Auguste Sophie Crelinger (widowed Stich, born Düring (7 October 1795 – 11 April 1865) was a German stage actress.

Life

Born in Berlin, Düring gained her first stage experience as a child with the theatre company ''Urania''. On the occasion of one of these performances she also made the acquaintance of Princess Charlotte von Hardenberg (former actress Langenthal). The latter applied to the theatre director August Wilhelm Iffland for Düring and after her successful debut on 4 May 1812 as Margarete (''Die Hagestolzen''), she was engaged and remained a member of the royal court theatre there until her last performance. In 1817, Düring married the actor Wilhelm Stich (1794-1824) and had two daughters with him: Bertha (1818-1876) and Clara (1820-1865), both of whom also went to the stage, and two sons, including Gustav (1822-1848), who died of liver disease at the age of 26 in Bombay, East India. Stich died under tragic circumstances. Gebhard Bernhard Carl Blücher von Wahlstatt (1799-1875), a grandson of the famous Feldherrn, was a second lieutenant in the Guard Hussars and had a rendezvous with Auguste Stich on 6 February 1823, as he wanted to say goodbye to her before a long journey. In the stairwell, he met her husband, whom he injured with his dagger after a brief heated argument. Blücher was sentenced to three years' imprisonment which he served at the Wisłoujście Fortress. Whether there was actually a sexual relationship between the officer Blücher and Auguste Stich is unclear. When Stich returned to the stage as "Thecla" on 8 May of the same year, she was already pre-judged by the audience and booed as an adulteress. To escape this, she travelled to Paris with her husband in early 1824, where she met, among others François-Joseph Talma. According to statements by

Ludwig Rellstab Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Rellstab (13 April 179927 November 1860) was a German poet and music critic. He was born and died in Berlin. He was the son of the music publisher and composer Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab. An able pianist, he publi ...

(Nothgedrungene Berichtigung), the actor Wilhelm Heinrich Stich died of an infected spleen. In her second marriage, the widowed Auguste Stich married the railway and insurance entrepreneur in Berlin, whose parents - Johann Jacob Crelinger (1753-1837) and Henriette Wilhelmine Charlotte Catherina Crelinger (1774-1826), ''née'' Philippsborn -, had great reservations about this marriage. Only after the death of Crelinger's mother in December 1826 was the couple able to become engaged on 31 January 1827; the marriage took place on 23 April 1827. The relationship with Crelinger enabled the actress to go on educational trips, including to Paris and Saint Petersburg; their house in Berlin became a centre of socialising. A daughter they had together from this marriage, Johanne Henriette Emilie Auguste Crelinger (1828-1900), married the lawyer and later district administrator of the in Silesia, Alexander Groschke (1821-1871). From the estate of the music teacher Clara Groschke, a now lost portrait ''Auguste Crelinger as the Maid of Orleans'' (1818) by

Friedrich Georg Weitsch Friedrich Georg Weitsch (8 August 1758, Braunschweig – 30 May 1828, Berlin) was a German painter and etcher. Life and work His father, Pascha Johann Friedrich Weitsch, was a well-known artist. His younger brother, , also became a painter. ...

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in 1925. Around 1839/1840,

Auguste von Bärndorf Auguste von Bärndorf (complete name: von Bärndorff von Bauerhorst) (11 March 1823 – 8 March 1911) was a German stage actress.Hugo Thielen: ''Bärndorf(f) von Bauerhorst, Auguste von.'' In ''Hannoversches Biographisches ...'' (see literature) ...

was a pupil of Crelinger. After Crelinger celebrated her 50th anniversary at the Berlin Hofbühne in 1862, she retired to private life. She died in Berlin in 1865 at the age of 69 and was buried in the Cemetery II of the Jerusalems- und Neue Kirche in front of the Hallesches Tor there. The grave is not preserved. Hans-Jürgen Mende: ''Lexikon Berliner Begräbnisstätten''. Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, , .

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* Iphigenie – ''

Iphigenie auf Tauris ''Iphigenia in Tauris'' (german: Iphigenie auf Tauris, links=no) is a reworking by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of the ancient Greek tragedy Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις ('' Iphigeneia en Taurois'') by Euripides. Euripides' title means ...

'' (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) * Antigone – '' Antigone'' ( Sophocles) * Prinzessin von Este – '' Tasso'' (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) * Sappho – ''

Sappho Sappho (; el, Σαπφώ ''Sapphō'' ; Aeolic Greek ''Psápphō''; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her Greek lyric, lyric poetry, written to be sung while ...

'' ( Franz Grillparzer) * Phädra – '' Phèdre'' ( Jean Racine) * Gräfin Orsina – ''

Emilia Galotti ''Emilia Galotti'' () is a play in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), which premiered on 8 March 1772 in Brunswick ("Braunschweig" in German). The work is a classic example of German '' bürgerliches Trauerspiel'' (bourgeois ...

'' (

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (, ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and a representative of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the developmen ...

) * Gräfin Terzky – '' Wallensteins Tod'' (

Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friends ...

) * Maria Stuart – '' Maria Stuart'' (Friedrich Schiller) * Adelheid – '' Götz von Berlichingen'' ( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) * Lady Macbeth – ''

Macbeth ''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those w ...

'' ( William Shakespeare) * Margarete – ''Die Hagestolzen'' ( August Wilhelm Iffland) * Jeanne d'Arc – '' Die Jungfrau von Orléans'' (Friedrich Schiller) * Rosette – ''Schweizermädchen'' (

Gottlob Benedict Bierey Gottlob Benedict Bierey (25 July 1772 – 5 May 1840) was a German composer, Kapellmeister and Theatre tenant. Life Born in Dresden, Bierey was a pupil of Christian Ehregott Weinlig. As soon as 1788, he became music director of the Karl Theoph ...

) * Medea – '' Das goldene Vlies'' (Franz Grillparzer)

Students

, Elise Bethge-Truhn

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