Marie Hauptmann

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Marie Thienemann and Gerhart Hauptmann, 1881

Marie Gabriele Martha "Mary" Hauptmann , b. Marie Thienemann (born July 1, 1860 in Berlin-Kreuzberg ; † October 6, 1914 in Dockenhuden ) came from a wealthy German family and was the first wife of Gerhart Hauptmann .

Life

The wealthy Berlin merchant who moved to Dresden, Berthold († 1880) and his wife Rosa († 1865) Thienemann had five daughters: Frida (1854–1887), Olga (1856–1933), Adele (1858–1932), Marie (1860) –1914) and Martha (1862–1939). They grew up in the Hohenhaus in Zitzschewig , now part of Radebeul , with a Moravian pietistic upbringing. Without consulting her parents, Adele first married the hotelier Georg Hauptmann in Bad Salzbrunn in 1880 . Martha married his brother Carl Hauptmann in Dresden in 1884 . Marie became secretly engaged to Gerhart Hauptmann on September 29, 1881, officially on October 8, 1884, and married him in church on May 5, 1885 in Dresden. With her inherited fortune, she financed his lavish lifestyle, his studies and his stay in Italy, where he wanted to become a sculptor. They spent their honeymoon in 1885 with Carl and Martha on Rügen , where the men first visited the island of Hiddensee . Then the couple moved to an apartment in Berlin-Moabit in 1885 and in September to Villa Lassen in Erkner , where Gerhart endured his lung disease better. a. wrote the successful piece Bahnwärter Thiel (1888).

Marie Hauptmann's gravestone, erected in the park of the Hohenhaus since 2007 after the grave site in Hamburg was closed

Marie gave birth to their sons Ivo (1886–1973), Eckart (1887–1980) and Klaus (1889–1967), who later all became merchants. In 1889 they moved to Berlin-Charlottenburg and in 1891 to Schreiberhau in Silesia , together with Carl and Martha. The former residential building in Mittelschreiberhau, today the Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann House Museum (Dom Carla i Gerharta Hauptmannów), testifies to this . Gerhart Hauptmann provided a literary processing of the property find and the purchase of a house in the story Das Landhaus zur Michelsmühle (1908). The literary rivalry between the brothers in the same house quickly created tension. Marie Hauptmann also began to get depressed because of her husband's many absences. (Sprengel, p. 238)

In 1893/4 there was a marriage crisis due to Gerhart's love for the Berlin violinist and actress Margarete Marschalk (1875–1957) from November 1893. Marie Hauptmann, who was immediately pictured, went to America with the children in January 1894, where she spent a few months with Alfred Ploetz was staying in Meriden, Connecticut ; Gerhart Hauptmann traveled afterwards, but they separated for good in September 1894, and he continued the relationship with his lover, whom he soon married in September 1904 after divorcing Marie in June 1904. In the Book of Passion (1929) Gerhart Hauptmann described his affair in coded form. From October 1894 Marie lived with her sons to rent in Dresden, but there were frequent contacts because of the sons. Gerhart Hauptmann would have preferred an open three-way relationship during this time. From 1900 she moved (officially still together with Gerhart, who already had a house built in Agnetendorf ) into the newly built Villa Rautendelein in Dresden-Blasewitz , Hochuferstr. 12, which she kept until 1909 after the divorce with a complicated property regime. Her son Ivo also became a painter through his famous father's contacts in Paris and from 1913 had a studio in Dockenhuden, where she died during a visit in 1914 because of the impending birth of her grandson. Gerhart Hauptmann came to see her farewell and dedicated further transfigurative poems to her ( The Great Dream ). Ivo's picture of his mother (1907) hangs in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris .

Marie Hauptmann was a member of the French League for the Preservation of Human Rights (Ligue des droits de l'homme , LDH ) in Paris.

Fonts

  • Correspondence between 1905 and 1914. Marie Hauptmann - Eckart Hauptmann . Edited by Elisabeth Südkamp, ​​Dresden 2001 ISBN 978-3-930846-23-8

literature

  • Carl Hauptmann: The partridges. Comedy in five acts . Kurt Wolff Vlg., Leipzig 1916.
  • Gerhart Hauptmann: The maidens from the Bischofsberg. Comedy (5 acts). Berlin (S. Fischer) 1907. Created 1904–1906 (preliminary stage: Golden Times. A Spring Morning , 1892). Premiere February 2, 1907 Berlin (Lessing Theater; director: Rudolf Lenoir [1863–1952]; dramaturgy: Otto Brahm; with Else Lehmann [Sabine], Ida Orloff [Ludowike], Albert Bassermann [Nast], Hans Marr [vagabond]).
  • Hansgerhard Weiss : The sisters from the Hohenhaus. Dresden 2000, ISBN 978-3-930846-19-1 .
  • Rüdiger Bernhardt : Gerhart Hauptmann. A biography , Fischerhude 2007, ISBN 978-3-881322-87-4 .
  • Peter Sprengel : Gerhart Hauptmann: Bourgeoisie and great dream; a biography. Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-64045-2 .
  • Harriet Hauptmann (great-granddaughter); Stefan Rohlfs: In a hurry in Berlin .... Gerhart Hauptmann - Ivo Hauptmann. Correspondence. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942476-32-4 .

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Musée d'Orsay
personal data
SURNAME Captain, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hauptmann, Marie Gabriele Martha (full name); Captain, Mary (nickname); Thienemann, Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first wife of Gerhart Hauptmann
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Kreuzberg
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1914
Place of death Docking dogs