Philomene Hartl-Mitius

Philomene Hartl-Mitius , also Philomena Hartl-Mitius , née Philomene Waschmitius (born April 14, 1852 in Munich ; † July 27, 1928 there ) was a royal Bavarian court actress and writer .

Life

The daughter of a Bavarian government official was sent to a monastery in Nymphenburg to be educated. In 1865 she left this and was only allowed to become an actress if a well-known artist convinced her father. The court actor Heinrich Richter took on this task . He convinced her father and so she was trained for the stage by Klara Ziegler, among others . Since 1868 she played on the stages in Olomouc and Nuremberg, from 1871 she finally belonged to the Munich Gärtnerplatztheater , where she mainly took on Bavarian dialect roles and enjoyed great popularity.

She was also active as a writer, especially as the author of popular plays such as "Der goldene Boden" or "Der Protzenbauer" and operettas such as "Die Dorfschwalbe" and "Theatertypen" as well as the novel "Odysseus im Salon". On behalf of Ludwig II , she wrote a historical drama from the life of Louis XV for his private special performances. entitled The Outcast . In 1899 she ended her stage career. Hartl-Mitius had been married to the Kommerzienrat Franz Hartl since 1876. The marriage produced four sons, u. a. the conductor and operetta composer Bruno Hartl.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 394, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Vol. 4, 1996.
• Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon. , Vol. 1, 1953.

Web links

• Literature by and about Philomene Hartl-Mitius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Philomene Hartl-Mitius estate in the Bavarian State Library. It also includes drawings by Franz von Pocci for Hartl-Mitius.