Rosina Regina Ahles

Rosina Regina Ahles , married name Rosina Regina Lortzing (born December 5, 1799 in Bietigheim , † June 13, 1854 in Berlin ) was a German actress and the wife of Albert Lortzing .

Life

She was the daughter of the Bietigheim gravedigger Johannes Ahles and his wife Regina Dorothea nee Kohlbrey. After her father's death, she was sent to the orphanage in Stuttgart in 1804 . She began her career as an actress at the court theater there at an early age. Around 1816 she came to the Rhineland, where she took on roles at the Derossi theater company ("ABC Theater") led by Caroline Müller . The Lortzing family of actors also worked for Josef Derossi , with whom Ahles appeared on stage for the first time on November 14, 1818 in the Aachen Komödienhaus at a performance of Wilhelm Tell . She had the role of Berta von Bruneck , the young Albert Lortzing played the field contactor Stüßi. In the future, the Lortzings and Ahles could often be seen together on stage, together they also switched from Derossi to Friedrich Sebald Ringelhardt .

Rosina and Albert married on January 30, 1824. After the marriage they first took in Rosina's sister Katharine Kupfer and her daughter Christine. After a falling out with her sister, her daughter Christine stayed as a foster child with the Lortzings, who subsequently also had numerous offspring. Between 1826 and 1844, Rosina Ahles gave birth to eleven children, eight daughters and three sons, five of which did not survive childhood.

Despite her frequent pregnancies, Rosina Ahles continued to work as an actress, initially in Cologne, Aachen and Dresden. In January 1825, shortly after her first birth, she played in Schiller's Phaedra and Lessing's Nathan the Wise . Other stage plays of the time in which they were played, must the innocent suffer many of Theodor Hell, The Wonder Cabinet by Holbein and the guilt of Adolf Müllner .

The house of the Lortzings in Leipzig

In 1826 Albert and Regina moved to the court theater in Detmold , while Albert's parents stayed with Ringelhardt. Rosina Ahles played a total of 129 roles under the Detmold theater director August Pichler . Around 1832 Ringelhardt took over the Stadttheater in Leipzig and called Albert and Rosina to his home, where they met Albert's parents, who had remained in the Ringelhardt Ensemble. The Lortzings initially had a good time in Leipzig for around a decade, and that is where the rest of the children were born. In the course of time, Rosina Ahles withdrew from acting in order to devote herself to her role as mother, while Albert Lortzing, who had meanwhile advanced to become a composer, got a job as Kapellmeister in 1844.

After Lortzing's resignation in Leipzig, the family made various stops in Vienna and Berlin, where Lortzing died in 1851. Rosina considered moving to relatives in Stuttgart, but soon fell ill and died in Berlin in 1854 at the age of 54. Like her husband three years earlier, she was buried in the Sophienfriedhof II there. In contrast to Albert Lortzing's grave, that of Rosina Regina Lortzing geb. Ahles has not survived.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Genealogy Albert Lortzing
2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 48.

literature

• Hans Hoffmann: Rosina Lortzing from Bietigheim - A life at the side of the composer . In: Blätter zur Stadtgeschichte , No. 6, Bietigheim-Bissingen 1987, pp. 101–123.

Web links

• Image at Palitzsch.me