Helene Fehdmer

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Helene Fehdmer 1899

Helene Fehdmer (born January 18, 1872 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † August 12, 1939 in Grainau , Upper Bavaria ) was a German actress.

Life

Honorary grave for Helene Fehdmer and Friedrich Kayssler at the Waldfriedhof Kleinmachnow

The daughter of the Königsberg painter George Fehdmer grew up in Berlin and Antwerp and originally wanted, like her four brothers, to work as a visual artist. She initially dealt with painting. Some wax sculptures created much later testify to her creative abilities.

Eventually Helene Fehdmer became interested in acting and took lessons in Cologne . After her debut as a stage actress in 1891 at the Kurtheater Wildbad, she came to Berlin the following year to continue her career at the Lessing Theater there. After a detour to the Berlin theater and engagements at the Residenztheater , where, apart from her work as a trilby, she was mainly used in Schwänken , she moved to Vienna in 1898 to fulfill an engagement at the theater in der Josefstadt . There she celebrated some successes with literary matinees.

After two years in Vienna and a guest tour to Russia , she returned to Berlin, appeared in French salon pieces at the Trianon Theater and, for the first time, in tragic roles at the New Theater . This was followed by commitments to the German Theater , again to the Lessing Theater, the theater in Königgrätzerstrasse and, since the First World War, also to the Volksbühne . Here you could see her in Berg Eyvind and his wife , Nach Damascus (after August Strindberg ) and Wallenstein's Death (after Friedrich Schiller ) at the side of her husband (since 1905), the actor Friedrich Kayßler . Since she left the Volksbühne (1923), Helene Fehdmer has mainly been touring in Germany and abroad. She then gave guest performances at Berlin's State Theater . Helene Fehdmer made her last appearance at the time of the 1936 Summer Olympics as Countess Bismarck in the play The Minister President by Wolfgang Goetz .

In the imperial capital, the East Prussian had made a name for herself as a character interpreter. Her best-known roles include the wife John in Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Ratten , Laura in Hermann Sudermann's The Butterfly Battle , the king's daughter Goneril in William Shakespeare's King Lear , Lyubow Andrejewna in Anton Chekhov's Der Kirschgarten and Klara Sang in Über Our Kraft . She celebrated one of her last great successes in early 1931 in Der Blaue Boll , a drama by Ernst Barlach .

Her excursions in front of the camera at the beginning of the sound film age remained largely meaningless. Her stepson was the actor Christian Kayßler . Her husband wrote the book Helene Fehdmer zum Gedächtnis in memory of his wife, who had died three years earlier , which was published in 1942 by Rütten & Loenig Verlag in Potsdam .

Filmography

literature

  • Hans KnudsenFehdmer, Helene, married Kayssler. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 46 ( digitized version ).
  • Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the Stage , Leipzig 1903. p. 249.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 389.
  • Wilhelm Kosch: German Theater Lexicon . Second volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960, p. 973. (Entry by Helene Kayßler)

Web links

Commons : Helene Fehdmer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Season Chronicle 1920 to 1930 ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksbuehne-berlin.de
  2. Biography at Christian-Morgenstern.de