Toni Wittels

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Toni Wittels (born Antonie W., born July 10, 1869 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † August 15, 1930 in Munich , German Empire ) was an Austro-German actress with a short but intense career in Bavarian silent film in the early years after the First World War.

Live and act

The banker's daughter and sister of the psychoanalyst Fritz Wittels had been active as a child and had appeared in fairy tales and as a poem reciter in private performances and festival events. After taking private acting lessons with Friedrich Krastel in her hometown of Vienna, Toni Wittels made her debut as a professional actress with the Hero (from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing ) in Prague in 1888 . Her early role subject was that of the sentimental. In 1893 Wittels followed an engagement at the Mannheim Court Theater (later: Nationaltheater) and was able to (in addition to again the Hero) other central female roles (including Gretchen in Faust , Klärchen, Desdemona in Othello , Ophelia in Hamlet , Miss Julie and the Rautendelein in Hauptmann's Die sunken Glocke ). Eisenberg wrote about Toni Wittels' early years: "The artist always knows herself to be one with the figures, which she sharply characterizes and who knows how to embody very credibly."

Toni Wittels remained connected to Mannheim for a total of 23 years. Toni Wittels was successful as a character interpreter in her later years in Mannheim, where she recently brought Carl Hagemann several times as a guest, as Alice in Strindberg's Dance of Death and as Mother Wolfen in Hauptmann's Der Biberpelz . In her last active years, from 1918 to 1925, she was engaged by the production company Emelka , based in her husband's hometown, Munich, for a number of spouse and mother roles. In the beginning, there were several Ganghofer film adaptations such as Der Jäger von Fall , Gewitter im Mai, Der Edelweißkönig, Der Ochsenkrieg , Der Klosterjäger, Der Mann im Salz and Die Trutz von Trutzberg . She also worked as an acting teacher in the Bavarian capital.

Toni Wittels was married to the Munich actor and councilor Franz Stury (1862–1929). She had met him during the time they both spent together in Mannheim and only survived him by exactly 15 months.

Filmography

  • 1918: The Hunter of Fall
  • 1919: The death of Phaleria
  • 1919: sinned out of love
  • 1919: Thunderstorm in May
  • 1919: The edelweiss king
  • 1920: The ox war
  • 1920: The monastery hunter
  • 1921: The man in the salt
  • 1921: The Cursed One
  • 1921: The eerie guest
  • 1921: The Trütze von Trutzberg
  • 1922: Dying Peoples, Two Parts
  • 1922: the big lie
  • 1922: About love and throne
  • 1922: Shadow children of happiness
  • 1923: The way to light
  • 1923: Maciste and the Chinese chest
  • 1923: two people
  • 1923: To honor a woman
  • 1924: love life
  • 1924: A song sounds from my youth
  • 1925: It is written in the stars

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the Stage, Leipzig 1903. P. 72
  • Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch born 1931, obituary on p. 125

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ANNO, Neue Freie Presse, 1887-01-12, page 14. Retrieved on June 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Eisenberg incorrectly names the year "1878"
  3. ↑ Eisenberg, p. 72

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personal data
SURNAME Wittels, Toni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German stage and silent film actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1930
Place of death Munich , German Empire