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Hermione Körner (1900)
Otto Stoeckel (center), 1907, with actresses at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus: Marinanne Kwast, Antonia Ernau, Elisabeth Huch, Hermine Körner, Fanny Ritter and Eva Speyer
Hermine Körner and grandson Peter Götz
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Hermine Körner (born May 30, 1878 in Berlin ; † December 14, 1960 there ) was a German actress , director and theater director.

Life

Hermine Körner was the fifth child of the teacher and zoologist Wilhelm Stader (born February 1, 1840 in Elberfeld ) and Emilie Luyken (born June 15, 1846 in Altenkirchen (Westerwald) ; † February 6, 1926 there). In 1880 his father went on a lecture tour to the USA , from which he did not return; he died on February 28, 1888 in Reading . The widowed mother moved with the five children from Berlin to her brother's home in Altenkirchen (Westerwald), where Hermine Körner spent her childhood.

At the Wiesbaden Conservatory she studied from 1896 at Max Reger Piano. In Wiesbaden she discovered her passion for the theater, which she shared with her love, the Austrian officer and actor Ferdinand Franz Körner (born April 4, 1873 in Vienna ). She married Ferdinand Franz Körner on December 23, 1897. Through her father-in-law August Körner (born March 5, 1838 in Linz ), an influential Viennese banker, she was given the opportunity to audition at the General Manager of the Vienna Court Opera . Körner made his debut at the Vienna Burgtheater in 1898 and finally received an engagement at the Kaiser Jubilee Theater . From 1905 to 1909 Hermine Körner played at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus under Louise Dumont and her husband Gustav Lindemann , but in 1909 she went to the Hoftheater Dresden , where she broke her contract in 1915; Max Reinhardt brought her to the Deutsche Theater Berlin .

In Stuttgart and Hamburg she directed and was on stage herself, from 1919 to 1925 she was the artistic director and director at the Munich Schauspielhaus . In 1925 she went to Dresden as artistic director at the Albert Theater, which she directed until 1929.

Due to his friendship with Emmy Sonnemann , Körner was one of the guests at Sonnemann's wedding with Hermann Göring in 1935 . On this occasion, Körner was appointed Prussian state actress. However, she turned down the artistic directorship offered by the National Socialists in Munich and went to the Prussian State Theater in Berlin as an actress with Gustaf Gründgens . On recitation evenings, initially during the war when the theaters were closed, she primarily focused on the work of Johann Wolfgang Goethe , inspired by the desire to restore the unity of his poetry - the unity of language and spirit.

Körner is the mother of actress Anneliese Reppel and most recently lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . She was buried in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery in an honorary grave of the city of Berlin in field 027-139.

Awards

Hermione Körner in Macbeth postage stamp 1976

Hermine Körner received the Louise Dumont Topaz from Gustav Lindemann on January 8, 1956 and the Great Federal Cross of Merit on August 2, 1956 .

In November 1976 she was honored with a postage stamp from the Deutsche Bundespost as part of a series of special postage stamps entitled “Significant Women” and was lauded as follows: “Until her late years as the great old lady of the German theater - still a current event for some contemporaries - high marks Intelligence, annoying play and an unmistakable erotic fluid, the effect of your characters from the classical repertoire and the classical modern. "

The stamp, based on a design by Dorothea Fischer-Nosbisch , shows Hermine Körner in a tragic role she embodies; she appears on the 70-pfennig stamp as "Lady Macbeth".

Hermione grains ring

For her portrayal of Atossa in Aeschylus The Persians , Hermine Körner was presented with a signet ring with a Greek coin that had once been found on the battlefield of Marathon . Körner donated this ring as an award for that German actress "with the most serious aspirations". Körner himself determined Roma Bahn as the first porter during her lifetime .

Today the prize is awarded by the Berlin Academy of Arts , Performing Arts Department for the lifetime of the recipient.

Wearers of the Hermione Körner Ring

Hermine Körner Prize of the City of Kaufbeuren

The city of Kaufbeuren has been awarding the Hermine Körner Prize since 2006 as a category for the performing arts of its art and culture prize.

Hermine Körner began her artistic career in 1895 (as Hermine Stader) at the Kaufbeurer Stadttheater. Here she also met her future husband, the Austrian comedian Ferry Körner.

Laureate of the Hermine Körner Prize

  • Leo Hiemer (filmmaker, 2008)
  • Wolfgang Krebs (cabaret artist, 2011)
  • Thomas Garmatsch (theater pedagogue, 2019).

Filmography

literature

Web links

Commons : Hermine Körner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Grains, Hermione
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1960
Place of death Berlin