Ludmilla Dietz
Ludmilla Dietz , née Ludmilla Grasl-Baumgartner , ( July 25, 1833 in Preßburg - June 15, 1896 in Vienna ) was an Austrian theater actress and singer ( soprano ).
Life
Dietz lost her parents at an early age and came to Graz to be cared for by a noble lady, from whom she, however, not yet 14 years old, ran away to go to the stage. She hurried to her hometown and was hired as a choir player at the theater. After a year she came to the Theater in der Josefstadt as a lover and from there to Graz as the first local singer. In 1854 she went to the German Theater in Pest, where she was an extremely valued member in soubrette-like roles.
In 1857 she joined the Brno City Theater Association and for 16 years developed all the assets that made her a unique stage force. There, her sharp-pointed lecture, as well as her effective elaboration of crude comic roles, came into their own so effectively that she was won over for the Komische Oper in 1873, from where she came to the Strampfertheater. From 1877 to 1879 she worked at the city theater, which she left with Heinrich Laube at the same time.
Then she was a member of several German theaters, and after a few years returned to Vienna to take up engagement at the Josefstädtertheater. Although she only worked for a short time at the Theater an der Wien and, last but not least, at the Carltheater, she spent her heyday at the Theater in der Josefstadt, where the fact, which is certainly rare in theater life, occurred that the comical age was the "star" of this stage has been.
Her down-to-earth humor, her coarse-boned, impulsive mood prompted the writers on this stage to write a bombshell role for this drastic actress in every farce. Her victorious comedy actually got through every time, and owes mainly to pieces such as Groß-Wien , Frau Sopherl vom Naschmarkt , Eine von der Burgmusik , Der last Kreuzer , Der Herr von Kemmelbach, etc., all of which saw a hundred performances and more your cooperation the great success.
Coarse, robust, brusque in her representations, indestructible in her strength and mood, she also had an amazing naturalness with which she presented her characters (exclusively from Viennese life). She was perhaps the most natural actress of her time in Vienna, always resolute, always full of motherhood, life and humor.
During a tour that she made through Bohemia, Galicia and Hungary in 1895, she was touched by a blow. Since then, she has been going downhill. She died in the general hospital in 1896.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Ludmilla Dietz . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 200 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Web links
- Uwe Harten : Dietz (nee Grasl-Baumgartner), Ludmilla. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
- Ludmilla Dietz at The Ibsen Stage Performance Database at the University of Oslo
Individual evidence
- ^ Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon, cf. also death register Alservorstadtkrankenhaus, tom. CL, fol. 54 ( facsimile )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dietz, Ludmilla |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grasl-Baumgartner, Ludmilla (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian theater actress and singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pressburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1896 |
| Place of death | Vienna |