Klara Ziegler

Klara Ziegler

Klara Ziegler , also Clara Ziegler , (born April 27, 1844 in Munich , † December 19, 1909 there ) was a German actress .

Grave of Klara Ziegler and her husband Adolf Christen in the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich (Neu Arkaden Platz 121 at Gräberfeld 38) - location

Life

Ziegler, the daughter of a whitewash owner , was to marry a respectable, wealthy man after the death of her father (1860) at the request of her mother. But she didn't want to and took acting lessons from the court actor Adolf Christen , a long-time friend of the family.

Klara Ziegler made her debut at the Stadttheater in Ulm and had her first role (under the pseudonym Herzfeld) in 1862 at the theater in Bamberg as the Maiden of Orleans , then went to the Munich Hofbühne and the Gärtnerplatztheater for the same role , where she had great success. She then accepted an engagement in Ulm as the “first heroine”, where she stayed until 1865 with a short break.

Later she went to the newly founded Munich Aktien-Volkstheater (from 1872 Königl. Theater am Gärtnerplatz ) in Munich, the direction of which her teacher Adolf Christen had taken over, and on November 4, 1865 inaugurated the theater as Isarnixe . She later accepted an engagement at the Alter Theater in Leipzig , but returned to Munich after a year, where she was engaged at the Hoftheater in 1868. In the years 1870 and 1871 she took guest roles at the Stadt-Theater and Thalia-Theater in Hamburg.

Klara Ziegler has appeared at almost all well-known theaters. In 1874 she left the court theater in Munich at her own request and only had guest roles after that. On August 11, 1876, she married her teacher Adolf Christen, 33 years her senior. His death in 1883 depressed her so much that she did not go on stage for two years.

Ziegler was famous for her speech technique and her expressive gestures and facial expressions. In addition to tragedies, she also shone in comedies. Her main roles were: Medea , Iphigenie , Maria Stuart , Isabella and Donna Diana. From 1888 she played at the Berlin Theater in Berlin . A serious illness put an end to her theater career and she died in Munich in 1909.

One year after her death, the Clara Ziegler Foundation was established and a theater museum was opened in her castle-like villa in Munich near the English Garden . The Ziegler Villa was destroyed during the bombing in 1944, but the museum was reopened in the Hofgarten in 1953 , which in 1979 became a state museum, today's German Theater Museum .

Her bust was displayed in the Hall of Fame in Munich in April 2000 . It was completed by the academic sculptor Toni Preis , from Munich.

tomb

Klara Ziegler is with her husband Adolf Christians buried in the old southern cemetery in Munich (New Arkadenplatz 121 at cemetery 38) location .

Roles (selection)

Klara Ziegler as Medea

• Jeanne d'Arc - The Maid of Orleans ( Friedrich Schiller )
• Medea - Medea ( Euripides )
• Iphigenie - Iphigenie on Tauris ( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe )
• Maria Stuart - Maria Stuart (Friedrich Schiller)
• Donna Diana - Donna Diana ( Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek after Agustin Moreto )
• Brunhild - The Nibelungs ( Friedrich Hebbel )
• Elisabeth - Count Essex ( Heinrich Laube )
• Countess Orsina - Emilia Galotti ( Gotthold Ephraim Lessing )
• Judith - Judith (Friedrich Hebbel)
• Sappho - Sappho ( Franz Grillparzer )
• Penthesilea - Penthesilea ( Heinrich von Kleist )
• Thusnelda - The Fencer of Ravenna ( Friedrich Halm )

Works

• Wrong suspicion . Ackermann publishing house, Munich 1897.
• To flirt. Comedy in one act . Reclam, Leipzig 1895.
• Fear of the mother-in-law. Stagger in an elevator . Reclam, Leipzig 1896 (based on M. Knauff)
• Mucki . Ackermann publishing house, Munich 1904.
• The tower keeper of St. Peter. Türmer's Christmas party. Two serious life pictures in one act each . Ackermann publishing house, Munich 1897.

student

• Philomene Hartl-Mitius

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, pp. 1161 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Claudia Balk u. a. (Ed.): Theatergöttinennen. Staged femininity; Clara Ziegler, Sarah Bernhardt , Eleonora Duse . Edition Stroemfeld, Basel 1994, ISBN 3-87877-485-0 .
• Hans G. Eschweiler: Klara Ziegler. A contribution to the history of theater in the 19th century . Dissertation, University of Rostock 1933.
• Johannes Mayerhofer: Clara Ziegler. Biographical sketch . Buchner Verlag, Bamberg 1887.
• Ziegler, Clara . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 463 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Klara Ziegler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Klara Ziegler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deutscher Bühnenalmanach , vol. 35 (p. 131) and vol. 36 (p. 131).
2. ↑ Mayr, Claudia and Martha Schad, Women in Bronze and Stone - Munich ( Memento of the original from October 23, 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. , Munich 2008, p. 30 f