Clara Stich

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Auguste Crelinger with her daughters, lithograph after Franz Krüger
Clara Liedtcke, b. Stitch, used Hoppé

Clara Stich , used Hoppé , married Liedtcke (born January 24, 1820 in Berlin ; † October 1, 1862 there ), was a German actress and singer.

Life

Clara Stich was a child from the first marriage of the actress Auguste Crelinger to the court actor Wilhelm Heinrich Stich . Her older sister Bertha , like Clara Stich, was prepared for the profession of actress from an early age. The two girls had their first appearance at a concert; Clara Stich sang a duet from Norma with the singer Hähnel . King Friedrich Wilhelm III. supported the family by allowing the young girls to appear in the Königsstädtisches Theater . Clara Stich made her debut there on November 6, 1834 as Elise von Walberg ; her mother played the princess. After a few more appearances, the "keen-sighted monarch" ordered "the two Fraulein Stich to be won over to the royal stage and employed accordingly."

At the age of fourteen, on January 22nd, 1835, Clara Stich had her first appearance on the court stage as Käthchen von Heilbronn . In April of the same year Auguste Crelinger took her two daughters to Vienna for a guest performance at the Hofburg , which was very successful. After returning to Berlin, Clara Stich was hired as the first naive young lover at the court theater. Since she also showed a talent for singing, an operatic career was also considered. At that time Clara Stich was tutored by the choir director Elsler and was a member of the Sing-Akademie from 1838 , where she also appeared in solo parts. Carl Blum wrote the little opera Mary, Max and Michel for her . Clara Stich also celebrated triumphs in this Singspiel, but then turned away from singing and devoted herself entirely to spoken theater. She gave guest performances in Wroclaw , Danzig , Posen and Königsberg , among others . Among other things, she played Melitta in Franz Grillparzer's Sappho . The Stich sisters and their mother made their last joint tour to Hanover in 1841 .

On leave for a year from Berlin, Clara Stich accepted an engagement at the court theater in Schwerin in 1842 . In the following years she gradually developed in Berlin to become the rival of actress Charlotte von Hagn . Von Hagn and Clara Stich appeared on stage together in Anna von Österreich and in Das Urbild des Tartüffe . In 1846 Charlotte von Hagn married and withdrew from the stage; Clara Stich was now mostly entrusted with the tragic love roles that Hagn had previously played. She is said to have played a Gretchen , “as no public has ever seen it and will never see it again, not a sentimental doll; but a girl of flesh and blood, hearty and robust ”, a little Clärchen who convinced as a“ heroine in bourgeois clothes ”, and the model image of a queen in Don Carlos . Minna von Barnhelm and Emilia Galotti were other brilliant roles of Clara Stich during this time.

On September 24, 1848, Clara Stich married the divorced court actor Franz Hoppé , who brought three children into the marriage and died after less than a year of marriage. Shortly before the death of her husband, Clara Hoppé had given birth to a son. On October 6, 1849 she was back on stage, initially in the role of Desdemona . As the crowd's favorite, she was greeted with applause lasting several minutes.

In 1851 the actress fell ill and was replaced by Lina Fuhr . When Clara Hoppé returned to the stage, Fuhr had taken over almost all of her previous roles and Clara Hoppé now had roles to play such as Lady Milford in Kabale und Liebe , Adelheid von Walldorf in Götz von Berlichingen and Lady Macbeth. She did not seem born for such roles, but Wilhelm Grothe stated: "It is true that she did not draw such character roles al fresco, but the more perfectly they were reproduced by her." Apparently, however, the artist, who was still in poor health, was sometimes denied recognition : "The mistress had to empty the wormwood goblet that the spiritually blind people gave her, drop by drop," said Grothe after her death.

On September 17, 1860, Clara Hoppé married the court actor Theodor Liedtcke . Grothe indicated that even after this second marriage the actress's life was not easy: “To the honor of humanity, we want to assume that her opponents did not want to wound her to death”, can be read in his memorial sheet for the artist who died too early , and: "If she had not had a finely constructed artist's soul, many insults would have gone unnoticed for her, which became such a nail to her early coffin."

Clara Liedtcke tried to recover in Reichenhall during the theater vacation in 1862 and apparently returned healthy, but soon fell ill again. On September 6, 1862 she was Queen Elisabeth in Maria Stuart for the last time. A few weeks later she died of typhus . She was buried on October 4, 1862 in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . The preacher Sydow held the funeral . Her husband was also buried there forty years after her. Both graves have not been preserved.

Wilhelm Grothe compared the actress in his memoir with a female Correggio on the stage: "There was nothing glaring, nothing repulsive, no awkward nooks and crannies - a sacred virginity transfigured even the everyday, the eternal femininity kept even the demonic enclosed."

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Grothe, Clara Liedtcke. A memorial sheet to the artist who died prematurely , Berlin (Sandrock) undated (1862), p. 13
  2. ^ Wilhelm Grothe, Clara Liedtcke. A memorial sheet to the artist who died prematurely , Berlin (Sandrock) undated (1862), p. 18
  3. ^ Wilhelm Grothe, Clara Liedtcke. A memorial sheet to the artist who died prematurely , Berlin (Sandrock) undated (1862), p. 21
  4. ^ Wilhelm Grothe, Clara Liedtcke. A memorial sheet to the artist who died prematurely , Berlin (Sandrock) no year (1862), p. 26
  5. ^ Wilhelm Grothe, Clara Liedtcke. A memorial sheet to the artist who died prematurely , Berlin (Sandrock) undated (1862), p. 30
  6. ^ Wilhelm Grothe, Clara Liedtcke. A memorial sheet to the artist who died prematurely , Berlin (Sandrock) undated (1862), p. 31.
  7. ^ Wilhelm Grothe, Clara Liedtcke. A memorial sheet to the artist who died too early , Berlin (Sandrock) undated (1862), p. 32. Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon Berlin burial sites . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 233.
  8. ^ Wilhelm Grothe, Clara Liedtcke. A memorial sheet to the artist who died prematurely , Berlin (Sandrock) n.d. (1862), p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Stitch, Clara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoppé, Clara; Liedtcke, Clara; Stich-Hoppé, Clara; Hoppe, Clara; Liedke, Clara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1862
Place of death Berlin