Alwina Clara Hedwig Meyer (7 October 1841 – after 1916) was a German stage actress.
Life
Born in Leipzig, Meyer was trained by
Minona Frieb-Blumauer
Minona Frieb-Blumauer (11 May 1816 – 31 July 1886) was a German actress and singer.
Life
Born in Stuttgart, Minona (''actually Johanna'') Frieb-Blumauer was the daughter of the actor Karl Blumauer, with whom she received her first lessons ...
. Afterwards, she worked for three years as a young lover at the
Thalia Theatre in
Hamburg
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before she moved to the
Wallnertheater in Vienna. She worked at several theatres in Berlin and in 1890, she got an engagement at the
Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where she stayed until 1894, playing mainly . After several engagements at bigger theatres in Northern Germany, she retired from the stage in 1897. After that she lived married in Berlin.
Her siblings were the actors
Clara Meyer and
Adolf Meyer.
Further reading
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Ludwig Eisenberg: ''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 ...
publishing house, Leipzig 1903, pp. 670 f.,
Hedwig Meyer.
References
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German stage actresses
1841 births
Date of death unknown
Actors from Leipzig