Mathilde Sussin
Mathilde Sussin (born September 21, 1876 in Vienna ; † August 2, 1943 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was an Austrian actress .
Life
She began her artistic career in 1895 at the Innsbruck City Theater . In 1897 she played in Aachen , 1898 in Pressburg and 1899 in Wiener Neustadt . In 1901 she came to Graz , where she made a successful debut in 1901 as Lady Milford in Kabale und Liebe . In 1906 she first appeared in Berlin .
Her subject was that of the elegant, sensitive salon lady . She acted particularly in plays by Gerhart Hauptmann , Henrik Ibsen and Hermann Sudermann at the Lessing Theater in Berlin and, from 1916, at the State Theater . That year she got her first film role, and from 1920 she was often seen in silent films.
The Jewish actress performed her last engagement at the theater in Stresemannstrasse , where she took part in the premiere of the play Andreas Hollmann by Hans-Christoph Kärgel in June 1933 . Most recently she was here in October in the house, which has since been renamed Theater an der Saarlandstrasse , at Paul Wegener 's side in Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman . With the establishment of the Reichstheaterkammer she lost all employment opportunities.
On September 9, 1942, she was deported to Theresienstadt . Here she was still active in cultural life, u. a. with Philipp Manes. She died of tuberculosis on August 2, 1943 .
Filmography
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literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 1020, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 333.
Web links
- Mathilde Sussin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
- Mathilde Sussin reads “The Christmas Story” with the Basilica Choir of St. Hedwig (Berlin), choir director: Pius Kalt , viewed: June 21, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 606.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sussin, Mathilde |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 2, 1943 |
| Place of death | Theresienstadt concentration camp |