Isa from Bernus

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Isa von Bernus (born January 21, 1898 in Berlin as Isolde Oberländer ; † May 12, 2001 at Donaumünster Castle , Donaumünster near Tapfheim ) was a German actress , reciter and muse .

Grave site Donauwörth municipal cemetery

Life

Family and education

Isa von Bernus was the second daughter of the Baden grand ducal chamber singer Alfred Oberländer (1850-1906) and his wife Melitta nee Worms. Her father died early. With the support of her uncle Rolf Oberländer, her father's brother, a so-called middle-class childhood was secured.

She attended elementary school in Berlin from 1904 . From 1908 she went to a grammar school in Berlin until she graduated from high school in 1916 . During the First World War , she worked as part of the war work of women as a social welfare worker for financially weak families in Berlin-Moabit . After the end of the war, she completed an apprenticeship as a “sister for social welfare” in the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus, an orphanage in Berlin. There she worked as a supervisor and physiotherapist before she turned to theater and literature.

Actress and reciter

In 1921 she began her stage career at the Stadttheater Kleve; there she received an annual contract as a beginner. In the same year she became a member of the German Stage Association . She took acting lessons from Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg. Her stage roles included the title roles in Iphigenie auf Tauris and Maria Stuart . In 1922 she began performing as a reciter, initially at events at the Kleve Adult Education Center. Isa went to Berlin in the spring of 1923. In April 1923 she took part in the Berlin premiere of the fairy tale play Der Treue Johannes by Karl Röttger . She also appeared in "Lyrische Spiele", a collection of short spoken pieces by Johannes Günther . In addition to her work as an actress, she was successful as a reciter in Berlin. In March 1924 she and her colleagues founded the "German Scene", an association of young Berlin actors. She was hired as a reciter for the Berlin Vox-Haus , and her recitations, a. a. with poetry by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller , was broadcast several times on Berlin radio. In 1926 she had an engagement at the New Playhouse of the Jade Cities . As an actress and reciter, she made guest appearances in Germany until 1930. In March 1930 she gave a recitation of German poetry at the invitation of the Sorbonne in Paris .

Marriage and muse

During a visit to her sister, the opera singer Anita Oberländer (* 1902), in 1929, at the age of 31, through a mutual friend, she met the writer Alexander von Bernus , who was 18 years her senior . The couple moved to Vienna together , where Isa briefly played theater. After their marriage in 1930, she withdrew from the stage and became her husband's muse. In 1933 their daughter Marina was born, who in 1957 married the entrepreneur and heir of T&N Telefonbau Normalzeit Peter Fuld. This marriage ended in divorce in 1959.

After the death of her husband Alexander von Bernus on March 6, 1965 at Donaumünster Castle, she sought to secure and maintain his work, the Soluna laboratory and the castle. The production of the Soluna remedies was taken over by the anthroposophical remedy company Wala , Isa von Bernus organized the distribution himself at Donaumünster Castle. In the 1990s, the laboratory went to a cosmetics manufacturer, and processes for a revision failed. Isa von Bernus donated the estate and the alchemical library of her husband to the Badische Landesbibliothek and thus enabled the scientific processing of Alexander von Bernus' work. She herself died honored at the age of 103 at Donaumünster Castle.

Works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Alexander von Bernus: Mein Wiener Winter 1930/31 , in: Otto Heuschele (Ed.): In Memoriam Alexander von Bernus , Heidelberg 1966, p. 72 ff.
  2. a b There was a time ... ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Soluna Laboratory, Alexander von Bernus Society eV  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bernus.de
  3. Magic hazel for the complexion , Wirtschaftswoche 47/1998
  4. Alexander von Bernus: Growing on miracles. Heidelberg Childhood and Youth , Heidelberg 1984, ISBN 978-3920431307 , p. 267