Marianne Austerlitz

Marianne Austerlitz (born July 11, 1849 in Vienna , Austrian Empire , † probably in August 1942 in Reichenberg , German Empire ) was an Austrian stage actress .

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Marianne Austerlitz received her artistic training from Julius Findeisen and was brought to the Hofburgtheater in her hometown Vienna by Heinrich Laube as a nine-year-old child actress . She remained connected to this important venue for eight years. As a young adult, Austerlitz began to wander and took on numerous engagements at Austrian provincial theaters such as Reichenberg, Saaz and Laibach. Theaters in the German Empire were added later, for example at the beginning of the 20th century in Mainz, where Marianne Austerlitz worked at the city theater for two years, and then in Regensburg. Here you could see them for a total of three seasons. Then she went on tour with the Wiesbaden Operetta Ensemble.

Immediately afterwards, in 1906, the artist again accepted a call to the Reichenberg City Theater, where she had already performed in 1865 and 1868. She remained connected to this stage as well as to this place for the rest of her life. The artist celebrated her greatest successes in the subject of comical olds, in comedy, folk plays as well as operettas. In April 1928 Marianne Austerlitz celebrated her 70th stage anniversary with her participation in the operetta In der Johannisnacht (role: Helene's grandmother) by Robert and Jean Gilbert . In 1938, at an advanced age, the Jewish artist was isolated from the annexation of her homeland for 32 years. On August 7, 1942, the old woman was transferred to the municipal care home as a care case. There, the trail of the 93-year-old disappears, she probably died a little later.

literature

• Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 121.

Web link

• biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hagemann, however, mentions the year 1857, according to which she would have been eight years old