Camilla Eibenschütz (July 20, 1884 – July 12, 1958) was a German stage actress.

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

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's controversial ''

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'' (''Spring Awakening'') in Berlin in 1906. In 1907 she played Juliet in

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's ''Romeo and Juliet'', opposite

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. She also played

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, Viola, and Titania in Reinhardt's Shakespeare productions.

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painted her as Myrrhine in ''

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'' in 1909. On Broadway, she starred in Reinhardt's

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''Sumurun'' in 1912, with

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, 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.

Personal life

Camilla Eibenschütz married twice; first, briefly, to Polish dramatist

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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

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, with other members of the Huck family.

References

External links

A photograph of Camille Eibenschütz
in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, Photograph File, New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Camilla Eibenschütz listing at IBDB.

Camilla Eibenschutz listing at Billion Graves.
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