Mirjam Horwitz
Mirjam Horwitz , married Ziegel (born June 15, 1882 in Berlin , † September 26, 1967 in Trittau near Hamburg ) was a German actress and director .
Life
Mirjam Horwitz completed her apprenticeship as an actress with Max Reinhardt and then made her debut on various Berlin theaters. There she met her future husband, the director Erich Ziegel (1876–1950), and went to Hamburg with him.
After the end of the First World War in 1918, the couple opened their own theater, the Hamburger Kammerspiele am Besenbinderhof . The aim was to put contemporary theater on the stage after the great social upheavals of those years. They opened their first season with a Frank Wedekind week and made a name for themselves as avant-garde theater together with young actors and modern authors . Her ensemble included Gustaf Gründgens , Werner Hinz , Paul Kemp and Fritz Kortner . The Kammerspiele at Besenbinderhof were among the most important German-speaking theaters outside of Berlin at that time.
After Erich Ziegel was appointed director of the Hamburger Schauspielhaus in 1926 , Mirjam Horwitz continued to independently lead the Kammerspiele at Besenbinderhof until 1928 and also directed it. Her drama students included Mita von Ahlefeldt and Carl-Heinz Schroth . Your collaboration with Gustaf Gründgens and Luzy von Jacobi continued . In 1928 the theater lost its venue, it had to make way for the new building of the union building.
During the National Socialist era , Mirjam Horwitz was banned from working as a Jew and fled to Vienna with her husband. Erich Ziegel did not succeed in building a secure existence there. In 1938 Gustaf Gründgens, who had meanwhile become the Prussian State Councilor and General Director of the Prussian State Theaters, brought Ziegel back to Berlin and, thanks to his relationship with leading Nazis, was able to offer Mirjam Horwitz protection. The actress was only able to appear again after the war , for example as Mother Wolffen in Gerhart Hauptmann's Biberfurz and in some films. Friedrich Schütter brought her to the Young Theater in Hamburg as a director .
Mirjam Horwitz and her husband, with whom she was married for almost fifty years, are buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery, grid square; P 7, 13 (above the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery ). At first the city of Hamburg paid for an honorary grave , then this was discontinued. Mirjam Horwitz's estate is in the Berlin State Library .
literature
- Barbara Müller-Wesemann: Jewish life in Hamburg . Published by the Institute for the History of German Jews, Hamburg. [1] accessed on August 14, 2016
Films (selection)
- 1913: Richard Wagner (silent film) (director: Carl Froelich , with Giuseppe Becce and Olga Engl )
- 1913: The Black Snake (silent film) (Director: Franz Hofer , with Emmerich Hanus )
- 1957: The Zurich engagement (director: Helmut Käutner , with Liselotte Pulver , Paul Hubschmid and Bernhard Wicki )
- 1958: Woman in her prime (Direction: Axel von Ambesser , with Marianne Koch )
Web links
- The tragedy for the famous dead
- Grave of the couple [2]
- Mirjam Horwitz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mirjam Horwitz at Frauenbiografien hamburg.de
- Portrait of Mirjam Horwitz at garten-der-frauen.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horwitz, Mirjam |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ziegel-Horwitz, Mirjam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress, director and general manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1967 |
| Place of death | Trittau near Hamburg |