Early life
Camille Eibenschütz was from Bavaria, the daughter of pianist and music professor Albert Eibenschütz and Anna Theresa Rosa Knorr. Hungarian pianist Ilona Eibenschütz was her father's cousin.Career
Camilla Eibenschütz was the first actress to play "Wendla" in Frank Wedekind's controversial ''Frühlings Erwachen'' (''Spring Awakening'') in Berlin in 1906. In 1907 she played Juliet in Max Reinhardt's ''Romeo and Juliet'', opposite Alexander Moissi. She also played Ophelia, Viola, and Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Titania in Reinhardt's Shakespeare productions. Albert von Keller painted her as Myrrhine in ''Lysistrata'' in 1909. On Broadway, she starred in Reinhardt's pantomime ''Sumurun'' in 1912, with Leopoldine Konstantin, Emil Lind, and other European actors. She was in ''Blue Bird'' in Berlin in 1912, and in ''The Yellow Jacket'' in Berlin in 1914. Eibenschütz was known as a collector of art, to decorate her two residences, a country home at Bogensberglehen and a villa at Dahlem (Berlin), Dahlem.Personal life
Camilla Eibenschütz married twice; first, briefly, to Polish dramatist Ryszard Ordynski in 1913,"Host of Tourists Invading Berlin" ''New York Times'' (August 17, 1913): 2. and later to newspaper publisher Dr. (1889–1966). They had a son, Andreas Michael Huck (born 1919). She died in 1958, aged 75 years. Her grave is in Offenbach am Main, with other members of the Huck family.References
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