Lina Bach-Bendel

Lina Bach-Bendel , née Lina Bendel ( March 6, 1854 in Salzburg - 1920 ) was an Austrian theater actress and opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Bach, the daughter of an actor and a singer, entered the stage at an early age and repeatedly distinguished herself in Graz , where she grew up, in both children's comedies and children's roles (“Knabe Tell” etc.). At the age of 15 she got her first independent engagement at the Brno City Theater , where she worked successfully as a naive for six years. a. also appeared with great success in the then new works by Ludwig Anzengruber's pastor from Kirchfeld (Anna Birkmeyer), Der perjury farmer (Broni), Der G'wissenswurm (Horlacherlies).

Then Heinrich Hirsch pushed her into the soubrette compartment against her will , because he believed he recognized her talent for this area and took her to the comic opera in Vienna, where she made her debut in the Anton Langer posse The Last Viennese and at the first attempt in this new field the sympathy of the public gained. She was then committed to the Theater an der Wien , where she created the “Blitzmädel”.

She then went to the Karltheater, and here she was u. a. in the first performance of Hafermanns Töchter , in which Eva L'Arronge herself played the grain , the first “Emilie”. From Vienna she came to the Residenztheater in Dresden, where she became downright popular as a “seamstress”. Now she went on tour tours , mostly with Felix Schweighofer , which took her to the Stadttheater in Leipzig, Thaliatheater Hamburg, Wallnertheater Berlin, and as far as America. She made her debut there as “Lotte Griesmeyer” in seamstress , in which role she was able to win the favor of the American audience despite Marie Geistinger and Josefine Gallmeyer .

However, when director Rolf Prasch took over the Berlin theater, he suggested to the artist to try the transition to the older subject. Although she was well introduced to the new subject as "Holzweib" in spendthrift and "Schwertlein" in Faust , she only felt herself after a temporary engagement at the Thaliatheater in Berlin and at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna (inaugural troll "Aunt Paula" in Famous Woman , 29 September 1897) at home in the older roles area.

From 1899 to 1916 she worked at the Stadttheater in Hamburg, she died in 1920.

She was married to the actor Paul Bach .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 38 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Lina Bach-Bendel at The Ibsen Stage Performance Database at the University of Oslo
• Lina Bach-Bendel at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon