Wilhelmine Korn
Wilhelmine Korn , née Wilhelmine Stephanie , (born December 17, 1786 in Vienna , † December 13, 1843 in Hietzing ) was an Austrian theater actress.
Life
The daughter of the well-known actor Gottlieb Stephanie and his wife Anna, née Mika, became orphans at an early age. After being discovered by Betty Roose and Johann Franz Brockmann , she performed herself from 1802, initially in small roles on the court stage. Her first role was as "Elisabeth" in the play Count of Burgundy .
She married Maximilian Korn , also an actor , on March 12, 1806 .
She earned particular fame for her interpretation of "Melitta" in Franz Grillparzer's Sappho , her first tragedy role. There is an anecdote about this that, at the suggestion of her husband and Sophie Schröder , she learned an artificial way of speaking for the role, and only found out from Grillparzer during the dress rehearsal that he did not like her interpretation. Then she performed the text for the first time in natural speech.
She ended her first stage career in 1819 with a Viennese premiere of Nathan the Wise in the role of "Recha" because she suffered seizures. Although she eventually stepped back on stage, she no longer played teenage lovers, but instead took on the role of the more mature chaperone. In 1831 she finally retired.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Korn, Wilhelmine . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1864, p. 463 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 533 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Elisabeth Pablé: Korn Wilhelmine. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 130.
Individual evidence
- ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 274.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Korn, Wilhelmine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stephanie, Wilhelmine (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian theater actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1786 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1843 |
| Place of death | Hietzing |