Zerlina Gabillon

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Zerlina Gabillon, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1855

Zerline Gabillon (born August 19, 1834 in Güstrow as Zerline Würzburg , † April 30, 1892 in Meran ) was a German-Austrian actress and translator.

Life

Gabillon was the daughter of a Jewish cloth merchant from Güstrow in Mecklenburg . Her parents had a shop on Güstrower Markt. She has been enthusiastic about the theater since she was a child and occasionally appeared at school celebrations as a pupil. When her parents were looking for a job for her, she became aware of Chéri Maurice , director of the Hamburg Thalia Theater .

He hired her and so Zerlina Gabillon was able to successfully debut as "Parthenia" with Maurice on August 14, 1850. During her three-year contract, she also received acting lessons from actress Adele Perroni . Then she moved to the court theater in Dresden . There she met Heinrich Laube , who hired her to work at the Burgtheater in Vienna . There she was seen for the first time on May 8, 1853 as the "Maid of Orleans".

On June 27, 1856, Gabillon married her colleague Ludwig Gabillon , who was also from Güstrow, in Vienna . The couple had two daughters: Dora (* 1850) and Helene (* 1857). Dora married the historian August Fournier , Helene the literary scholar and writer Anton Bettelheim . Helene Bettelheim-Gabillon worked as a writer and graphic designer. Dorothea's daughter Christine Olden , her granddaughter, was a well-known psycho and child analyst.

Zerline Gabillon (1870): Mrs Gabillon in a costume with a lace stand-up collar, Mosenthal kneels at her feet ( Heliogravure by Karel Klíč ).
Tomb of Zerlina Gabillon

Gabillon fell ill in the winter of 1890/91. A cure in Merano did not bring the hoped-for recovery. She was able to make a few appearances in 1891, but hardly appeared again in 1891 due to illness. She was seen on stage for the last time on December 10, 1891 in the play The Dream, a Life . On March 1, 1892, she went to Meran again on cure and died there on April 30 of the same year. She found her final resting place on May 5, 1892 in the evangelical cemetery in Vienna-Matzleinsdorf (crypt center above, no. 034).

The Gabillon couple often stayed in Gößl in Styria in the summer . Here they often met their friends, the Mautner couple, the industrialist Isidor Mautner and his wife Jenny, who was known as a patron of the arts . The family house on the Opernring was considered a social center of Vienna.

Honors

  • In 1920 Gabillongasse in Vienna- Ottakring (16th district) was named after her and her husband Ludwig.

Roles (selection)

She often played female schemers and intriguing women, because of her pointed speech and her red hair she was predestined for these roles. According to Laube - director of the Burgtheater - she has "found a class of hot ladies in modern plays that she has to fill".

Roles as 'hot lady'

Works

  • Alfred de Musset : A whim. Comedy in one act . Rosner, Vienna 1878 (translated into German by Zerline Gabillon).

literature

Web links

Commons : Zerline Gabillon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ year of birth according to ADB; different in other sources: 1835.
  2. ↑ Rostock exhibition honors well-known Güstrowers ( memento from October 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) accessed January 23, 2009
  3. ^ Website “The unemployed from Marienthal” accessed January 23, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Gabillon, Zerlina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Würzburg, Zerlina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian actress and translator
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1892
Place of death Meran