Marie Dahn-Hausmann

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Marie Dahn-Hausmann

The actress Marie Dahn-Hausmann (born June 17, 1829 in Vienna ; † March 21, 1909 in Munich ) was a daughter of the actors Ludwig Hausmann (1803–1876) and Julie Weick (= Juliane Hausmann 1810–1901), who only died in 1838 married when Ludwig Hausmann was engaged at the Hoftheater Mannheim and Julie Weick followed him there. Marie made her debut there in 1845 at the age of 16 as an actress.

Before she was permanently engaged at the royal court theater in Munich in 1849 , she appeared there as a guest in 1848. Schopenhauer's student Adam von Doß (1820–73) reported on this in a letter to Hermann Schoen:

“ I recently had a rare pleasure from the loveliest theater appearance I have ever seen. Marie Hausmann from Frankfurt made a guest appearance on our stage. Unfortunately, I heard of her being here and her talent late and was only able to admire her twice, as Käthchen von Heilbronn and as Marianne in the siblings . She is eighteen years old; a girl whose forehead and cheeks have not yet been embossed with the coquetry and weariness of an actress. She is natural, graceful and graceful and made the deepest impression on me, not just because of the charm of her appearance, but because of what lies behind it, because of the idea that shimmers through. Oh, how long will she know how to preserve such a fragrance on her dangerous path! I gladly missed the bigger routine. It was touching how she played from within, as it were lost in herself, turned away from the weary glances of the audience, in mind and heart to pleasure herself. The idea of ​​her role model, which she reproduced so beautifully, shone around her like a saint. Because if I only confess it, I'll hold it up, Kleist's Käthchen! The knight's stuff, of course, is nothing to me; but the sweet, deeply felt image of women is a lot to me. "

Similarly enthusiastic, King Ludwig I of Bavaria sent Marie Hausmann with an invitation to the new Wittelsbacher Palais , which he had moved into after his abdication on March 20, 1848, the following verses:

Lovely being, you moved into the apartment united with me,
The threshold never even touched your foot.
The thought of you enlivens, cheers the rooms,
Since you linger spiritually, you stay there constantly.
Without you too, I can never think of the same,
Since you are childlike itself, gentle cosiness.
Irresistibly
it attracts, the purity of the soul, irresistible therefore, Mary, you attract .
Your image can
not turn pale through the breath of the years, Those from earth you swing me up to heaven.

Ludwig I later sent her all sorts of poems she had composed, even after she married the actor Friedrich Dahn, who was almost eighteen years her senior, in 1852 and had a daughter for him. This only daughter of the couple fell into incurable madness on her honeymoon in 1878, as Gottfried von Böhm reports when he received the letter that King Ludwig II wrote to the desperate mother on April 10, 1878.

The letter from Ludwig II to the venerated artist of April 25, 1876, "at 2 o'clock in the morning", in which he wrote of a kinship with her in "hatred of the base and injustice" and alluding to her words several times, has become famous embodied Beatrice from Schiller's bride of Messina confessed: "I want to remain an eternal riddle to myself and others".

On the occasion of her 50th stage anniversary in 1895, Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria made her an honorary member of the royal court stage . On May 31, 1899 she received the Medal of Honor of the Order of Ludwig . In 1898 she gave her farewell performance. She found her final resting place in Munich next to her husband, who died in 1889.

Roles (selection)

Marie Dahn-Hausmann 1895

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . List, Leipzig 1903, p. 173 f. ( Digitized version )
  • Joseph Kürschner:  Hausmann, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 97 f.
  • New theater almanac , published by the Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Members , 21st year, Berlin 1910, p. 165 archive.org
  • Alfred Frhr. von Mensi , in: Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog , edited by Anton Bettelheim , Volume 14, Berlin 1912, pp. 79-82 archive.org
  • Alfred von Mensi-Klarbach: Old Munich theater memories . Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1923, p. 67.
  • Alexander Rauch : The symbolism of Ludwig II. - to the solution of the "Eternal Riddle ..." , in: Götterdämmerung - Ludwig II. , Catalog essay volume of the Bavarian State Exhibition, Herrenchiemsee, ed. from the House of Bavarian History, Munich 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New theater almanac , published by the Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Members , 21st year, Berlin 1910, p. 165 archive.org , on the other hand, mentions March 22, 1909 as the date of death.
  2. ^ Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , 2nd edition, edited by Rudolf Vierhaus , 11th volume (supplements / register of persons), Munich 2008, p. 440 books.google
  3. ↑ Adam Ludwig von Doß. A picture of life. Based on family records and letters written by his widow . Edited by Ludwig Schemann (1928) uni-mainz.de PDF , p. 292
  4. ^ Rolf Grashey: The Dahn family and the Munich court theater, 1833-1899 . Theater history research Volume 42. Leopold Voss, Leipzig 1932, p. 98 ( excerpt from Google Books )
  5. ↑ published by Michael Georg Conrad : Marie Dahn-Hausmann. A reminder sheet. The collector (= supplement to the Munich-Augsburger Abendzeitung ), born in 1919, No. 60 (June 14th) and No. 61 (June 17th)
  6. ↑ Gottfried von Böhm: Ludwig II. King of Bavaria. His life and his time. Berlin 1922 books.google , second, increased edition 1924. p. 436 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Digitized : “That you turned to me in your great sorrow and confidently complain about your deepest sorrow filled me with true emotion. Your heart has not betrayed you; you knew that mine feels with you in joys and sorrows. You can always rely on me in all situations in life. If only the painful message is not dangerous to your husband, him, who himself has not long been restored to his suffering. .... What I do not understand is that it was precisely in the days of happiness and joy that terrible misfortune struck your child, since otherwise moments of pain and despair tend to lead to a numbness of the mind. .... One or two days after the wedding, I received a thank you letter from your daughter in Innsbruck, which pleased me very much; it was written with deep feeling, pervaded by true poetry ... "
  7. ↑ Gottfried von Böhm: Ludwig II. King of Bavaria. His life and his time. Berlin 1922 books.google , second, increased edition 1924. p. 438; see also Wikiquote: Ludwig II of Bavaria
  8. ↑ a b c Paul Heyse: Memories of youth and confessions ( E-Text Gutenberg-DE )
personal data
SURNAME Dahn-Hausmann, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hausmann, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1909
Place of death Munich