Marie Meyer

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Marie Meyer (born August 27, 1840 in Breslau , † July 16, 1908 in Berlin ) was a German actress.

Marie Meyer (full name: Maria Wilhelmine Adelheid Meyer) was the daughter of the theater inspector Friedrich August Meyer and the opera singer Anna Maria Absenger, who met at the theater in Aachen and married in 1831. She was the younger sister of the singer Marie Luise Dustmann-Meyer and mother of the writer Gustav Meyrink .

After her first appearances in Bremen, Hanover and Frankfurt am Main, she received her first regular engagement at the Wallner Theater in Berlin in 1864 . In a theater lexicon from 1903 it says:

"Her originality and capricious boldness were praised and she was described as an aspiring, captivating talent, whose pleasant warmth and simplicity of tone, as well as moving and true emotional expression, entitle the highest hopes."

During her engagement at the Royal Court Theater in Stuttgart between November 1865 and the end of August 1868 she met Karl von Varnbuler , which resulted in a relationship. At that time Varnbuler was Foreign Minister of Württemberg and de facto leading minister, comparable to a prime minister. He managed to hide the relationship with the singer from the public as well as the resulting pregnancy. Meyer subsequently left Stuttgart and gave birth to their son Gustav on January 19, 1868 in the hotel "Zum Blaue Bock" in Vienna , where her sister was engaged at the court opera at the time . In order to conceal the paternity of the newborn as much as possible, she claimed to have married a certain Karl Berg in Stuttgart the year before, which is why Meyrink's birth certificate was issued in the name of "Gustav Berg".

Further engagements at the Hoftheater in Munich (1869–1880), at the Stadt-Theater Hamburg (1880–1882), at the Deutsches Theater in Prague (1883–1885), at the Court Theater in St. Petersburg (1885–1891) and at the Lessing Theater in Berlin (1891-1892) followed. In 1902 she said goodbye to the stage.

Marie Meyer appeared in salon plays, but also in classical theater plays (e.g. as Franziska in Minna von Barnhelm and as Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Binder : Gustav Meyrink. A life under the spell of magic. Vitalis Verlag, Prague 2009, ISBN 978-3-89919-078-6 , p. 17
  2. ↑ Hartmut Binder: Gustav Meyrink. Prague 2009, p. 19
  3. ↑ Hartmut Binder: Gustav Meyrink. Prague 2009, p. 21
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Maria Wilhelmine Adelheid (full name); Meyer, Maria; Meyrink, Maria; Meyrink, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1908
Place of death Berlin