Marie Heese

Marie Heese (1825–1853) as Gretchen in Faust , contemporary oil painting by Gustav Adolf Barthel

Marie Heese , née Marie Herbold ( 1825 in Wiesbaden - October 29, 1853 in Dresden ) was a German theater actress.

Life

Heese, the daughter of the opera singer Johann Karl Herbold (1794–1843), took to the stage as a child. Franz Ignaz von Holbein's attention was drawn to her developing talent, he saw her play in Mainz and would have loved to hire her for the Burgtheater straight away. But she was advised against and so the young artist (1841) took up engagement at the Kassel court theater. She worked there until 1845 and was most pleasantly noticeable through her grace, her decisive talent and her kindness on the stage and in private life.

This favor was also granted to her in Braunschweig in 1845, in Breslau in 1845 and from 1847 to 1848 in the Theater an der Josefstadt in Vienna. She completed the last two engagements together with her husband Rudolf Heese (also Rudolph Heese). She stayed in Vienna until 1851, where her talent found no less recognition than in Germany, in order to follow a call to the court theater in Dresden that year.

However, for only two years she was lucky enough to be idolized by an audience. The consequences of childbirth threw her on a painful bed and on October 29, 1853 this artist, who had justified the highest hopes, passed away. Great was the grief of the fellow artists, great was the grief of the audience, who could not forget their artistic effectiveness, which had only lasted two years, for many years. It was an adornment for German art.

Her brother Karl Herbold was also an opera singer and actor. Her daughter Clara Heese (also Klara , 1851-1921) also became an actress.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 408 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Portrait in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Marie Heese at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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