Luise Beck

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Luise Beck

Luise Beck , also Louise Beck , pseudonym Ludwig Becker (* 1789 in Mannheim , † February 3, 1857 in Stuttgart ) was a German writer and actress .

Life

Beck was a daughter from the second marriage of the actor Heinrich Beck (1760-1803) with the singer Josepha Scheefer († 1827). Her younger sister Auguste Beck became a singer like her mother.

Beck initially stayed on art trips with a Schütz family. In 1809 she met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . August Wilhelm Iffland , who was her godfather and long-time friend of her father, engaged her at the Berlin National Theater . After his death in 1814, Beck's situation in Berlin worsened . She went back to her hometown Mannheim and became a member of the theater there. Contemporaries she was considered "richer in spirit than in beauty", but at the theater as an "actress, who in higher tragic roles is particularly characterized by a meticulous rhythmic declamation."

Beck had been friends with the writer Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz since 1810 . In 1825 she wrote to him from Mannheim that she had fulfilled her childhood dream and that she had finally written her first plays after being persuaded by friends and her mother. The play Opfertreue premiered on July 5, 1825 in Mannheim. On September 27, 1825, also in Mannheim, the premiere of the romantic idyll Tomorrow certainly followed! . Further works were premiered outside Mannheim with the help of Gubitz. Beck signed her works, which were also printed, among others as Ludwig Becker and L. Beck .

In December 1825, on the advice of a doctor, Beck released her engagement at the Mannheim stage because her mother was in need of care. “I live a very gloomy, painful life,” she said in a letter to Gubitz at the time. Contact with him broke off a short time later, Beck's mother died in 1827. Gubitz mentions rumors that Beck had been seen in Austria and disappeared and possibly died a short time later. However, Beck did not die in Stuttgart until 1857.

Works

  • 1825: Opfertreue (drama in three acts) - as L. Beck
  • 1825: Tomorrow for sure! (romantic idyll in one act) - as Ludwig Becker
  • 1828: The castle in the Pyrenees (play) - as L. Becker
  • undated: The arrow

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 68
  • Beck, Luise . In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 18.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz: Experiences. From Memoirs and Records, Volume One . Verein Buchhandlung, Berlin, 1868, pp. 289–297.
  • Beck. Luise . In: Susanne Kord: A look behind the scenes. German-speaking playwrights in the 18th and 19th centuries . Stuttgart, Metzler 1992, ISBN 3-476-00835-5 , p. 332.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gubitz, p. 289.
  2. ^ Johann Samuelersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber et al. (Ed.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . 7th part. Gleditsch, Leipzig 1821, p. 289.
  3. ^ Letter of May 22, 1826. Cf. Gubitz, p. 296.
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beck, Louise; Becker, Ludwig (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1857
Place of death Stuttgart