Elise Bethge-Truhn, born Anna Marie Elisabeth Truhn (4 March 1838 – 12 January 1889) was a German actress and playwright.
Life
Born in Berlin, Bethge-Truhn, the daughter of the royal music director
Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn
Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn (14 November 1811 – 30 April 1886) was a German conductor, composer and writer on music who worked mainly in Berlin, Danzig, Elbing and Riga. He was the son of court marshall Nathanael Truhn and the grandfather of S ...
, who had no objection to his daughter turning to the stage, first took acting lessons with
Auguste Crelinger
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 occas ...
, then with
Sophie Schröder in Hamburg, and entered the stage for the first time in 1854 in Stettin. In 1855, she worked at the city theatre in Riga, and in 1856 at the court theatre in Schwerin. In Schwerin itself she appeared on 2 December 1875 as Britta in the play ''Karin von Schweden'', which she had written herself.
She gained a good reputation not only as a stage artist but also as a playwright.
Bethge-Truhn died in Lübeck at the age of 50.
Work
* ''Karin von Schweden'', first performance on 2 December 1875 in Schwerin
* ''Die Reise durchs Märchenland'',
''Die Reise durch's Märchenland eine Weihnachtskomödie mit Musik und Ballett''
on WorldCat first performance on 25 December 1882 at Kroll in Berlin
* ''Die Schutzgeister'', first performed in Lübeck on 20 December 1886
* ''Marlitta'', first performed on 11 January 1889 in Schwerin
Further reading
* Ludwig Eisenberg Ludwig Eisenberg may refer to:
* Lale Sokolov (né Ludwig Eisenberg, 1916–2006), Austro-Hungarian-born Slovak-Australian businessman and Holocaust survivor
* Ludwig Eisenberg (writer) (1858–1910), Austrian writer and encyclopedist
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: ''Großes biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert''. Paul List
Pawel M. List ( he, פאול ליסט, russian: Павел Лист; Odessa, 9 September 1887 – London? 1954) was a Russian Jewish chess player, who emigrated to Britain in 1937 but never took British citizenship.
He was born in Odessa, Ukr ...
publisher, Leipzig 1903, .
References
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German stage actresses
1838 births
1889 deaths
Actresses from Berlin
Actresses from the Kingdom of Prussia