Elly Bender
Elly Bender , née Elisabeth Böhncke , married Elisabeth von Bardeleben , ( September 5, 1863 in Memel - January 11, 1947 in Weimar ) was a German stage actress and opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
She was already enthusiastic about the theater at an early age and found an excellent friend and supporter in Heinrich Jantsch . She came to him in Gdansk from Amsterdam, where she had dared her first theatrical attempt at the Grand Theater. From Danzig she came to the Imperial Court Theater in St. Petersburg for three years, then to Berlin to the Wallnertheater and then to the Adolf Ernst Theater. From Berlin she was engaged for a year at the Carltheater in 1895 and then went to Milwaukee. In 1899 she returned from the USA to the Thalia Theater in Berlin and worked at the Metropoltheater from 1900 to 1901, where she became known as a couplet singer.
From 1902 to 1909 she only worked as an actress in Berlin. After her marriage to Curt von Bardeleben on February 12, 1907 , she soon gave up her career. Elly Bender spent her twilight years at the Marie-Seebach -Stift in Weimar.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 78, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1945/48 Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Members Berlin (Ed.) P. 46.
Web links
- Elly Bender at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bender, Elly |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Böhncke, Elisabeth (maiden name); Bardeleben, Elisabeth von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actress and singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Memel , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1947 |
| Place of death | Weimar |