Hermione Bland

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Hermione Bland

Hermine Bland , actually Hermine Steiner (born December 24, 1852 in Vienna , Austrian Empire , † November 19, 1919 ) was an Austrian actress who focused on the heroine and lover of tragedies.

Life

Hermione Bland

Bland initially trained with Gustav Conradi in Vienna, then in Schwerin at the court theater there - artistic directors Baron Alfred von Wolhaben and Bernays in England . Bland played at the theaters in Cologne , Schwerin (1868–1871), at the Leipzig City Theater (1871–1873), Lübeck , Stuttgart and Breslau as well as in Vienna at the former Vienna City Theater . She played at the Berlin National Theater and from 1875 until she left the stage in 1898 at the Court Theater in Munich . There she celebrated her greatest successes as a court actress in the dramatic female roles.

She played the youthful female lead in all separate performances for the Bavarian King Ludwig II , as she corresponded to the king's ideal of women. He also corresponded with her and made her valuable gifts such as jewelry and jewels.

Honors

  • In the Munich district of Menterschwaige (81545 Munich) there has been Hermine-Bland-Straße, named after her, since 1914 .

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 100, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Hermine Bland , in: Felix Philippi, Max Bernstein: Das Münchener Hof-Schauspiel . 15 portraits with text, Munich 1884, pages 15–18

Web links

Commons : Hermione Bland  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ottmar G. Flüggen: Biographisches Bühnen-Lexikon der Deutsche Theaters , page 28, Verlag BiblioBazaar, 2008, ISBN 0559855680 or ISBN 9780559855689 ( [1] )
  2. King Ludwig II and the women