Nina Sontag
Nina Sontag , actually Anna Auguste Sonntag (born November 26, 1811 in Koblenz , † September 22, 1879 in St. Marienthal Monastery , Upper Lusatia ) was a German opera singer (soprano) and nun .
Life
Nina (actually Nanni) Sontag was the daughter of the actors Franz Sontag and Franziska Martloff ; the singer Henriette Sontag was her sister, the actor Karl Sontag her brother.
Nina Sontag received her first acting lessons from her mother and was able to successfully debut at the Königstädtisches Theater in Berlin at the age of 14 in 1825 . Her engagement there lasted until spring 1831; then she went on a guest tour which took her to the theaters of Aachen, Kassel, Magdeburg and Prague. At the same time, she often accompanied her sister Henriette on her guest appearances.
At the age of 34, Nina Sontag, who Karoline Bauer describes as strangely serious and withdrawn , gave up her career as an actress in 1844 and entered the monastery of the Discalced Carmelites in Prague . Because her health was not up to the ascetic life in Carmel, she transferred, with the permission of the superiors, to the St. Marienthal Abbey near Görlitz , where she was given the religious name Juliane . Sr. Juliane died in 1879 and was buried in the St. Marienthal monastery cemetery.
The play “Sisters” by Frank Rebitschek deals with the relationship with her sister Henriette .
Roles (selection)
- Ännchen - Der Freischütz ( Carl Maria von Weber )
- Zerlina - Don Giovanni ( Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart )
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Nina Sontag . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 978 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Web links
- Nina Sontag at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- contemporary review of the Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung, Volume 33
- Mentioned in the magazine Signals for the Musical World No. 12 (1848), p. 93
Individual evidence
- ↑ City Archives Mainz, family register 1760-1900 , Family number 3075
- ↑ Lt. Family register Mainz born in Darmstadt
- ↑ Karoline Bauer: Lost Heart Stories: Postponed Memoirs. Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1880. pp. II, 188 and I, 230.
- ↑ Table of contents on Pamela Fuderer's homepage ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sunday, Nina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sunday, Nanni |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) and nun |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koblenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1879 |
| Place of death | St. Marienthal Monastery , Upper Lusatia |