Gertrud Eysoldt

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Gertrud Eysoldt, around 1888
Portrait of Gertrud Eysoldt as Salome by Lovis Corinth 1903
Portrait of Gertrud Eysoldt by her future husband Benno Berneis in 1910
Memorial plaque in the Marktgasse in Pirna
tomb

Gertrud Franziska Gabriele Eysoldt , also Gertrud Martersteig and Gertrud Berneis (born November 30, 1870 in Pirna , † January 5, 1955 in Ohlstadt , Upper Bavaria ) was a German actress and director .

Life and accomplishments

Gertrud Eysoldt, the daughter of the Pirna city councilor and representative of the German Progressive Party Friedrich Arthur Eysoldt (1832-1907) and his first wife Bertha Wilhelmine Richter (1846-1934), studied from 1888 to 1889 at the royal music school. She made her theater debut in 1890 at the Court Theater in Munich.

She was u. a. Ensemble member in Max Reinhardt's theaters , played at various theaters in Meiningen , Dresden , Munich , Riga , Stuttgart and Berlin . She played the roles of Salome , Lulu , Elektra and Penthesilea in works by Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Henrik Ibsen , August Strindberg and Frank Wedekind .

In the 1920s she also taught at the drama school of the German Theater - probably more than 2,000 students. From 1920 to 1922 she was director of the Kleiner Schauspielhaus Berlin-Charlottenburg. There, despite the ban on censorship, she pushed through the performance of Arthur Schnitzler's (1862–1931) Reigen , which is why she was sued in the “Reigen Trial” because the piece was considered immoral at the time. She had the reputation of being the “first feminist in German theater”.

She achieved fame through masterly played Vamproles, also in several movies, including most recently in Night Watch . In addition, she was friends with the most famous in Berlin psychiatrist, theater physician and psychotherapist Arthur Kronfeld , who at that time the Institute of Sexology of Magnus Hirschfeld worked. He was probably later encouraged to join the committee supporting the preparation of the great 5th International Congress for Individual Psychology, organized by Kronfeld in Berlin in 1930 , in which Alfred Adler also took part. In 1945 she was made an honorary member of the German Theater .

Her first marriage was to the actor and writer Max Martersteig . The later conductor and composer Leo Eysoldt emerged from the marriage in 1891 . In 1910, their second son, Peter Berneis, was born, who also worked as an actor and mainly worked as a screenwriter after the Second World War . Father was the painter Benno Berneis , whom Gertrud Eysoldt married in 1915.

Honors

Her friend, theater critic Wilhelm Ringelband , donated the Gertrud-Eysoldt-Ring , which is endowed with 10,000 euros , in memory of her . It has been awarded by the city of Bensheim together with the German Academy of Performing Arts since 1986 for excellent acting performances at a German-speaking theater . An annually changing jury decides who receives this award.

In the Jessen district of Pirna, a street is named after Gertrud Eysoldt. A plaque commemorates her on the house where she was born at Marktgasse 1.

Filmography

Theater (direction)

literature

Web links

Commons : Gertrud Eysoldt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ January 6, 1955 as the day of death is z. B. by IMDb, filmportal.de, Kay Less : The large personal lexicon of the film and rororo theater lexicon 2 specified. January 5, 1955, on the other hand, can be found at dtv Theaterlexikon and Ulrich Liebe (eds.): From Adorf to Ziemann. The Bibliography of Actor Biographies 1900-2000 . Her gravestone shows that she died on January 5th.
  2. ^ Digital Library - Munich Digitization Center. Retrieved March 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Eysoldt, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eysoldt, Gertrud Franziska Gabriele (full name); Martersteig, Gertrud; Berneis, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and director
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirna
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1955
Place of death Ohlstadt , Upper Bavaria