Hedwig Raabe
Hedwig Raabe ( born December 3, 1844 in Magdeburg, † April 20, 1905 in Berlin, married Hedwig Niemann- Raabe ) was a German actress.
Life
She entered as a child (eg, as in Cilli Donauweibchen, as Infanta in Don Carlos ) the stage, came the age of 14 at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, where her uncle, the comedian Wilke, then worked, then to Stettin, where she won after a short time Franz Wallner for his theater in Berlin, and received in 1864 from temporary engagements in Mainz and Prague a permanent position in the German court theater at St. Petersburg, from where they undertook every summer concert tours to Germany.
In 1868 she gave up her commitment and guested then bill. In March 1871, she married the tenor and opera singer Albert Niemann and then led the double name Hedwig Niemann- Raabe. From 1883 she was a member of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
Her grave is for a reburial in 1939 to the southwest Stahnsdorf where she rests beside her husband.
Assessment
The artistic character of their presentation was a healthy, cheerful and beautiful realism; aptly she has in her early years, called a " representative of the Backfischtums in its ideal transfiguration " while they then especially in all the female characters of modern French repertoire made extraordinary. The critic Georg Brandes listed at the Berlin premiere of Ibsen's Nora in 1880:
" The Niemann- Raabe has more natural conditions to represent Nora's naive phase than any actress in the north. Despite her forty years she has not only a ravishing exterior and an infinitely expressive face, but seems overloaded with electrical energy. Where she goes and stands, lights and spray youth, life and love of life. She was irresistible, of course, as long as she was a child. "
Trivia
Like any actress who Raabe had many admirers, among them the young Friedrich Nietzsche, who addressed an enthusiastic letter to her in June 1866; but his enthusiasm apparently met with no reciprocal love. Wilhelm Weischedel writes:. " On another occasion he says from afar for an actress and sends her specially for them, sealed and composed songs into the house, a response he is certainly, as far as we know, is not appreciated "