Girondisten”. The audience cheered her and the result was a multi-year contract.

In 1854 she married the editor-in-chief of the Deutsche Reichs-Zeitung Reinhard Otto (who was married to Karoline Thate from June 12, 1859 until his death in 1885). This connection was also of value for her artistic career, because his relationship with the theater brought her the most favorable requests for engagement.

She was called to Bremen, where she soon became the public's darling, whereupon she took part in major guest tours at the Hamburg City Theater and in the same year celebrated triumphs at the City Theater in Cologne.

On May 1, 1856, she signed a contract that took her to the Hannoversche Hoftheater. There she only made it to the debut roles, because she died in Braunschweig in August of the consequences of a premature birth .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 743, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Auguste Otto-Wernthal at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch: Theatergeschichtliches year and address book , Volume 9, A. Günther & Sohn, Berlin, 1898, p. 177

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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