Wilhelmine Corinth
Wilhelmine "Mine" Corinth (born June 13, 1909 in Berlin ; † May 31, 2001 in New York City ), later Wilhelmine Corinth-Klopfer , was a German- American actress and author . She was the daughter of the painter Lovis Corinth and his wife Charlotte Berend-Corinth .
Life
Wilhelmine “Mine” Corinth, who was named in honor of her paternal grandmother, was baptized 6 months after her birth in Corinth's studio in Berlin's Klopstockstrasse. She was the couple's second child after her brother five years older. Like Thomas, Wilhelmine became her father's regular motif for numerous watercolors, drawings and etchings as well as for 13 oil paintings.
Wilhelmine studied at the Academy of Arts in Berlin and in her mother's painting class after her father's death. She subsequently became a stage actress and played in theaters in Hanover and Darmstadt together with Karl Schönböck , Elisabeth Flickenschildt , Lilli Palmer and Brigitte Horney . On June 28, 1933, she was dismissed as a quarter Jew at the Darmstadt State Theater and was banned from working . In her first marriage she married the engineer Hanns Hecker and had three children with him, the sons Michael and Georg and the daughter Katharina. They spent the Second World War together in Hamburg and in 1948 Wilhelmine followed her mother and brother to New York City. In 1949 the autobiographical novel Six Years, written during the war years, was published.
In 1950 their marriage was divorced, in 1952 they married the engineer Hans Klopfer, who died in 1962. Since 1965 she was in a relationship with the tenor and tournament dancer Russell Palin. After her mother died in 1967 and her brother in 1988, she took over the administration of her parents' artistic estate and arranged exhibitions both in the USA and in Germany. In 1983 she published the novel The Ferry Woman. The passionate life of Marie Grubbe , who described the life story of Marie Grubbe as a femme fatale of the baroque period . In 1990 the book I have a Lovis, no father ... memories, written together with the journalist Helga Schalkhäuser , was published . Wilhelmine Corinth died five days after her last partner, Russell Palin.
Fonts
- For six years , Südverlag, Hamburg 1949.
- The ferrywoman. The passionate life of Marie Grubbe , Luebbe Publishing Group, 1984, ISBN 3-7857-0368-6 .
- I have a Lovis, not a father ... Memories , Ullstein, 1992, ISBN 3-548-22895-X .
literature
- Hannes Heer ; Sven Fritz; Heike Brummer; Jutta Zwilling: Silent voices: the expulsion of the "Jews" and "politically intolerable" from the Hessian theaters 1933 to 1945 . Berlin: Metropol, 2011 ISBN 978-3-86331-013-4 p. 211.
Web links
- Silke Osman: Artistic legacy preserved. For Wilhelmine Corinth's 90th birthday. The East Prussia Gazette of June 12, 1999.
- Paid Notice: Deaths: Klopfer, Wilhelmine C. The New York Times, June 3, 2001.
Individual evidence
- ^ Lovis Corinth: My early years , p. 6
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Corinth, Wilhelmine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berend, Charlotte; Hecker-Corinth, mine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American actress and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 2001 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York , United States |