Lucie Matthias

Lucie Matthias , married Lucie Matthias-Tronnier ( 1878 in Hamburg - 1954 in Wunstorf ) was a German theater actress and teacher of language and recitation in Hanover .

Life

Lucie Matthias came from a family of artists, the grandfather comes from Königsberg and was ballet master at the Dresden Opera . He married the ballerina who danced in the same house. From this marriage of the dancers a daughter emerged who married the lyrical tenor Hermann Matthias, the son of a cloth merchant from Burg near Magdeburg, after the Swiss boarding school . The opera tenor appeared for a long time in Hamburg, where Lucie Matthias was born in 1878. After severe strokes of fate, the loss of a brother and the death of his father at the age of 36, the family withdrew to Frankfurt, where Lucie went to school. In 1897, at the age of 16, she began her stage career in Mainz . After an engagement at the Berlin Theater, she went to the Hoftheater in Kassel in 1900 and then appeared at the Residenztheater in Hanover in 1901.

"M. has a lot of theatrical blood and represents the subject of the naive in a sympathetic way. Warm intimacy in tone and healthy approaches to characterization are salient artistic properties of the same, "says Matthias in Ludwig Eisenberg's large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Preferably active in the modern play, “Clärchen” ( Sodom's end ), “Grille”, “Käthie” ( Alt-Heidelberg ), “Vittorino” ( Renaissance ) etc. were among her best roles.

Around 1920 she was a teacher of language and recitation in the opera school and head of the department for speech arts at the Hannover City Conservatory.

After her marriage in 1904 to Georg Tronnier , whom she met at the theater, and the birth of her daughter Mirjam, she gave acting and speaking lessons to young theater eleven in her own house and literary courses for society women. After the divorce in 1925, she made a name for herself in Hanover as a "speaking master", as a teacher for "breathing exercises, recitation and speeches".

On March 30, 1931, she was invited by the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society in Weimar and there recited “From the letters of Goethe's mother”. After a long suffering, she died at the age of 76 in 1954 in a hospital in Wunstorf . A dignifying obituary appeared in the Hannoversche Allgemeine on her death.

literature

• Karl-Peter Klein: life and work of the painter Georg Tronnier. The discovery of a mural and the consequences of curiosity. Self-published, Hameln 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045063-1 .
• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century , Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 656 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society: Mixed writings. Yearbook Volume 17, Weimar 1931, p. 291.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d e} Karl-Peter Klein: Life and work of the painter Georg Tronnier. The discovery of a mural and the consequences of curiosity. Self-published, Hameln 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045063-1 .
2. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Leipzig 1903, p. 656.
3. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Leipzig 1903, p. 656.
4. ^ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gesellschaft, Vermischte Schriften , Jahrbuch Volume 17, Weimar 1931, p. 291.
5. ^ HH: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, 1954.

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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