Marie Seebach

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Marie Seebach, lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber , 1855
Marie Seebach (anonymous wood engraving, publ. 1899)

Marie Seebach (* February 24 jul. / 8. March  1829 greg. In Riga , † 3. August 1897 in St. Moritz ) was a German actress and opera singer .

Live and act

Seebach came from a family of artists and made his debut in various roles as a child. In 1850 she became one of the first students at the Cologne Music Conservatory to train as an opera singer. Despite some success, Seebach later switched to acting and worked with success as a soubrette at the theaters of Lübeck , Danzig and Kassel .

Seebach was hired at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg , where she played Gretchen after a short trial period . After a very successful guest performance in Vienna , she was hired by artistic director Franz von Dingelstedt to go to Munich , where she was involved in the sensational overall play of Dingelstedt in 1854 . Her ability, especially in tragic roles, gave Seebach the opportunity to make several guest appearances; u. a. in the Vienna Burgtheater and the Meininger Hoftheater .

In 1859 Seebach made a guest appearance at the city theater in Hanover , where he married the opera singer Albert Niemann . With him she went to Berlin in 1866 . The marriage was unhappy and was soon divorced. Seebach undertook several extensive tours in the following years; u. a. to Saint Petersburg (1868) and Amsterdam (1869). After the war of 1870 she made an extensive tour of the USA in 1871.

After further appearances abroad, Seebach became a member of the ensemble of the royal theater in Berlin in 1886 . At the age of around 60 she withdrew into private life and settled in St. Moritz. She died there on August 3, 1897 at the age of 63.

When her son Oscar, a singer, painter and composer, died in 1893 at the age of only 32, she founded a home in Weimar for needy stage artists in 1895 , which she ran until her death. This is located on Tiefurter Allee.

Marie Seebach's grave

Marie and Oscar Seebach were buried in Cemetery II of the Trinity Parish on Bergmannstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The representative grave monument bears a portrait relief of Seebach created by Carl Hans Bernewitz . The grave was dedicated as an honor grave of the state of Berlin from 1992 to 2014 .

Important roles

literature

  • Hermann Arthur Lier :  Seebach, Marie . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 298-301.
  • Otto Franz Gensichen : From Marie Seebach's Life . Duncker, Berlin 1900.
  • Karl Richard Henker (ed.): Funerary art, I. Collection of Berlin cemeteries. Otto Baumgärtel - Verlag für Kunstgewerbe und Architektur, Berlin undated (around 1904), panel I.5 (the tomb as it was in 1897)
  • Adolph Kohut : From Josef Tichatschek's estate. Letters from Richard Wagner, Heinrich Marschner, Albert Niemann, Hans von Bülow, Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, Johanna Jachmann-Wagner and Marie Seebach . In: Bühne und Welt , Verlag von Bühne u. Welt, Hamburg 1907 9 (1906/07) II, pp. 418-423.
  • Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs. Berlin 2006
  • Paul Meßner: Immortal Gretchen. A Marie Seebach biography. Wartburg-Verlag, Weimar 1995.
  • Reinhard Schau : The Marie Seebach Foundation - A retirement home for stage performers. In Weimar since 1895. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne u. a. 2015.
  • Walther Schödel: Marie Seebach. Life e. great actress. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1959.
  • Frank Eberhardt: Pure heart, high mind, restless striving! The actress Marie Seebach (1829–1897) . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 8, 1997, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 82-89 ( luise-berlin.de ).

Web links

Commons : Marie Seebach  - Collection of Images
  • Marie Seebach on the website of the Marie Seebach Foundation Weimar

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of St. Peter's Church in Riga (Latvian: Rīgas sv. Pētera baznīca)
  2. ^ Marie Seebach Foundation Weimar. In: Magazin für Unna, Herbstblatt No. 20 September 2000, accessed on 16 May 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Seebach, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1897
Place of death St. Moritz