Meta Illing
Meta Illing , married Meta Merzbach ( February 27, 1872 in Berlin - December 26, 1909 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German theater actress .
Life
Illing, the daughter of a wagon builder, took dramatic lessons from Louise Wentzel and went to the stage in 1891. She made her debut in Ulm as “Agnes” in Quikows , then came to Königsberg from 1892 to 1893, Stettin from 1893 to 1894, to the Schiller Theater in Berlin from 1894 to 1896, then moved to the Lessing Theater, where she stayed for two years, whereupon one Calls to the Thaliatheater in Hamburg to obey. From 1900 she no longer accepted a fixed engagement, but appeared as a guest on German stages. She was also the founder of the »English Theater in Germany«, with which she toured.
In 1899 she married the writer, doctor and sex researcher Georg Merzbach (1868–1939)
The sculptor Martin Schauß created a plaster bust in her honor.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 464, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Merzbach in the personal dictionary of sex research
- ^ Fräulein Meta Illing (1896, plaster polychrome). Shown at the International Art Exhibition Berlin 1896. Catalog of the International Art Exhibition Berlin 1896
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Illing, meta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Merzbach, Meta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1909 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |