Constanze Dahn
Constanze Dahn , née Constanze Le Gaye (born June 12, 1814 in Kassel , † March 26, 1894 in Munich ) was a German actress of French Huguenot origin.
Life
Dahn was born as the youngest daughter of Kapellmeister A. (also: Charles) Le Gaye and his wife Antoinette, b. Schäffer, born. Both parents served as musicians at the royal Westphalian court of Jérôme Bonaparte in Kassel, where the daughter also received her first artistic lessons. In 1821, at the age of seven, she made her debut at the theater in Düsseldorf in the role of “Danube Woman” . Wilhelm von Schadow painted it there as a mignon .
Dahn then went to the Hamburg City Theater and was later brought to the Thalia Theater . There she was able to record her greatest success on June 29, 1831 in the role of " Gretchen ". Your congenial opponent was the actor Heinrich Marr . With this appearance, the 17-year-old was born under her maiden name “Mlle. Le Gaye “known almost overnight in the entire German-speaking area.
In 1831 she met the actor Friedrich Dahn and married him on April 15, 1833 in Hamburg. With him she had two sons, Felix (1834–1912) and Ludwig (1843–1898), as well as a daughter, Constanze (1846–1933), who worked under the pseudonym “C. Hirundo ”was active as a writer. Friedrich and Constanze Dahn's marriage turned out to be very unhappy and finally divorced in 1850.
In June 1833 Constanze Dahn made her first successful guest appearance at the royal court theater in Munich , where she was engaged on the spot. She remained a member of the ensemble there until the end of her life. She gave her official farewell performance on October 1, 1865 in the role of "Duchess of Parma" in Goethe's Egmont .
As a result, she withdrew into private life and died at the age of almost 80 on March 26, 1894 in Munich. In his eulogy, Ernst von Possart called it “the Duse of Munich”.
tomb
The tomb of Constanze Dahn is located on the old southern cemetery in Munich (wall right place at SP 21 cemetery 18) location . Her son Ludwig (1843–1898) was also buried in the grave.
Roles (selection)
- Donauweibchen - The Donauweibchen ( Ferdinand Kauer )
- Gretchen - Faust. A tragedy (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- Klärchen - Egmont (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- Louis - The Parisian good-for-nothing ( Carl Toepfer )
- Johanna - The Maid of Orléans ( Friedrich Schiller )
- Yelva - Yelva, the Russian orphan ( Eugène Scribe )
- Minna - Minna von Barnhelm ( Gotthold Ephraim Lessing )
- Fadette - The Cricket ( Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer )
- Privy Councilor - The Troublemaker ( Roderich Benedix )
- Duchess of Parma - Egmont (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
literature
- Gerhard A. Jahn: From Paris to Munich and to New York . In: Ralf Satori (Ed.): Nymphenspiegel. From the gardens, poetry, prose and history , Vol. 5 (2009), ISBN 978-3-86520-356-4 , pp. 69-79.
- Ludwig Eisenberg: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage of the 19th century . List, Leipzig 1903, p. 172.
- Rolf Grashey: The Dahn family and the Munich court theater (1833 - 1899) . Voss, Leipzig 1932.
- Peter Rummenhöller: Romanticism in Music. Analyzes, portraits, reflections . Dtv, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-423-04493-4 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dahn, Constanze |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Le Gaye, Constanze (maiden name); Le Gaye, Constance; Dahn, Konstanze |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress of French Huguenot origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1894 |
| Place of death | Munich |