Henriette Johanne Marie Müller

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Lemon Jette by Hansjörg Wagner (1986)

Henriette Johanne Marie Müller , better known as Zitronenjette (* July 18, 1841 in Dessau , † July 8, 1916 in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg original .

Life

Henriette Müller was born as the daughter of the unmarried Leopoldine Müller. Shortly after the birth, the mother moved with Henriette to Hamburg, where she married and had more children. Henriette Müller was only 1.32 meters tall and weighed just under 35 kilograms as a grown woman, lagging behind in her mental and physical development. After the death of her stepfather, she moved in with one of her younger sisters and lived with her in the so-called Gängeviertel not far from the Michel . For the livelihood of both, she sold Zitroon with the exclamation ! Zitroon! Lemons during the day in downtown Hamburg, sometimes even in Barmbek and Rothenburgsort . At night you could see them in the bars in St. Pauli . Henriette Müller became an alcoholic, was repeatedly picked up during the day while drunk by the police and in August 1894 was admitted to the Friedrichsberg insane asylum , where she lived until her death. However, since she was not insane, she was kept busy there with various kitchen chores. Her original grave site (grave no. H 16) in the Ohlsdorf cemetery has since been abandoned.

Well-known folk piece

Face of Lemon Jette

As early as 1900 - during her lifetime - Zitronenjette , a play named after her, was performed in the Ernst-Drucker-Theater on St. Pauli. Further edits followed.

Paul Möhring wrote his folk piece with music Zitronenjette in the 1920s . The role of Henriette Müller was originally written for the actor Ernst Budzinski . Later, the title role of the play, in which the street life of Hamburg in Müller's time is traced in a humorous way, was traditionally occupied by men. The portrayal of the Zitronenjette was also Henry Vahl's last acting success in the St. Pauli Theater and his last star role.

A record published as number 10 in the Hörzu disco documents the performance of the Hamburg St. Pauli Theater . Freddy Quinn set two lyrical texts by Paul Möhring to music for this - There is only one St. Pauli and Am Hafen, am Hafen , which were added to the classic songs of the piece and so far only appeared on this record. In addition to Henry Vahl , Gerda Gmelin as a laundress, Andreas von der Meden as a sailmaker and Joachim Wolff as a dock worker appear.

In 1952, a radio adaptation of the piece, which the NWDR Hamburg brought out as a dialect radio play, was created under the title Zitronenjette . Under the direction of Günter Jansen , Eri Neumann spoke the role of the lemon jette. Other speakers included Magda Bäumken , Ingeborg Walther , Walter Scherau , Günther Siegmund , Heini Kaufeld , Hilde Sicks , Heinz Lanker and Ludwig Meybert . The sound document is 41'50 minutes long and is preserved in the German Broadcasting Archive .

Further honors

Hamburg, Ludwig-Erhard-Straße / transition to Krayenkamp: Lemon jet frontal. Shiny left index finger
Lemon jet badge jmP1010316a.jpg
Memorial stone to the lemon
jette and bird jette in the women's garden
Zitronenjette (TH 1986)
“The life who suur as de lemons, sall sick dat remembering is worth it? Dien Schiksol wiest op all de Lüüd, for de dat Glück het gor keen Tiet. "
(In standard German: "Your life was as sour as lemons, should it be worth remembering yourself? Your fate points to all those people for whom happiness has no time")
Zitronenjette's left index finger on the memorial is rubbed bare, because touching it should bring good luck.
  • In addition to the water carrier Hummel, the lemon jette is one of the most famous historical Hamburg originals.
  • A lemon yellow rose was named after the lemon jet.
  • A wooden boat donated by BP in 1996 for environmental and water protection activities of the Fleetenkieker was baptized with the name Zitronenjette .
  • In the since 2001 existing garden of the women of the cemetery Ohlsdorf a memorial stone in the so-called was in her memory reminder spiral set.

literature

  • Rita Bake , Brita Reimers: City of Dead Women. Portraits of women and life pictures from the Hamburg Ohlsdorf cemetery. Dölling and Galliz, Hamburg 1997, pp. 201f.
  • Rudolf Koch: A Hamburg original: the "Lemon Jette". In: Vun düt un dat un allerwat ut Hamborg . Association of Hamburger eV Hamburg: Heuser, 2004, No. 4, pp. 12-13.

Web links

Commons : Zitronenjette  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Paul Möhring on the Zitronenjette in: Marilen Andrist: The St. Pauli Theater - 150 Years of the Volkstheater on Spielbudenplatz, Galgenberg-Verlag, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-925387-98-6
  2. ARD, radio play archive (original link no longer available), accessed on February 19, 2012
  3. Late honor for a woman who traded in lemons. Our "Jette" as plastic , evening paper of December 6, 1986 , accessed on December 27, 2015
  4. The goal is clear! Hamburg water in the boat


Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 55 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 50 ″  E