Silvia Brand

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Silvia Brand (born May 28, 1848 in Gersdorf bei Hartha , Kingdom of Saxony, † November 10, 1909 in Dresden ) was a German actress , journalist , author and entrepreneur .

Live and act

The daughter of a royal assessor , who was raised in rural seclusion , showed musical talent at an early age, to which the composer Adam first became aware. This also animated them to make little seals.

Shortly after the death of her father, she married an artist at the age of 16 and divorced again at the age of 19. During and after her marriage, she lived as a guest of the local abbess Gabriele in the Marienthal monastery .

First attempts at writing for various newspapers brought little profit. During a concert in front of the Saxon court, she recited a poem she had written. Carola , the then Crown Princess and later Queen of Saxony, encouraged her to act, and six weeks later she got a job at the Dresden Court Theater . She was Deborah in Rosenthal's drama of the same name. Despite taking lessons from Heinrich Laube and Alexander Strakosch , she could not make friends with theater life.

After repeated attempts to write for different newspapers under different names, the owner of the Dresdner Nachrichten offered her a position as a member of the editorial team. She pursued this activity for thirteen years, from 1880 to 1893, on the side she wrote books, gave lectures for charitable purposes and gave dramatic lessons. The text of “Hear us, Germania”, composed by Hugo Richard Jüngst , probably comes from Brand as a lyrical poem.

From 1893 Brand was a member of the editorial team of Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten and edited the area of house and stove . In order to realize her outlook on life, Brand bought a factory where she spent half of the week among her workers. She spent the other half of the week in the editorial office in Dresden.

Around 1900 Brand moved from Dresden to Niederlößnitz , where she owned a villa at 45 Hohen Strasse .

Brand was awarded the Italian "great gold medal Onore e virto ". In addition, she was an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Florence and a qualified member of the Association Litteraire Internationale in Paris .

Works

  • Silvia Brand: For our honor . Warnatz & Lehmann, Dresden 1882.
  • Silvia Brand: Aunt Lottchen. A humorous declamation for women . Weiske, Dresden 1884.
  • Silvia Brand: King of time and King in eternity. A fairy tale for children of all ages . Weiske, Dresden 1887.
  • Silvia Brand: Dresden picture book . Wilhelm Hoffmann, Dresden undated (approx. 1890).
  • Silvia Brand: Pearls in the swamp. Play in 4 acts . A. Beyer, Dresden 1896.
  • Silvia Brand: Autumn leaves. Seals for the lecture . A. Beyer, Dresden 1897.
  • Silvia Brand: How it works. Highlights from the editorial office . Burkhardt, Dresden 1906.
  • Silvia Brand: Between us. Women's discussions and confessions . 1907

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Schramm-Macdonald: Moniteur des Dates, contenant un million de renseignements biographiques, généalogiques et historiques. Supplement et appendice . Ed .: Édouard-Marie Oettinger. Ninth and last volume. Bernhard Hermann, Leipzig 1882, p. 30 ( limited preview in the Google book search - “Brand (Silvia), German actor (trag.), Dramatic teacher and writer, born in Gersdorf, b. Hartha (Sachs.), May 28, 1848 , now lives in Dresden. ").
  2. ↑ a b Brand, Mrs. Silvia . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 489 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . [Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in Saxony]. Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, City of Radebeul. SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 , p. 153 .
personal data
SURNAME Brand, Silvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, journalist, author, entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Gersdorf near Hartha
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1909
Place of death Dresden