Charlotte Wolter
Elisabeth Charlotte Wolter, married Countess O'Sullivan-Wolter (born March 1, 1834 in Cologne , † June 14, 1897 in Hietzing / Vienna ), was a German actress . She was known for her self-designed costumes and her powerful mezzo-soprano voice (the "Wolter-Schrei").
Life
Charlotte Wolter was born as the daughter of the writer Heinrich Wolter and his wife Antonetta Wolter, b. Almstaedt, born in Hämergasse 10 in Cologne. Her professional career (after early ballet appearances and an acting training in Vienna) began in Pest (today part of Budapest ), then played in touring theaters and at the Carltheater in Vienna and in 1859 received an engagement at the newly built Victoriatheater in Berlin , where she worked until 1861 was active.
Her portrayal of Hermione in Shakespeare's Winter Tale was widely recognized and also resulted in a successful guest performance at the Vienna Hofburgtheater . In the meantime she had committed herself to three years at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg ; but after only two years she managed to find an amicable solution to the contract, and the artist was won over to the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1862, where she was celebrated as a tragic heroine in many roles.
Her repertoire included the title roles in Racine's Phèdre , Schiller's Maria Stuart , Grillparzer's Sappho and Medea, and Eugène Scribes Adrienne Lecouvreur , as well as the roles of Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's play , those of Countess Orsina in Lessing's Emilia Galotti and those of Messalina (in Adolf von Wilbrandt's now forgotten tragedy Arria and Messalina ), the Begum Somru Friedrich Halms , the Klara in Hebbel's Maria Magdalena and the Kriemhilde in his Nibelungen trilogy .
Charlotte Wolter was married to the Belgian diplomat Count Charles O'Sullivan de Grass (1837-1888).
In 1892 she gave Hermann Bahr an interview about the new style on the theater stages. This first appeared in the Deutsche Zeitung and subsequently in Bahr's Studies on the Critique of Modernism .
She was buried in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32 A, number 20), according to her wishes in the costume of Iphigenia from Goethe's play of the same name, her most successful role. In 1898, Woltergasse in Vienna-Hietzing was named after her.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, pp. 1147 ff., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Berta Niederle: Charlotte Wolter, Life, Becoming and Letters of the Great Tragedy, Paul Zolnay Verlag 1948.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Wolter, Charlotte . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 58th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1889, pp. 87–94 ( digitized version ).
- Alexander von Weilen : Wolter, Charlotte . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 167-170.
- Austrian Biographical Lexicon: O'Sullivan de Grass
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, births, 1834 volume 1, no. 415 (evidence of date of birth and first name).
- ↑ Obituary. September 14, 1888, accessed November 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Bahr, Hermann: The new style. (No longer available online.) November 20, 1892, archived from the original on November 6, 2016 ; accessed on November 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Digitized at the bottom. 1893, Retrieved November 6, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolter, Charlotte |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolter, Elisabeth Charlotte (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 1897 |
| Place of death | Vienna |