Meta Bünger

Meta Bünger (born March 16, 1870 in Dohne near Leipzig , † September 24, 1928 in Dresden ) was a German child actress and stage actress .

Life

Bünger, the daughter of an actor couple, was used on the stage as a child (she had been playing since she was three). In 1879 the little actress was granted her first benefit in Glatz. She appeared in the play Margarethe or the Hammerschmied von Marienburg and was generally described as extremely talented. Bünger found her first engagement in 1893 with the ensemble guest performance of the Theater der Modernen, with which she toured several larger German cities. Due to her performance as "Käthe Vockerat" (in Lonely People by Gerhart Hauptmann ) she was engaged at the German Theater in Munich, where she worked from 1894 to 1896, came to the Residenztheater in Hanover in 1897, and to the Carl Schultze Theater in Hamburg in 1898 1900 became a member of the Irvingplace Theater in New York, of which she was a member until 1902.

In 1910 she was employed in Berlin, then she went to Vienna. In 1913 she played at the New Theater in Frankfurt. In 1924 she played "Marthe" in the Broken Krug . Meta Bünger was a member of the Albert Theater ensemble in Dresden throughout the 1920s . The artist died in this city at the beginning of autumn 1928.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 137 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, first volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953, p. 232 f.

Web links

• Meta Bünger at The Ibsen Stage Performance Database at the University of Oslo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rainer Kolhlmeyer: Oscar Wilde in Germany and Austria . 1996, p. 208 names her as an actress on December 10, 1913
2. ^ Heinrich von Kleist Society: Writings . Volumes 7-8, 1927. p. 187.

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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