Stella von Hohenfels-Berger

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Stella Freifrau von Hohenfels-Berger
Stella Freifrau von Hohenfels-Berger as Iphigenia
Grave of Stella von Hohenfels-Berger

Stella Freifrau von Hohenfels-Berger, b. Loderbank , (born April 16, 1857 in Florence , † February 21, 1920 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actress.

Life

Stella Loderbank came from a wealthy bourgeois family. She received her training at the Sacre Cœur in Paris and from 1870 in a boarding school near Stuttgart , where she perfected herself in the German language. It was here that her interest in the theater was aroused. Without theater training, she first appeared at the Berlin National Theater in 1873 as Käthchen von Heilbronn and Luise in Kabale und Liebe . Guest appearances in Strasbourg and in Switzerland followed.

After she was recommended to the director of the Burgtheater at the time , Franz von Dingelstedt , she successfully introduced herself as Desdemona on May 30, 1873, and on September 1, 1873, was employed there permanently as a great naive. At first her sphere of activity was limited, only Adolf Wilbrandt, as director, brought her talent to full use. She was the ideal cast for his comedies. She also knew how to attract attention in supporting roles. She had been a court actress from 1881, and from 1887 the artist was employed by the castle with a lifelong contract.

In 1889 she married the artistic secretary and later Burgtheater director Dr. Alfred Freiherr von Berger , during whose management time (1910-12) she was not allowed to appear. They lived in the Villa Hohenfels in Hietzing , where Berger also died. Hugo Thimig describes the situation at the Burgtheater caused by the Hohenfels Berger in 1912 as follows:

We rush off with novelties that don't create a permanent repertoire for us. Valuable pieces in which the director's wife played may not be brought in ( Hamlet, Fiesko, Carlos, Weh dem, who lies, Tasso, Monna Vanna, Novella d'Andrea, What you want, Much Ado About Nothing, etc.) . But the director's wife no longer plays. She can't play anymore. Her memory has faded, she will probably never play again. Your cloakroom may not be used by any other actress; it stays closed like a tomb. This is a pathological condition that damages us eminently and that has probably no example in the history of the theater. Who knows whether Baron Berger would take a load off his heart if he were ordered in higher places to give his wife such pull pieces with placements so that he could identify himself to his, it seems, mentally disturbed wife.

She was given a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 32 A, number 46). In 1930 Hohenfelsplatz in Vienna- Meidling was named after the actress.

meaning

As an actress, Stella von Hohenfels-Berger embodied the ideal girl, young, graceful and full of grace. Her most important roles included Iphigenie, Käthchen, Minna von Barnhelm, Libussa, Harriet, Viola, Klärchen, Ophelia, Esther and Maria Stuart.

literature

Web links

Commons : Stella von Hohenfels-Berger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hugo Thimig tells , selected and introduced by Franz Hadamovsky, Böhlau, Graz-Cologne 1962, pp. 204f.
personal data
SURNAME Hohenfels-Berger, Stella from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenfels-Berger, Stella Freifrau von (full name); Loderbank, Stella von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1920
Place of death Vienna