Nuscha Butze

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Nuscha Butze in 1890

Nuscha Butze , also Nuscha Beermann (born February 22, 1860 in Berlin ; † December 10, 1913 ) was a German theater actress , theater director and artistic director .

Life

Already at the age of 14 she entered Augsburg for the first time as an apprentice Franz in the posse The girl without money . Critics promised her an excellent stage career. Nuscha Butze then received engagements at the Bolzano City Theater , Innsbruck and Laibach . Director Franz Steiner then engaged her at the Theater an der Wien . In 1880 she engaged August Förster at the Leipzig City Theater, which he directed . In 1883 she accepted an engagement at the municipal theater in Wiesbaden . Her departure from Wiesbaden on August 30, 1888 turned out to be a general manifestation of her popular popularity. This stay was followed by appearances in Ludwig Barnay's newly founded Berlin theater , where she made her debut on September 20, 1888. In 1894 she went to the Theater des Westens . In that year she also appeared as a witness or victim in a trial against the impostor Josephine Farkas ; she had received several pieces of jewelry from Farkas.

In 1898, Nuscha Butze decided to become the director of a stage herself and took over the management of the New Theater ; she was thus "the first female theater director in Berlin". After four years, she resigned from the position to take up a position at the Royal Court Stage.

Since 1892 she was married to Georg Beermann, who, as the director of her theater, effectively supported her in her directorate efforts.

Nuscha Butze owned a villa in Berlin-Lichterfelde .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Nuscha Butz at Steglitzer Anzeiger , www.steglitz.de ( Memento from August 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Report in the New York Times of May 28, 1894
  3. ^ Journal of Berliner Leben , Issue 2 (1902).
  4. Illustration of the Villa Nuscha Butze ( Memento from August 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )