Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg

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Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg at the Meiningen Court Theater , 1890
Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg with Karl Weiser , 1889, drawn by CW Allers

Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg (born August 23, 1854 in Darmstadt as Auguste Grevenberg , † December 14, 1945 in Weimar ) was a German actress .

Live and act

The daughter of opera singer and theater director Peter Grevenberg and the opera singer Minna Grevenberg (1825–1898) should actually be kept away from the theater, they do not even allow her to appear in children's roles and even send her to a monastery to be educated. Nevertheless, she absolutely wanted to become an actress and went to Ludwig Chronegk , who was currently visiting with his Meiningers near Berlin to be examined by him. She then received her training from the stage and opera director Carl Tetzlaff in Berlin . At the age of 16 Auguste Grevenberg began her first engagement at the Meininger Hoftheater under Ludwig Chronegk. There she made her debut in 1878 as "Franziska" in Minna von Barnhelm . Further engagements took her to the Stadttheater in Bremen and to the Wiesbaden and Karlsruhe court theaters . With the Meininger stage she went on guest tours (1888–1890), which took her to Berlin and Russia .

At a young age, the somewhat chubby and staid-looking Darmstadt woman was preferred in the field of salon lady and as a youthful character actress. The artist celebrated early successes mainly in Ibsen pieces, but also as Käthchen von Heilbronn and as Maria in Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt . Her acting brought her a number of awards, including the Knight's Cross for Art and Science from Coburg-Gotha and Sachsen-Meiningen as well as the great Golden Merit Medal for Art and Science from Sachsen-Weimar.

As a result of his marriage to the theater director Aloys Prasch , Auguste Grevenberg took his name and called himself Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg from then on. After several years of guest performance, she followed her husband to the capital of the Reich in 1895 and joined the Berlin theater which he directed . Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg continued to favor the touring theater in the future, but also took on one or the other permanent engagement, for example (before the First World War) in Munich (at the Kammerspiele ) or, after the war, in Berlin ( Max Reinhardts German Theater ). Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, she was now almost 85 years old and a member of the ensemble of Berlin's Schiller Theater .

Immediately after the end of the First World War, the acting veteran was also drawn to the camera. Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg took on a number of medium-sized mother and grandmother roles in several silent films. Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, she returned to the cinema again after ten years of abstinence from the screen.

Most recently Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg lived in the Marie-Seebach-Stift artists' home in Weimar, where she died six months after the end of the war.

The artist's brother was Julius Grevenberg , actor and theater director. Her son Rolf Prasch was also a theater director, director and actor.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, pp. 791 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Specialized lexicon for members of the German stage. Vol. 1, 1906, ZDB -ID 973283-4 , p. 101.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1325.

Web links

Commons : Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Specialized lexicon of the German stage members. Vol. 1, 1906, p. 101.
  2. ^ German stage yearbook. Vol. 56, 1945/1948, ISSN  0070-4431 , p. 39.
personal data
SURNAME Prasch-Grevenberg, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grevenberg, Auguste (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 23 August 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1945
Place of death Weimar