Marianne Wulf

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Portrait of the actress Marianne Wulf. From " Sport and Salon ". July 26, 1900, p. 7.

Marianne Wulf (born May 6, 1878 in Brunn am Gebirge , Lower Austria , then Austria-Hungary ; † August 27, 1944 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

Origin and education

Marianne Wulf was the daughter of Wilhelm Jutmann (born September 1, 1842 in Graz ; † September 10, 1902 in Vienna) and his wife Maximiliane Jutmann (née Wolfbauer, born April 4, 1857 in Vienna; † January 14, 1943 in Vienna ) born in.

Wulf wanted to become an actress even as a child. She received her acting training as a private student with Bernhard Baumeister .

Theater career

In October 1896 she made her debut at the City Theater Preßburg as Klärchen in Egmont . In November 1896 she appeared there as Marie in the play Der Müller und seine Kind by Ernst Raupach . In January 1897 she moved from Pressburg to the Association of the Düsseldorf City Theater, where she made her debut as Katharina in Heinrich V , but only stayed a few months.

From April 1897 she was engaged at the Lessing Theater in Berlin , where she made her debut as Gretchen , emphasizing her "intimate sensation, natural representation and engaging stage appearance". In September 1897 she appeared at the Berlin Goethe Theater as Hero in Grillparzer's Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen and as Oberon . In early 1898 she played Perdita in Shakespeare's late work Das Wintermärchen at the Lessing Theater in Berlin . From 1899 to 1904 an engagement at the Schillertheater followed . In the summer of 1900, Wulf appeared as part of an “ensemble guest performance” by the “Berliner Secessions-Bühne” in the theater in der Josefstadt and, together with her mother, spent a few days of vacation in Gars am Kamp in June 1900 and further vacation days in Bad Ischl in August 1900 .

Ludwig Eisenberg wrote in his Great Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in XIX. Century about Marianne Wulf: "Her playing is consistently true to life and she always delights with the simplicity of her sympathetic tone"; Furthermore, he found in her a "strong talent" and a "certain touching tenderness and a lot of originality", which help her theater characters "to have a deep effect".

Wulf's early roles also included Julia , Porzia , Eboli , Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing , Claire in Der Hüttenbesitzer by Georges Ohnet , Agnes in Brand by Henrik Ibsen and roles in plays by Ludwig Anzengruber (Anna Birkmaier in Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld , Vroni in The Perjurer ).

From 1904 to 1907 Wulf was engaged at the Deutsches Theater in Prague , where she played numerous roles in the classical and then modern theater repertoire. She was used there in the roles of "heroine" and " saloon lady " in tragedies, dramas, but also frequently in comedies and social comedies. Her inaugural roles were Hero and Monna Vanna , for which there were criticisms in the contemporary press. In November 1904 she played Hofmannsthal's Elektra there. Wulf's other Prague roles included Kriemhild , Agnes Sorel , Leonore , Raina , Beline , Adelheid von Walldorf , Helene and the title role in La Gioconda (by D'Annunzio ). She also appeared in pieces by Schnitzler , Bahr , Sudermann and Sardou .

During her time in Prague, Wulff also gave guest performances at the Royal German State Theater . a. in the 1905/06 season as Martha Bernick in pillars of society and Lady Ines Sparkler in Klein Dorrit (Schönthan, after Dickens). In December 1906 she appeared there as Hero (Grillparzer). In Prague, Wulf was a founding member and board member of the “Club of German Women Artists” (founded in 1906). In February 1907 she was a guest at the Deutsches Theater Pilsen as Hero.

From 1907 to 1914 Wulf was engaged at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt / Main , then in the 1915/16 season at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz in Berlin.

After that, Wulf lived in Vienna, where she settled and continued to perform from there. In January 1918 she appeared as Iphigenie at the Berndorf City Theater . In 1920 she was engaged at the cabaret “Chat noir” and at the Renaissance stage in Vienna . After 1921, Wulf is no longer listed as an actress in the German Stage Yearbook.

However, she continued to appear occasionally as an actress in the theater. In the 1929/30 season she had an annual engagement at the Neues Wiener Schauspielhaus, where she appeared together with Hans Moser in the Schwank Das Rote Tuch . In the thirties she worked for several years as a designer on the half-hour “ Radio Wien ” radio series “The Hour of the Woman”.

Movie

During the First World War, Wulf also took part in two silent films directed by Richard Oswald and Luise Kolm / Jakob Fleck . The " Internet Movie Database " (IMDb) lists Wulf as an actress in the silent films Das Laster (1915) and Der Schandfleck (1917) without any biographical information and without precise details of the role . In the 1920s, Wulf played in the historical biography Ninon de Lenclos (1920) by Eugen Burg and in the moral drama Eros in Ketten (1929) by director Conrad Wiene . Marianne Wulf's participation in the German propaganda film Das Vaterland Ruft (1914) together with the actor Harry Liedtke cannot be clearly proven.

In the 1920s, Wulf was a fashion consultant, responsible for the fashion and costumes for the films The Queen of Moulin Rouge (1926), Ms. Sopherl vom Naschmarkt (1927) and Louise von Coburg (1927). She was a member of the lecture committee of the Viennese "Association of Cinema Friends", where in 1927 she gave a lecture on the "Problems of the costumes in film and the toilet worries of the stars". In January 1927 she gave a lecture in the Café Cosmos with the title “Fashion in Film”.

Private

Marianne Wulf, who left the Catholic Church on July 3, 1919, married the Swiss- born Philipp Heinrich Adolf Frauer (born December 29, 1856 in Schaffhausen ) on December 11, 1919 , “priv. Official retired ”, registered in Vienna, where, according to Lehmann's address directory, she shared her mother's apartment (Mariahilfer Strasse 19-21) with her mother. Occasionally she is referred to in publications as "Marianne Frauer-Wulf" or "Marianne Wulf-Frauer".

Marianne Wulf died on August 27, 1944 in Vienna, where she was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery in her parents' grave (group 55, extension A, number 23).

reception

Marianne Wulf was largely forgotten as an actress. In Wilhelm Kosch's VII. Volume of the Deutsches Theater-Lexikons , published at the end of 2011, it is noted: “Date and place of death unknown”. The Austrian literary and cultural scientist Andreas Weigel conducted extensive research on the life and artistic work of Marianne Wulf in early 2020. In April and May 2020 he published his research results for the first time in his culture blog "Garser Tourismusgeschichte", which appears on Facebook , and remembered her life in historical documents, newspaper clippings and photos.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marianne Wulf . Portrait and biography. In: The Humorist of November 1, 1898.
  2. ^ Theater and art news of June 12, 1897. In: Neue Freie Presse of June 13, 1897, page 8.
  3. ↑ Berliner Bühnenbrief from September 17, 1897. In: Der Humorist from September 20, 1897. Page 4.
  4. ↑ Berliner Bühnenbrief from September 28, 1897. In: Der Humorist from October 1, 1897, page 5.
  5. ↑ Berliner Bühnenbrief from February 8, 1898. In: Der Humorist from February 10, 1898, page 4/5.
  6. ↑ Theater and Art . In: Sport und Salon (newspaper) of July 26, 1900. Page 7.
  7. ↑ Prague theater letter . In: Der Humorist of September 10, 1904, page 4.
  8. ↑ Anna Denk: Acting in Silent Film: Film studies investigations into professional development in Vienna in the 1910s and 1920s . Transcript Verlag 2019. Page 200. ISBN 978-3-8376-4858-4 .
  9. ↑ Sheets of the Bavarian State Association for Family Studies (BBLF), Volume 7 (1929), No. 10. Page 170 (top left)
personal data
SURNAME Wulf, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frauer-Wulf, Marianne (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Brunn am Gebirge , Lower Austria , then Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1944
Place of death Vienna , Austria