Claire Liesenberg

Claire Liesenberg in 1900

Inscribed business card dated January 1, 1902

Claire Liesenberg (last bourgeois Klara Herdan ; born May 29, 1873 in Hamburg ; † May 25, 1930 in Vienna ) was an actress who worked mainly in Austria.

Life

Claire Liesenberg was born as Klara Berta Liesenberg in Hamburg and, according to her daughter's memoir, had a sister. It came straight from the stage in Brno to the Burgtheater .

From her marriage to Dr. Maurice Herdan was the descendant of Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer , who was born in 1901 . Claire Liesenberg's son-in-law Carl Zuckmayer described her death in detail in a letter to Annemarie Seidel dated March 27, 1930: Liesenberg had drunk herself to death, wishing to ruin her health and to be sent to a sanatorium at Zuckmayer's expense. She died on May 25, 1930 in the Lainzer hospital , in her extermination findings the cause of death is "cardiac muscle degeneration, pulmonary edema, poisoning?" Her body was autopsied and cremated on May 29, 1930 in the Simmering fire hall .

Web links

Commons : Claire Liesenberg - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Claire Liesenberg on ibsenstage.hf.uio.no

Individual evidence

↑ An entry in the handbook of the highest court and court of His k. and k. Apostolic Majesty for 1906 , p. 78, allows the assumption that "Claire" was a stage name and that the actress was actually called Klara Liesenberg, cf. the digitized .
↑ ^a ^b Renate Wagner: You are great daughters at home . Edition S, 1992, ISBN 978-3-704-60321-0 , p. 208 ( limited preview in Google book search)
^ Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel: You have to play . Edition S, 1994, ISBN 978-3-704-60448-4 , p. 63 ( limited preview in Google book search)
↑ Gunter Nickel (ed.), Carl Zuckmayer. Annemarie Seidel. Correspondence , Wallstein Verlag, ISBN 9783892446460 , pp. 53–56
↑ Vienna City and State Archives, Descriptive Office for the Dead, Journal Article 12826/1930 (Klara Herdan)

personal data
SURNAME	Liesenberg, Claire
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Liesenberg-Herdan, Claire; Liesenberg, Klara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH	May 29, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	May 25, 1930
Place of death	Vienna

[1] An entry in the handbook of the highest court and court of His k. and k. Apostolic Majesty for 1906 , p. 78, allows the assumption that "Claire" was a stage name and that the actress was actually called Klara Liesenberg, cf. the digitized .

[Wagner-2] Renate Wagner: You are great daughters at home . Edition S, 1992, ISBN 978-3-704-60321-0 , p. 208 ( limited preview in Google book search)

[Neumann-3] Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel: You have to play . Edition S, 1994, ISBN 978-3-704-60448-4 , p. 63 ( limited preview in Google book search)

[4] Gunter Nickel (ed.), Carl Zuckmayer. Annemarie Seidel. Correspondence , Wallstein Verlag, ISBN 9783892446460 , pp. 53–56

[5] Vienna City and State Archives, Descriptive Office for the Dead, Journal Article 12826/1930 (Klara Herdan)