Lina Fuhr

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Lina Fuhr , actually Karoline Fuhrhaus , also Lina Waldau (born July 28, 1828 in Kassel , † May 15, 1906 in Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

Lina Fuhr was born as Karoline Fuhrhaus, daughter of an electoral chamber councilor at the regional finance chamber in Kassel. As a child she already appeared in the role of Otto in Müllner's play The Guilt in Hanover , was later seen on many major stages in Europe and had her last engagement in Berlin. She made her debut at the Stralsund Theater in 1845 and then had engagements in Stettin and at the Court Theater in Stuttgart . Further stations were Dresden , Vienna and 1854 London , where she worked with Emil Devrient and Ludwig Dessoirguest and particularly liked in the role of Ophelia .

From 1849 to 1852 she had an engagement at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg , after which she moved to the Berlin Hofbühne, where she made her debut in the role of Gretchen . She gave her farewell performance on November 11, 1860 as Leonore in the Fiesco conspiracy at Genoa .

In 1860 she withdrew into private life. She married the ophthalmologist and secret medical adviser Dr. Adolf Ernst Waldau (1822–1895), who had his practice and apartment in the Königsmarckschen Palais at 36 Mauerstraße. The daughters Wilhelma and Lina emerged from the marriage. Gustav Gans zu Putlitz lived with his family on the same floor as the Waldau family.

In 1904 she published her memoirs under the title Von Sonne und Sorge. Memories from art and life . In it she also mentions the lively correspondence with Kaiser Wilhelm I , who was the godfather of her oldest child. A portrait of Lina Fuhr is in the National Gallery in Berlin.

Lina Fuhr died in Berlin in 1906 at the age of 77. She was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Schöneberg , where her husband had already found his final resting place eleven years earlier. Both graves have not been preserved.

literature

Web links

Commons : Lina Fuhr  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsches Bühnenjahrbuch 1907, p. 177
  2. ↑ Europeanea
  3. ↑ Europeana
  4. ↑ a b Walter Hettche et al., Theodor Fontane, works, writings and letters, 20 vols. In 4 sections, vol. 5/2, letters, registers and comments , Carl Hanser 1988, ISBN 978-3-446 -14909-0 , p. 191 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  5. ^ Eva Ziesche, Directory of the bequests and collections of the manuscript department of the Berlin State Library. Prussian Cultural Heritage , Vol. 8, Harrassowitz Verlag 2002, ISBN 978-3-447-04535-3 , p. 61
  6. ↑ Lita zu Putlitz , From the picture room of my life , Leipzig 1931, p. 14
  7. ↑ Brita Reimers, Lina Fuhr . Reimers claims that Fuhr visited the Rahel Varnhagens Salon in Berlin , which cannot be true for reasons of time. However, as a married woman, she lived in the same house in which Varnhagen had lived.
  8. ↑ Image index , the name of the husband and daughter is incorrectly given here as "Walden".
  9. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 757.
personal data
SURNAME Drove, Lina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuhrhaus, Karoline (real name); Waldau, Lina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1906
Place of death Berlin