Agnes Straub

Agnes Josephine Straub ( born April 2, 1890 in Munich, † July 8, 1941 in Berlin- Charlottenburg) was a German actress.

Life and work

Agnes Straub was the first time thirteen years in a Dachau open-air performance on the stage. Then she received acting lessons at eighteen her first engagement as Sappho in Franz Grillparzer's drama of the same name. It was followed by engagements in Bonn, Königsberg, Berlin and Vienna.

In Berlin, she quickly became a celebrated star of the stage - in the category of Elisabeth Bergner and Grete Mosheim. She played at the Berlin State Theatre ( with Leopold Jessner ), Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Volksbühne Berlin, Deutsches Theater, the Schiller Theatre, Rose Theatre, Little Theatre, etc. Each theater director was happy when she sang with him, for her performance guaranteed full houses.

From 1925 she worked mostly with her then-boyfriend, the Jewish director and actor Leo Reuss. In order to protect him better, she founded the early 1930s, the Agnes Straub Theatre, which was later continued as Theater am Kurfürstendamm. Same time, both made ​​guest appearances with her ensemble at theaters throughout the German-speaking countries as " Agnes Straub Ensemble".

After a theater scandal in Stralsund in Germany Reuss got banned from working and had to emigrate soon. Three years later, Agnes Straub had a serious car accident that her career to an abrupt end and its sequelae she died three years later.

Their legacy is today the " Agnes Straub Foundation " in Gries im Pinzgau, a recreation and vacation home for entertainers. Your grave site is located in the cemetery of St. Georgen in Bruck an der Grossglockner road, state of Salzburg.

Theater roles (selection)

  • Berta - Sappho (Franz Grillparzer )
  • Lady Milford - Kabale und Liebe ( Friedrich Schiller)
  • Medea - Medea (Franz Grillparzer )
  • Hedda - Hedda Gabler ( Henrik Ibsen )
  • " Caroline Neuber " - in the drama " The Neuberin " by Günter way Born

Filmography

Silent Films (selection)

Sound films

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