Lotte Mende

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Lotte Mende , actually Johanna Dorothea Louise Müller , (* October 12, 1834 in Hamburg ; † December 5, 1891 ibid) was a German actress who became famous for her performance in Low German roles.

Life

As early as 1849 Mende auditioned for the actress Lina Höfer at the Thalia Theater ; but this couldn't help her any further. In October of the following year Mende came to Heinrich Warneke and his traveling theater troupe at the Verden City Theater , where he made his successful debut on October 18, 1850. From there, she moved to the theaters of Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ), Bonn , Aachen , Cologne and Düsseldorf, each with a short stay . In 1864 she brought Carl Schultze to Hamburg for his theater and she stayed there until 1874 under contract. After a letter from Carl Schultze to Adolph Kohut , Mende took on the first name “Lotte” after her success with the role of the same name in the play Stadtminschen un Buurenlüüd .

In 1872 Mende married her colleague Louis Mende († 1881) in Hamburg . In 1874 she went to the Königsstadt Theater in Berlin . When she shone in a dialect play at the Woltersdorff Theater (Berlin) during a guest appearance the following year , she had found her special role. This success led her to no longer be contractually bound to any ensemble, but only to appear as a guest.

Lotte Mende as Aunt Therese and Heinrich Kinder as Gaedchen's policeman in Stindes Hamburg's Leiden
Lotte Mende in the Carl-Schultze-Theater , 1886

Mende died eight weeks after her 57th birthday on December 5, 1891 in Hamburg and found her final resting place next to her husband. With her art she has contributed a lot to making the Low German Hamburg plays by Julius Stinde ( Hamburger Leiden , Aunt Lotte , A Hamburg Cook, etc.) known throughout the German-speaking area. It is very likely that some of her character traits went into Stinde's literary character Wilhelmine Buchholz . After the grave site was abandoned, the Women's Garden Association had the gravestone moved to the women's garden at Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Roles (selection)

  • Mrs. Snut - Hanne Nüte and de lütte Pudel (Albert P. Krüger)
  • Auguste Basselmann - Hamburger Pills
  • Barbara - My Hamburg ad E. ( Auguste Zinck )
  • Frau Wichert - Every pot finds its lid (Auguste Zinck)
  • Therese Grünstein - Hamburger Leiden ( Julius Stinde )
  • Mrs. Klähn - De lütt Heckenros ( Auguste Danne )
  • Lotte - Aunt Lotte (Julius Stinde)
  • Farmer's wife - Stadtminschen un Buurenlüüd (Georg N. Bärmann)
  • Cook - A Hamburg cook (Julius Stinde)

Quotes

"The most excellent of all comrades-in-arms for the honor of our language and our tribe."

- Klaus Groth

"An artist (sic!) By the grace of God, as there is no other in Germany."

- Johann Meyer

“Whether Lotte Mende, as a coarse farmer's wife, makes rude jokes, whether she portrays a sedate Hamburg woman with the delicacy of a Frieb-Blumauer , she is always characterized by the basic trait of an honest characterization that is never concerned about mere effect. And we see this extraordinary, universally recognized talent moving from city to city in an unsteady life, depending on the favor and disadvantage of the weather and the seasons, we see it dependent on an audience that wants to be conquered again and again with each new guest performance ! "

- Fritz Mauthner

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century . List, Leipzig 1903, pp. 667-668.
  • Karl Theodor Gaedertz : The Low German drama. In: Ders .: The Low German Comedy in the 19th Century. (The Low German Drama; 2). 2nd Edition. Buske Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-87118-855-7 , pp. 214-215 (reprint of the Hamburg 1894 edition).
  • Ulrich Goerdten: Lotte Mende and Julius Stinde. On the 100th anniversary of the death of the actress and the 150th birthday of the author. In: Quickborn. 81 (1991), pp. 284-305.

Web links

Commons : Lotte Mende  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolph Kohut: The largest and most famous German soubrettes of the 19th century . Bagel-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1890, pp. 184-190.
personal data
SURNAME Mende, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Johanna Dorothea Louise (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1891
Place of death Hamburg