Eleonore Benzinger-Wahlmann

Eleonore Wahlmann as Sappho (first from top left).

Eleonore Benzinger-Wahlmann (born Eleonore Wahlmann ; born April 11, 1843 in Klagenfurt , † July 18, 1900 in Tübingen ) was an Austrian child actress and stage actress .

Life

Benzinger-Wahlmann, the daughter of the actor Josef Wahlmann († January 24, 1879 in Hamburg) appeared early in children's roles in Augsburg, Bamberg, Bern etc. and, as he grew up, received dramatic lessons from Emil Devrient , who recognized her talent .

After staying with traveling troops, she found her first permanent engagement in Linz in 1862, then she worked as an actor in Amsterdam, Graz and at the Thaliatheater in Hamburg, until 1866 on September 7th as "Maria Stuart" in joined the association of the Stuttgarter Hofbühne. In September 1868 she celebrated the 20th anniversary of her work in Stuttgart.

In 1892 she married her colleague Ernst Benzinger, who was 22 years her junior .

On February 2, 1900, she occasionally appeared in a guest performance by Agnes Sorma for a colleague who was unable to attend in the role of "old Wittichen" for the last time.

A few days later, a serious mental illness, the germs of which she had been carrying for a long time, came to expression: the unfortunate woman was rescued from the floods of the Neckar after a suicide attempt and was first taken to the private insane asylum in Renneburg and later to the psychiatric clinic in Tübingen, where she was her death on July 18, 1900 released her from her incurable suffering.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Wahlmann, Eleonore . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 52nd part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1885, pp. 140–142 ( digitized version ).
• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 81 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).