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

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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

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(former actress Langenthal). The latter applied to the theatre director

August Wilhelm Iffland August Wilhelm Iffland (19 April 175922 September 1814) was a German actor and dramatic author. Life Born in Hanover, his father intended him to be a clergyman, but Iffland preferred the stage, and at eighteen ran away to Gotha in order to pre ...

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:

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(1818-1876) and

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(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

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, 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

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. 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 François Joseph Talma (15 January 1763 – 19 October 1826) was a French actor. Life He was born in Paris. His father, a dentist, moved to London, and saw that his son received a good English education. François Joseph returned to Paris, whe ...

. According to statements by

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(Nothgedrungene Berichtigung), the actor Wilhelm Heinrich Stich died of an infected

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. 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

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, 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

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came into the Berlin

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in 1925. Around 1839/1840,

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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

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there. The grave is not preserved.

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: ''Lexikon Berliner Begräbnisstätten''. Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, , .

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

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) * Margarete – ''Die Hagestolzen'' (

) * Jeanne d'Arc – '' Die Jungfrau von Orléans'' (Friedrich Schiller) * Rosette – ''Schweizermädchen'' (

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

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