Mathilde Ahrends
Mathilde Margarete Ahrends , née Brandstrupp , also Ahrens ( 1805 or 1811 in Braunschweig - 1877 ) was a German theater actress .
Life
Mathilde Ahrends took up her stage career in 1827 after a short period of preparation, against the resistance of her father. With the support of the writer and theater director Klingemann , she entered the stage for the first time in Magdeburg as “Zuleima” in “Duty to Duty” . She had great success and just a year later she was given the satisfaction of being able to give a guest performance at the court theater of her native city to great applause. She remained engaged in Braunschweig from 1828 to 1833, was won over to Bremen from 1833 to 1834 and from 1834 to 1845 for the court theater in Kassel , where she went after a few years, which she spent on guest performances (1846 to 1851) and in Koburg (1852 to 1856), Returned in 1857 and where she stayed until 1860. At the beginning of the 1860s she appeared in some large German cities, but did not take on a permanent engagement and withdrew completely from the theater after the death of her husband, the well-known portrait painter Heinrich Ahrends . She stayed in Kassel, but never appeared again there or on any other stage.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 17 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Mathilde Ahrends in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Year of birth and death in the inventory catalog of paintings from the 19th century, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ahrends, Mathilde |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ahrends, Mathilde Margarete (full name); Brandstrupp, Mathilde (maiden name); Ahrens, Mathilde |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1805 or 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1877 |