Marie Baumeister

Marie Baumeister , actually Marie Baumüller , married Hoffmann (born February 1, 1819 in Berlin , according to other information on January 20, 1819 or in the years 1820 or 1823; † May 4, 1887 in Dresden ) was a German actress .

Life

Marie Baumeister made her debut in Gdansk in 1843 in the role of Marie Winter in Karl Gutzkows Werner or Herz und Welt and went to Riga in 1844 , later to Leipzig . She was very successful there in the roles of lover and salon lady . In 1845 she switched to a permanent engagement at the Hoftheater Hannover , where she made her debut as the title character in Kleist's play Das Käthchen von Heilbronn and immediately became a public favorite.

In 1858 she married the director of the Josefstadt theater in Vienna, Johann Hoffmann, and initially withdrew from the stage, but then appeared again and again in her husband's theater. After the death of her husband in 1865, she turned to the "older" role subjects and went first to the Stadttheater Hamburg (1866–1867), then to Leipzig (1868) and spent the years 1869–75 at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . From 1875–1876 she appeared at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg . She celebrated her stage farewell at the site of her debut, the Stadttheater Danzig, in the role of mother Fadet in Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer's successful play Die Grille .

After retiring from the stage, she moved to Dresden in 1878.

Her daughter Marie Hoffmann-Baumeister was also active as an actress on several German theaters in Mannheim, Aachen, Görlitz, Hanover and Berlin from 1874–1890.

She was the sister of Wilhelm Baumeister and Bernhard Baumeister , her niece was Antonie Baumeister and her sister-in-law Therese Ringelhardt .

literature

Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 63, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Hoffmann, Johann (VII.) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 172 ( digital copy ).

personal data
SURNAME	Builder, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Baumüller, Marie (real name); Hoffmann, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actress
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	May 4, 1887
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Constantin von Wurzbach : Hoffmann, Johann (VII.) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 172 ( digital copy ).