Paula Conrad

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Paula Conrad-Schlenther, 1903

Paula Conrad , married Paula Conrad-Schlenther (born February 27, 1860 in Vienna , † August 9, 1938 in Berlin ) was an Austro-German theater actress .

Life

Paula Conrad made her debut in Baden near Vienna in 1877 . From 1877 she was part of the ensemble at the Royal Theater in Berlin. In the first performance of Gerhart Hauptmann's Hanneles Himmelfahrt in 1893 she played Hannele, in Alfred Kerr's memory of 1918 she remained the first in every sense .

In 1892 Conrad married the theater critic of the Vossische Zeitung and later director of the Vienna Burgtheater , Paul Schlenther , and worked for him in Vienna from 1898 to 1910. After that she worked again at the Schauspielhaus Berlin until 1932. Conrad was primarily a captain interpreter, including as Frau Flamm in Rose Bernd at the premiere in 1903. Another important role was that of the Aase in Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt . She only worked in silent films for a short time. Her grave is in the Berlin Urn Cemetery on Richtstrasse .

Filmography

literature

  • Renate Hoyer: Paula Conrad-Schlenther: 1860-1938; forty years at the Royal Theater in Berlin , Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin, 1971. 160 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Kerr : Hanneles Himmelfahrt , in: Der Tag , February 26, 1918, in: ders .: "I say what is to be said": theater reviews 1893-1919 . Günther Rühle (ed.). Works in individual volumes, volume 7.1. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1998, p. 750