Charlotte von Hagn
Charlotte von Hagn ( born March 23, 1809 in Munich, † April 23, 1891 ibid ) was a German actress of the Biedermeier period.
Hagn was the daughter of the businessman Karl von Hagn and his wife Josepha Schwab. Her younger brother was the painter Ludwig von Hagn.
She found already at their first appearance at the Munich Court Theatre in 1828 the applause of the audience, was immediately engaged and guest appearances from here with very great success at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Dresden, Berlin and Budapest.
From 1833 to 1846 she was a member of the Berlin Court Theatre. She kicked repeatedly in Saint Petersburg, Hamburg, Budapest and other cities, and was at all stages an acclaimed appearance. Her talent was based preferably on a lush natural disposition for the Graceful - Neckische and Schalk -stick -tempered; she was especially in comedy and conversation piece enchanting. Even in St. Petersburg and later in Germany it was in competition with her colleague Caroline Bauer, who played at the theater in Dresden. The theater audience was divided depending on the following in " Hagnianer " and " Bauerianer ". Much less appropriated her talent for tragic roles. Your witty and funny ideas and Impromptus in social life have their gives the epithet of the " German Déjazet ".
In the spring of 1848, she married the landowner Alexander von Oven and stepped back from the stage, but the marriage was divorced in 1851. She had an affair with Franz Liszt, who called her concubine of two kings, as they should have had an affair with the Bavarian King Ludwig I.. He let them portray his court painter Joseph Karl Stieler in 1828 for its beauty gallery.
After her divorce, Charlotte von Hagn lived for a time in Gotha, later in Munich, where she died April 23, 1891. She was buried as Charlotte von Oven at the Old South Cemetery. Her grave has been preserved ( grave site: 19-4-26 ).
Roles (selection)
- Afanasia - Count Benyowszky or conspiracy in Kamchatka ( August von Kotzebue )
- Jeanne - The Maid of Orléans ( Friedrich Schiller)
- Juliet - Romeo and Juliet ( William Shakespeare)
- Walpurgis - goldsmith's daughter (Carl Loewe )
- Hedwig of Gildern - The ball of Ellerbrunn (Carl Blum)
- Mirandolina - Mirandolina (Carlo Goldoni )
- Donna Diana - Donna Diana ( Agustín Moreto )
- Olga - Isidor and Olga or the serfs (Ernst Raupach )
- Baroness Holmbach - Still Waters Run Deep ( Friedrich Ludwig Schröder )
- Louise - Kabale und Liebe ( Friedrich Schiller)