Maria Pospischil

Maria Pospischil , born Maria Bondrich , bourgeois Maria von Hirschberg (born January 22, 1864 in Prague , Bohemia ; † May 28, 1943 in Tegernsee , German Empire ), was a Bohemian-German stage actress , writer and theater director with several appearances in German silent films of 1918.

Live and act

The daughter of a Prague manufacturer of ironwork, almost still a child, began her theater career as a member of a traveling troupe. At the age of 16 Maria Pospischil received her first permanent engagement, which led her to the Bohemian National Theater. At a young age she took up the subject of sentimental and tragic lover. Her “full-sounding organ” was praised above all, but her strongly accentuated Czech language stood in the way of a theater career in Germany, which was advised by Meiningen director and councilor Ludwig Chronegk , who was a guest in Prague . Pospischil then learned German and on August 4, 1885, made a convincing debut as the Maid of Orleans at the German-language theater in Prague.

A year later, the Bohemian artist dared the leap to the German Theater in Berlin. There she became well known to the German public, and so in 1890 she was called to the Burgtheater in Vienna. After three years she returned to the German capital, to the Berlin theater. In 1894 and 1895, Maria Pospischil made several guest tours through Germany, but returned to the Berlin theater in 1895. In 1897, the artist also traveled to Dresden for guest performances and performed at the court theater there. Finally, shortly before the turn of the century, the Hamburg City Theater brought the versatile artist to its home, where she stayed for many years and resided at Parkallee 31. In Hamburg, Maria Pospischil, now employed in the grateful role of the first heroine, was able to demonstrate the full range of her skills more than ever before: she was convincing there as a tragedy as well as in cultivated conversational pieces.

In 1908 Pospischil accepted a call to his old homeland to take over the management of the local theater in Aussig, where he promoted the theater as well as the opera. So she spread Richard Wagner's music in Bohemia and performed his Tannhäuser . In 1912 Maria Pospischil returned to Berlin again and performed at the local theater on Königgrätzer Straße. Meanwhile married to a German lieutenant colonel von Hirschberg, she took care of the household during the First World War , while her husband (died 1930) had moved in and did not return to life after the end of the war in 1918.

Maria Pospischil's choice of roles actually covered the entire spectrum of classical spoken theater: She was seen as Lady Macbeth , Iphigenia, Maria Stuart , the Maid of Orleans, Penthesilea, Sapho, Medea, Judith, Magda (in Sudermanns Heimat ) as Fedora and both as Kriemhild and Brunhild in a Nibelungen performance. In addition, she was also active as an author, Pospischil's “Explanations of Goethe's Faust, first and second part” have been handed down. Maria Pospischil-von Hirschberg ended her acting career at the end of the war in 1918 with several roles in unimportant silent films.

Filmography

• 1918: A sword is supposed to pierce your soul
• 1918: midnight
• 1918: The thorn path

literature

• Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 94.
• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 788 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• German Stage Yearbook 1938, hrgg. from the Cooperative of German Stage Members. P. 95.

Web links

• Maria PospischiL in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Maria Pospischil at filmportal.de
• Portrait of Maria Pospischil at museum-digital.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 788 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )