Margarete Hauptmann

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Portrait of Margarete Marschalk from 1900: Lovis Corinth : The violin player

Margarete Hauptmann , b. Marschalk (born January 7, 1875 , † January 17, 1957 in Schäftlarn , district of Ebenhausen ) was a German actress committed to peace politics. She was the second wife of Gerhart Hauptmann and the younger sister of the composer Max Marschalk .

Life

First trained as a violinist with Joseph Joachim , from 1894 she worked as an actress with Otto Brahm at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. In 1895 she moved to the Lobe Theater in Breslau. In 1901 she and Gerhart Hauptmann moved into the Wiesenstein house in Agnetendorf in Lower Silesia . The year before, she had given birth to their son Benvenuto (1900–1965) in Hain in the Giant Mountains. A second son, Gerhart Erasmus, died shortly after birth in 1910.

On September 18, 1904, she married Hauptmann after he was born by his first wife Marie. Thienemann (1860-1914) had been divorced. Due to his love affair with the actress Ida Orloff , the new marriage was also temporarily in crisis.

As the hostess on the meadow stone, Margarete Hauptmann welcomed visitors such as the poet Oskar Loerke , who played with her as a pianist; notes and gifts were exchanged. Occasionally she also appeared in public as a violinist, for example in February 1918 at a charity concert in Hamburg. In 1931 she was one - together with Anita Augspurg , Gertrud Baumer , Vicki Baum , Helene Böhlau , Katia Mann and Ina Seidel - a founding member of the of Constanze Hallgarten launched German group of the Ligue Internationale des Mères et des Educatrices pour la Paix (World Peace Federation of Mothers and teachers). After Hauptmann's death and her expulsion from Silesia in 1946, she moved to Ebenhausen in Upper Bavaria; She died in the local sanatorium in 1957. Her urn was buried on June 6, 1983 in her husband's grave in Kloster auf Hiddensee .

literature

  • Rudolf Adolph: Treasure digs. Books - letters - encounters. Glock & Lutz, Nuremberg 1959
  • Gerhart and Margarete Hauptmann / Oskar Loerke: Correspondence. Edited by Peter Sprengel in conjunction with students at the Free University of Berlin. Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89528-552-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hiltrud Häntzschel : Women's Peace Movement , in Historisches Lexikon Bayerns, May 28, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Captain, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marschalk (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German peace activist and actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1875
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1957
Place of death Schäftlarn , district of Ebenhausen