Susanna Benda

Susanna Benda , née Marie Susanna Limbach (born October 9, 1827 in Rudolstadt , Thuringia ; † October 3, 1912 in Houston , Texas , USA ) was a German actress and singer who appeared after 1852 as "Frau Benda".

Susanna Limbach 1836 Stadt-Theater Düsseldorf (with Elberfeld )

Mrs. Benda , Mr. Benda 1854 Stadt-Theater Düsseldorf

Hoftheater Oldenburg, built in 1842

Life

Susanna Limbach's parents, the actor Friedrich Heinrich Limbach and the singer Mathilde Auguste Hildebrandt, initially belonged to wandering theater companies ; at the time of the daughter's birth they were in Rudolstadt. In 1834 the theater director and writer Karl Immermann brought the couple to his "model stage", the Düsseldorf City Theater , and Susanna Limbach can also be traced back to 1836 and 1837 here. Just like her younger siblings Luise , Marie and Anton (children's roles) she appeared in Detmold in the court theater (1847 "second lovers and soubrettes"), 1848 in Oldenburg ( grand ducal court theater ), 1851 in Mainz . In 1852 she was found in Memel and Posen at the same time as her future husband, the opera singer Adolph Benda . His stage career can be traced on the basis of theater almanacs and newspaper magazines up to 1865 via Dessau , Danzig , Lübeck , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Magdeburg , Riga , Berlin , Stettin , Rostock to Freiburg . However, Susanna can only be identified as "Frau Benda" at the same time as him in Düsseldorf (1853/1854), in Oldenburg (1870/1871) as "Frau Susanne Benda, older roles and choir", only with "Fritz Benda" (children's roles) .

On June 27, 1900, the widowed Susanna Benda emigrated with her daughter Louise Benda-Baranyai (* 1854 in Düsseldorf, language and music teacher) and granddaughter Ilona B. Benda (* 1884, journalist and author) from their place of residence in Berlin via Hamburg with HAPAG -Steamer Belgravia to the USA.

Stage roles (selection)

• Johann, Hofer's boy in Andreas Hofer, the Sandwirth von Passeyer, tragedy by Immermann
• Fritz in civil and romantic, comedy by Bauernfeld
• First bridesmaid in Der Freischütz , opera by von Weber
• Molly Pitt in Martha or Der Markt zu Richmond , opera by von Flotow
• The Bride in Czar and Zimmermann , Lortzing Opera
• Margaretha's first lady of honor in Die Huguenots , opera by Meyerbeer
• Margaretha Kurl , chambermaid, in Maria Stuart , tragedy by Schiller
• Donna Fenisa in Donna Diana or Pride and Love, opera by Moreto / West (= Joseph Schreyvogel )
• Lady- in- waiting in Robert the Devil, opera by Meyerbeer
• Jette in A Shared-Expense Journey, comic painting by Angely
• Johanna in Hernani the Bandit or The Imperial Coronation of Carl V. Zu Aachen , opera by Hugo / Verdi
• Marquisin von Mondecar in Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller
• Mrs. von Pirau in Mother and Son of Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer
• Johanna in Die Valentine by Gustav Freytag
• Frau von Wachs Weich in On the ground floor and on the first floor or Die Laune des Glücks by Johann Nestroy

References and comments

1. ↑ Church book entry St. Johannes in Magdeburg from September 17, 1856 (marriage), Magdeburg State Archives, Wernigerode branch
2. ↑ according to "Heimatschein": Braunschweig, the birthplace of the father (at ancestry.de)
3. ↑ Texas Deaths at familysearch.com
4. ↑ Daughter of the Dresden theater prophet Franz Matthias Anton Hildebrandt (according to her death certificate at ancestry.de )
5. ↑ see also the biography of the actor Carl Theodor Müller: ( books.google.de ), p. 221 f.
6. ↑ see Immermanns Direktion in Eduard Devrient: History of German Drama . Volume 2. Verlag Langen Müller, 1967, pp. 219-234
7. ↑ Theater ticket Stadt-Theater Düsseldorf at ub uni-duesseldorf
8. ↑ z. E.g. in the yearbooks of Almanach for Friends of the Dramatic Art
9. ^ Carl Albert Sachse, Statistical Handbook for Stage Directors, Stage Artists and Stage Friends from 1854
10. ↑ Theater ticket Stadt-Theater Düsseldorf at ub uni-duesseldorf
11. ^ Ferdinand Roeder's theater calendar
12. ↑ Hamburg passenger lists at ancestry.de