Margarete Eckensberger
Margarete Eckensberger , née Friedmann (born May 27, 1899 in Berlin , † May 9, 1951 in Braunschweig ) was a German actress with Jewish ancestors who belonged to the ensemble of the Braunschweig State Theater .
Life
Eckensberger came as the daughter of the businessman Paul Friedmann and his Evangelical Lutheran wife Hedwig, née. Föhrenbacher in Berlin to the world. Her grandfather was Paul Friedmann, was a Berlin philanthropist who came from a Jewish family and was acquainted with Moses Mendelssohn . Due to this parentage, she was not considered a Jew under Jewish law, but was referred to as a so-called Schickse , in which only one grandparent was Jewish.
On August 19, 1918, Margarete came to the Braunschweiger Landestheater after graduating from drama school in Berlin and taking acting lessons from Max Reinhardt . She helped shape the development of the theater in Braunschweig until 1932, later referred to as the “genius era”. Her repertoire included sentimental roles such as Lessing's Emilia Galotti as well as original or sophisticated characters. She also played in the stage plays The Imagined Sick , Till Lausebums (Romantic Comedy ), The Holy Johanna (Drama) or in Dorothea Angermann (play by Gerhart Hauptmann ).
On December 15, 1927, she married Hans Eckensberger , a publisher in Braunschweig. He later claimed that the couple had to flee from the Gestapo during the Nazi era after Margarete had been released in July 1932 by the Brunswick Minister Dietrich Klagges because of her racial origin. According to Walz, it is more likely that she received no engagement due to the economic situation. They were in Leipzig until 1945. Then they returned to Braunschweig. In 1951 she died there of heart failure.
literature
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck: Eckensberger, Margarete, b. Friedmann. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 153 .
- Richard Moderhack: Brunsvicensia judaica. Memorial book for the Jewish fellow citizens of the city of Braunschweig, 1933–1945. (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke. Volume 35) Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Braunschweig 1966, OCLC 2427844 , p. 161.
Web links
- Friedrich Walz: Carl Hugo Hans Eckensberger - his way to becoming a license publisher. on friedrich-walz.de (PDF, p. 22.)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Friedrich Walz: Carl Hugo Hans Eckensberger - his way to the license publisher. on friedrich-walz.de (PDF, p. 22/23.)
- ^ A b Horst-Rüdiger Jarck: Eckensberger, Margarete, geb. Friedmann. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 153 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eckensberger, Margarete |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Friedmann, Margarete (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1951 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |