Hermione Medelsky

Hermine Medelsky (born June 9, 1884 in Vienna ; † 1940 ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

The daughter of an ICGA gas cashier and a seamstress was the younger sister of the castle actress Lotte Medelsky . Medelsky studied with Julius Meixner at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.

As early as 1901 she received an offer to the German Theater in Berlin . However, she refused. Instead, she began as an apprentice at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna. She made her debut in Ludwig Anzengruber's popular piece “The Pastor of Kirchfeld” .

In 1903, however, she went to Berlin and played there alongside Else Lehmann and Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. In 1905, however, she was engaged by Angelo Neumann at the New German Theater in Prague . After her debut as a maid in Gerhart Hauptmann Elga , she stayed at the theater until 1932.

In Prague she mainly played pieces by Gerhart Hauptmann, Hermann Bahr , Arthur Schnitzler and Frank Wedekind in the Prague cycle of his pieces in 1919. After the death of Gisela Klein in 1919, to whom she was both personally and artistically close, she took over their repertoire. The Prague public held her in high regard and referred to her as the Medelsky .

She was the only German actress to receive the Czechoslovak State Prize in 1930 .

After her retirement in 1932, she lived alternately in Prague and Vienna.

literature

• Medelsky, Hermione . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).