Mathilde Schlegel

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Mathilde Schlegel , drawing by Julius Geißler

Mathilde Schlegel (born Mathilde Brandes ; born May 1, 1825 in Hanover , † February 7, 1848 in Dresden ) was a German theater actress .

Life

In the 1825 residence of the Kingdom of Hanover , born Mathilde fire was "early to Virgin matured" and was at the age of 16 years of life in the early 1840s, a member of the Hanoverian court theater in the Castle Opera House . Only two years later, the young woman married the court actor August Wilhelm Schlegel (* 1810) , who was very popular in Hanover .

According to the address book of the royal residence city of Hanover from 1842, Mathilde Brandes still lived at Leinstraße 849 , but August Wilhelm Schlegel at Burgstraße 1009 .

The Schlegelels soon had two children, but the couple were dissatisfied with their professional positions in Hanover. Therefore Mathilde Schlegel accepted an engagement in Detmold at the princely court stage . To do this, she initially left her two children and her husband behind, who due to contractual obligations did not want to move until later.

During her short time in Detmold, Mathilde Schlegel was constantly worried about her family. Shortly after leaving Hanover, Schlegel's husband also came to the stage in Detmold, but paralysis of the tongue made it impossible for him to continue his profession. Now the actress had to care for her sick husband, but could not make up for her two children. They stayed with their parents, where Schlegel's husband soon returned.

An indefinite engagement as a royal Saxon court actress at the court theater in Dresden, which the young woman entered on July 1, 1847, alleviated Schlegel's financial hardships, who arose with her income for the absent family and also supported her own parents. But work, constant worries and the everyday challenges of life made the young single earner more and more troubled. After a rehearsal of Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream on January 27, 1848, Mathilde Schlegel initially only felt uncomfortable, but the next day she felt sick. In spite of medical efforts, the court actress died - "her grief-stricken heart was broken" - at the age of 22 on February 7, 1848.

On February 10, 1848, Schlegel's coffin decorated with flowers was accompanied by members of the Royal Court Theater to Dresden's New Annenkirchhof . There the funeral procession was received by the Royal Theater Choir. Then the deacon Ernst Heinrich Pfeilschmidt gave the funeral speech, the dramaturge of the court theater Karl Gutzkow read a self-written farewell poem. Both texts with an obituary appeared shortly afterwards as a separate publication under the title Memory of Mathilde Schlegel, royal Saxon court actress at Teubner's printing house .

Gutzkow's poetic obituary was also recorded in the diary of the Royal Saxon Court Theater.

Roles and presentations

The day after Schlegel's funeral, the Dresdner Tageblatt wrote about the young deceased: “Her artistic representation stayed within the modest limits of graceful femininity. In the drama she achieved particularly depressed, soulful feelings, in the comedy she was harmlessly naive and childlike. Her 'Gretchen Lieblich' in ' Sisters ' was indisputably her most successful role. She played it with heartfelt affection and full of amiable humor. Her last role was Therese in 'Still Waters Are Deep'. "

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f g h i o. V., Ernst Heinrich Pfeilschmidt, Karl Gutzkow: Memory of Mathilde Schlegel, royal Saxon court actress , Teubnersche Buchdruckerei, Dresden 1848; Digitized via Google books
  2. ^ Wilhelm Nöldeke : The Johannis Masonic Lodge to the Black Bear in the Orient from Hanover 1774 to 1874 , Hanover: Hofbuchdruckerei Gebrüder Jänecke, 1875, p. 26; Digitized via Google books
  3. ^ Address book of the royal residence city of Hanover , Section VI: Directory of all members of the Royal Court Theater , pp. 68ff .; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  4. ↑ a b c d e Dresdner Tageblatt for the Representation of Local and Patriotic Interests , year 1848, number 42 of February 11, 1848, p. 331; Digitized via Google books
  5. ^ A b Robert Prölss : History of the court theater in Dresden. From its beginnings until 1862 , Wilhelm Baensch Verlagshandlung, Dresden 1878, p. 525; Digitized via Google books
  6. ↑ Information from the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Schlegel, Mathilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlegel, Brandes (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1848
Place of death Dresden