Adele Sandrock
Adèle Caroline Sandrock ( born August 19, 1863 in Rotterdam, † August 30, 1937 in Berlin) was a Dutch- German actress.
Adele Sandrock was the third child of the German merchant Eduard Othello Sandrock (1834-1897) and the Dutch actress Johanna Simonetta ten Hagen ( 1833-1917 ). She grew up with her two siblings Christian Sandrock and Wilhelmine Sandrock to Rotterdam and Berlin.
As a young girl Adele hardly interested for the school. She loved her mother the theater and was even dismissed from school due to unexcused absence. In 1878 she made her debut at the Berlin suburb Urania Theatre in the role of Selma in the comedy Mother and Son by Charlotte Birch -Pfeiffer.
In a theater in Berlin, she learned the Meininger know and was fascinated by their way of playing. She drove with borrowed money to Meiningen, spoke there in front of the role of Luise in Schiller's Kabale und Liebe and received a three -year contract. This was followed by further engagements including in Moscow, Wiener Neustadt, Budapest. Even Adolph L' Arronge, theater director and playwright, was impressed by her talent.
Vienna and Berlin
Her breakthrough came in 1889 with the main role of Isabella in the case Clemenceau by Alexandre Dumas and Armand d' Artois at the Theater an der Wien. Her strengths included from the beginning to modern roles ( Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Schnitzler ).
From 1889 to 1895 she played at the German National Theatre in Vienna. She learned in 1893 the poet Arthur Schnitzler know and chatted with him a close relationship, for two years the two were lovers. The relationship was characterized by a constant change of moods and settings. Used in his works The Dance of Youth, half Two and house Delorme Schnitzler his memories of Adele Sandrock. Your intimate correspondence was published in book form.
In Vienna Sandrock became the star of the stage and caused by their turbulent personal lives and their breaches of contract for some scandals. The writer Alexander Roda Roda was temporarily her fiance. From 1895 to 1898 she was like her older sister Wilhelmine Sandrock at the Burgtheater active. About her exit writes Hugo Thimig on October 16, 1898 in his diary: "We have for a change a sand rock affair. Adelchen that has probably budget requests from Berlin intends to continue making on the basis of mendacious Scandal. She claimed in Schnitzler 's ' legacy ' to have received allotted to the mother of Hohenfels. But you got a lady of 36 years, mother of Medelsky ( in which they 'Wild Duck ' yes was already ). , And a proportion will be credited to a younger man Then she is enraged that she does not play the ' Virgin '! That takes a glance at Miss Sandrock no farther Commentars " And on 20 October: ". Miss. Adele Sandrock was released on her rude request from the Association of the Burgtheater. Despite their strong talent, she was not a win for us. "After a European tour she appeared from 1902 to 1905 again at the German National Theatre in Vienna, but was unable to repeat her previous great success.
In 1905 she moved to Berlin, where they played until 1910 at the Deutsches Theater of Max Reinhardt. Since that time, there was a kink in her career.
Movie star
From 1911 she took leading roles in silent films. In 1920, she celebrated on stage for the first time greater success and played primarily in comedies (eg, by Oscar Wilde) with strong pathos the comic old, coined the type of hard-headed in-law or grandmother or the tyrannical old lady. In the talkies she could live out her comic talent from 1930 and was for posterity by famous than by their successful theater roles. Your distinctive tinny deep voice because she was also called " the General ".
End of life and funeral
Adele Sandrock remained unmarried all his life. She lived until recently with her sister Wilhelmine in an apartment in Berlin- Charlottenburg, Leibnizstr. 60, in which she died on 30 August 1937, the aftermath of a 1936 accident suffered. On September 4, 1937 an official memorial service took place in the Berlin theater place in the Saarland road, was the transfer of the coffin to Vienna in the presence of Wilhelmine Sandrock after. The existing of three cars Überführungskondukt made on his way from Berlin to Vienna on September 6, 1937 on the main square of Linz for an hour station, which caused the attention of many passers-by.
At the public lying in state on September 7 at the Church of Matzleinsdorf cemetery in Vienna was on the catafalque Adele's coffin beside another that contained the remains of the father, the mother and the aunt who buried up to their exhumation on the previous day in a family grave had been. According testamentary disposal of Adele Sandrock her father and mother ( 40 and 20 years previously deceased) were interred next to her in a purchased from Wilhelmine Sandrock tomb.
In the invited guests reserved for funeral ceremony on September 8, 1937 by representatives of the official of Austria, the German Empire and the Netherlands from the artistic life, inter alia Else Wohlgemuth, Otto Tressler, Paul Morgan and Jack Trevor were present. Ex-Emperor Wilhelm and Chancellor Hitler had sent wreaths. On Adele's coffin was a large floral cross with the inscription: "I was faithful to you until death, Your loving sister Lucy ." At the grave, inter alia, the Burgtheater director Hermann Röbbeling, Serious Nadherny, Josefine Kramer Hunchback and Heinz Hanus spoke words of remembrance.
The location of the grave site in the cemetery is described with group 18, tomb 165
Fame
Adele Sandrock is still many cinema and theater lovers a term and stands in line with other large people actors, such as Heinz Riihmann or Hans Moser. Other actresses similar type are often compared with her. So they called the comparable eccentric British actress Margaret Rutherford in Germany often the "English Adele Sandrock ".
After Adele Sandrock have been named, inter alia, roads ( in Berlin- Heller village, for example, Adele Sandrock Road ). In the 1960s and 1970s, Adele Sandrock - Studio Baden- Baden produced, inter alia, literary speech plates.
List of theater credits
- Alexandre Dumas the Younger The Lady of the Camellias ( Marguerite Gautier role of )
- Francillon ( role of Francillon )
- Sappho (the role of Sappho )
- Medea (the role of Medea )
- Zaza (the role of Zaza )
- Feodora ( role of Feodora )
- Intrigue and Love (the role of Louise and the Lady Milford )
- Mary Stuart ( role of Mary Stuart )
- The Tale ( role of Fanny Theren )
- Flirtation ( role of Christine )