Thessa Klinkhammer

Thessa Klinkhammer and Eugen Staegemann at the Frankfurt Theater in the 1880s

Thessa Klinkhammer , actually Thessalia (born October 8, 1859 in Orawitz , Banat , † November 21, 1934 in Frankfurt am Main ), was a German actress .

life and work

Klinkhammer was the daughter of a chief engineer of the Imperial and Royal State Railways . After training with Leo Friedrich , she made her debut at the Sigmaringen court theater in 1877 as Madeleine in The Archetype of Tartüffe by Karl Gutzkow . In 1878 she went to the Berlin Residenztheater , which was directed by Emil Claar from 1876 to 1879 . In 1879 she moved to the Dresden Court Theater . When Claar became director of the United City Theater in Frankfurt am Main , he brought Klinkhammer to his stage in 1880. There she appeared in roles as a youthful naive and lover. In 1887 she moved to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg , and later to Berlin. After guest tours, she returned to the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus in 1896, where she now appeared mainly in character roles as a salon lady , mother and comical old woman. She was very popular with the Frankfurt audience because of her naturalness and her sonorous voice. In 1896 she founded a theater school in Frankfurt. Mathilde Einzig and Anny Hannewald were among her students .

On her golden stage anniversary on April 11, 1931, she gave her farewell performance in Bunbury by Oscar Wilde .

Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 402 .
Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 985, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).