Louise Dumont

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Louise Dumont
Dumont bust in the Hofgarten (Düsseldorf) . The bust was stolen in December 2012.

Louise Dumont , née Louise Maria Hubertine Heynen, married Dumont-Lindemann , (born February 22, 1862 in Cologne , † May 16, 1932 in Düsseldorf ) was a German actress and theater director .

Life

Louise Maria Hubertine Heynen was born on February 22, 1862, the second of eleven or twelve children in Cologne, near Neumarkt . Her parents were the merchant Christian Joseph Hubert Heynen (born 1837) and Maria Elisabeth Elise (born 1836 or 1837), née Dumont. She attended a secondary school for girls and then worked as a seamstress and saleswoman. Against her father's wishes, she took language and literature lessons at the Berlin National Theater.

Louise Dumont auditioned at the Residenztheater in Berlin in 1882 , where she received her first role. As a stage name she chose Dumont , her mother's maiden name. In 1888 she finally got an engagement at the Royal Court Theater in Stuttgart . Since then she has been on friendly terms with Queen Charlotte of Württemberg .

Nevertheless, Dumont left Stuttgart in 1898 and moved to the Deutsches Theater Berlin , where she celebrated her greatest successes, especially as the actress in Henrik Ibsen's plays . She used to socialize with Maximilian Harden and Walter Rathenau, among others . Dumont was socially committed to the central office she founded for women on stage in Germany.

In 1903 she met Gustav Lindemann . Together they planned to found the “Dramatic National Theater” in Weimar and commissioned Henry van de Velde to design the corresponding plans. However, the project failed due to the intrigue of the court there and the resistance of Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst .

When another attempt in Darmstadt could not be carried out, the third attempt finally succeeded in Düsseldorf , where Louise Dumont and Gustav Lindemann founded the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf GmbH on June 16, 1904 , as a direct competitor to the city theater. Not only the founders Louise Dumont and Gustav Lindemann were financially involved, but also ten members from respected families like the Poensgens or Luegs . The theater was opened on October 28, 1905, and a theater academy was attached to it. With Gustaf Gründgens , Peter Esser , Adolf Dell , Paul Henckels , Paul Kemp , Wolfgang Langhoff , Maria Alex and Heinrich Orthmayer, actors emerged from their school who influenced German theater life. The couple maintained contacts with important representatives of intellectual Germany : Paul Ernst , Herbert Eulenberg , Hans Franck (from 1914 dramaturge at the house, editor of the theater magazine), Gustav Landauer (1918 dramaturge at the house) and Berthold Viertel . The young August Macke came into contact with the Dumonts through his friend Wilhelm Schmidtbonn and, with great enthusiasm, designed stage decorations and costumes for a series of performances in 1906. They also maintained working relationships with Peter Behrens and the set designer Eduard Sturm . From 1909 to 1913 and from 1924 to 1932, Sturm shaped the stage design of the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus as artistic advisor. In 1911, commissioned by Louise Dumont, he planned a top-class natural theater in Benrath Palace Park with modern impulses from the stage design.

A sculpture by Ernst Barlach adorns the grave in the north cemetery in Düsseldorf. The closed eyes in the flat face unmistakably show the features of the artist colleague Käthe Kollwitz.
Gravestone Louise Dumont, Gustav Lindemann by Ernst Barlach

In 1907 Louise Dumont married Gustav Lindemann and lived in the recently completed Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 6 house designed by the architect Hermann vom Endt . In 1908, Dumont and Lindemann moved into Draengenburg House in Urdenbach, Am Alten Rhein 8. Dumont wrote essays and was co-editor of the theater magazine Masken . The theater had to close from 1922 to 1924 due to the economic crisis, during which time the marriage broke up. The academy remained as a college for stage arts .

Louise Dumont is considered to be the new Berin of the 20th century . She was not so much a mime-erotic fascination as a strong, determined and decisive seriousness in the work, which she understood as a service to the words of the poet. Her roles as women reflect her urge for freedom and self-determination.

Dumont died in Düsseldorf in 1932 at the age of 70 as a result of pneumonia and was buried in the Nordfriedhof there. The grave is decorated with a sculpture by Ernst Barlach . The closed eyes in the flat face unmistakably show the features of the artist colleague Käthe Kollwitz . Her husband donated the Louise Dumont Topaz in her memory .

In 1976, the Deutsche Bundespost dedicated a 50 Pfennig stamp to Louise Dumont as Hedda Gabler based on a design by Dorothea Fischer-Nosbisch .

The Louise-Dumont-Straße in Dusseldorf Pempelfort- is named after her.

Louise Dumont as Hedda Gabler: Postage stamp year 1976 of the Deutsche Bundespost

literature

Web links

Commons : Louise Dumont  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry van de Velde: National Dramatic Theater, PDF pp. 255–256. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ on duesseldorf.de/theatermuseum A journey through time with Düsseldorf stage artists , on Theatermuseum Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, accessed on February 21, 2015
  3. ↑ Places of Utopia: Eduard Sturm , website accessed on March 21, 2017
  4. ↑ In 1960 the city of Düsseldorf had a commemorative plaque made of white marble put up over the center window of Haus Drängenburg: "Louise Dumont and Gustav Lindemann lived and worked here from 1908–1922"
  5. ↑ Edgar Thiesbürger: Ernst Barlach, the tomb for Louise Dumont-Lindemann. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Dumont, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heynen, Louise Maria Hubertine (maiden name); Dumont-Lindemann, Louise (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1932
Place of death Dusseldorf