Hedwig Raabe

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Hedwig Niemann-Raabe

Hedwig Raabe (born December 3, 1844 in Magdeburg , † April 20, 1905 in Berlin , married Hedwig Niemann-Raabe ) was a German actress .

Life

She entered the stage as a child (as Cilli in Donauweibchen , as Infanta in Don Karlos ). At the age of 14 she came to the Thaliatheater in Hamburg , where her uncle, the comedian Wilke, worked at the time, later to Stettin, where she soon won Franz Wallner for his theater in Berlin , and received in 1864 after temporary engagements in Mainz and Prague a permanent position at the German court theater in Saint Petersburg , from where she made guest tours to Germany every summer.

In 1868 she gave up her engagement and since then has only made guest appearances. In March 1871 she married the tenor and opera singer Albert Niemann and then went by the double name Hedwig Niemann-Raabe. Since 1883 she belonged to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.

Hedwig Niemann-Raabe died in Berlin in 1905 at the age of 60 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling of the cemetery carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939, her remains, as well as those of her husband, who died in 1917, were reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin.

rating

The artistic character of their mode of representation was a healthy, cheerful and beautiful realism; In her early years she has been appropriately called a “representative of backfishing in its ideal transfiguration”, while afterwards she achieved extraordinary things, especially in the female characters of the modern French repertoire. The critic Georg Brandes noted on the occasion of the Berlin premiere of Ibsen’s Nora in 1880:

“The Niemann-Raabe has more natural conditions to portray Nora's naive phase than any actress in the north. Despite her forty years of age, she not only has a gorgeous appearance and an infinitely expressive face, but also seems overloaded with electrical energy. Wherever it goes and stands, youth, life and lust for life shine and sparkle. She was irresistibly natural as long as she was a child. "

Trivia

Like every actress, Raabe had many admirers, including the young Friedrich Nietzsche , who wrote an enthusiastic letter to her in June 1866; but his enthusiasm evidently met with no approval. Wilhelm Weischedel writes about this: “Another time he raves about an actress from afar and sends her songs into the house that have been composed and composed especially for her; Of course, as far as we know, he will not receive an answer. "

literature

Web links

Commons : Hedwig Niemann-Raabe  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 307, 475.
  2. ^ Brandes, Berlin as the German capital. Memories from the years 1877-1883 (German by P. Urban-Halle), Berlin 1989, p. 377 f. (November 21, 1880).
  3. ↑ See works in three volumes , ed. v. Karl Schlechta , Munich 1954, vol. 3, p. 963 f. (No. 18).
  4. ↑ Cf. Weischedel, Nietzsche or Macht und Ohnmacht des Nihilismus , in: Die philosophische Hintertrepe , Munich 1975, p. 256.
personal data
SURNAME Raabe, Hedwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niemann-Raabe, Hedwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1905
Place of death Berlin