Terka Csillag
Terka Csillag , nee Terka Braun (born July 9, 1867 in Kaposvár , Somogy County , Austria-Hungary , † 1943 in the Theresienstadt Ghetto , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ) was a Hungarian actress .
Life
Terka Csillag began her theater career immediately after her 15th birthday, on July 17, 1882. Almost two years later she moved to Berlin, where she took up an engagement at the Residenztheater. Further stages were Hanover , Königsberg , Cologne , Posen , Dresden (1899, where Theodor Lobe gave her lessons), Chemnitz , Essen , Aachen , Brussels and finally Bochum . There Terka Csillag was almost the entire time of the Weimar Republic , from 1919 to 1932, a member of the ensemble of the theater , directed by Saladin Schmitt . Csillag's early successes included her interpretations of "Lady Milford", "Iphigenia", "Medea", "Sappho", "Feodora" and "Lady Macbeth"; in later years Terka Csillag easily grew into the character subject.
On the occasion of her 50th anniversary on the stage in July 1932, when she was seen in the play " Der Feldherrnhügel ", the 65-year-old artist announced her retirement from acting. During the Second World War , the Jewish ex-actress was forcibly quartered in the building at Horst-Wessel-Strasse 56 in Bochum, Germany, until May 1942, which the National Socialists had declared a “ Jewish house ”. Then, for the last few weeks before her deportation , Terka Csillag was transferred to the formerly Jewish school at Wilhelmstrasse 16, which was also converted into a “Jewish house”. From there, she and other Bochum Jews were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the same year. In this ghetto, Terka Csillag took her own life - probably the following year - presumably with an overdose of veronal .
On November 4, 2004 in Bochum, the city of her greatest triumphs, a stumbling stone was set in the sidewalk to commemorate Terka Csillag .
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 170, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 83.
Web links
- Terka Csillag on bochum.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ some sources are based on 1942
- ↑ Terka Csillag in Hubert Schneider: The "de-Judaization" of living space - "Jewish houses" in Bochum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Csillag, Terka |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Braun, Terka (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaposvár , Somogy County , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1943 |
| Place of death | Theresienstadt ghetto , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia |