Bertha Bayer-Braun
Bertha Bayer-Braun (born August 19, 1847 in Karlsruhe as Bertha Dorothea Braun , † July 9, 1909 in Hamburg ) was a German theater actress .
Life
Encouraged by the performance of the Karlsruhe court theater, Bayer-Braun also decided to take up the acting profession and entrusted her training to the court actor Rudolf Lange . She dared her first stage attempt at the court theater in her hometown. She then took on engagement in Freiburg im Breisgau and on January 1, 1871, she joined the Weimar Court Theater Association. Then she went to the State Theater in Graz and Prague, at the Lobetheater in Breslau, before going to the newly opened Hoftheater Oldenburg for four years, where she performed "Iphigenie" when the house opened in September 1881. In 1882, following a call from Bernhard Pollini , she went to Hamburg. She stayed there for ten years and said goodbye on May 21, 1892 as "Elisabeth" in Maria Stuart , after which she joined the Association of the German People's Theater in Vienna, but in 1893 she returned to Hamburg. There she was most recently engaged at the city theater.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 65, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, first volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953, p. 94
Web links
- Bertha Bayer-Braun at The Ibsen Stage Performance Database at the University of Oslo
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register Hamburg 03a, 1909, Vol. 4, No. 1889. Different information on the date of birth in the literature
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bayer-Braun, Bertha |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Braun, Bertha Dorothea (maiden name); Bayer, Bertha (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1909 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |