Käthe Brandt

Käthe Brandt in 1900

Käthe Brandt ( March 19, 1884 in Berlin - January 12, 1902 ) was a German stage actress .

Life

Käthe Brandt was the daughter of the technical and artistic chief inspector of the Royal Drama in Berlin, Fritz Brandt . Although her father kept her off the stage in her childhood despite his profession, she was driven by an irresistible passion for the theater. Prepared for the stage career by Heinrich Oberländer , she made her debut in 1898 as "Turandot" in Düsseldorf, after daring her first theatrical attempt on April 17th of that year as "Jane Eyre" in Lowood's orphan at the Royal Court Stage in Berlin.

In 1899 she came to Graz (inaugural role "Julie"), in 1900 at the Hoftheater in Wiesbaden, where she also made her debut as "Julie", but after a year there she embarked for New York to continue her acting career at the Irwingplacetheater.

Her agile, slim figure, her warm-sounding organ, a play of signs that support her speech, as well as the ability to realistically express feelings, bring her just recognition. She played her roles with a surprising understanding that completely obscured her youth. In addition to "Julie", "Ophelie", "Louise", "Desdemona", "Gretchen" etc., the roles of sentimental lovers in modern pieces also brought her rich applause.

Already on January 12, 1902, she died in Maluk Hospital just before the wedding with Albert tear at a peritonitis . She was a great niece of Richard Wagner .

literature

Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 120, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Käthe Brandt death report in The New York Dramatic Mirror from January 18, 1902, accessed on December 22, 2014.

Remarks

↑ According to information from The New York Dramatic Mirror (see individual records ), she died at the age of 24, the year of birth would therefore be 1877 .

personal data
SURNAME	Brandt, Kathe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 1902

[A-2] Käthe Brandt death report in The New York Dramatic Mirror from January 18, 1902, accessed on December 22, 2014.

[1] According to information from The New York Dramatic Mirror (see individual records ), she died at the age of 24, the year of birth would therefore be 1877 .