Hedwig Pringsheim (born Gertrud Hedwig Anna Dohm; 13 July 1855 – 27 July 1942) was a German
actress
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...
.
Born in
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...
, she was the daughter of
Ernst Dohm and
Hedwig Dohm-Schleh, who were Jewish converts to Christianity. She married
Alfred Pringsheim
Alfred Pringsheim (2 September 1850 – 25 June 1941) was a German mathematician and patron of the arts. He was the father-in-law of the author and Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann.
Family and academic career
Pringsheim was born in Ohlau, Prov ...
. They had 5 children: Erich Pringsheim, Peter Pringsheim,
Heinz Pringsheim,
Klaus Pringsheim Sr. and
Katia Pringsheim who married
Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novell ...
.
Pringsheim died in
Zurich
Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...
at the age of 87.
Works
* ''
Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman
''Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman'' (; ''The Manns – Novel of a Century'') is a 2001 German Docudrama-miniseries directed by Heinrich Breloer.
The miniseries is divided in three parts and tells the story of the Mann family, a family of famou ...
''
See also
*
Dohm–Mann family tree
External links
Die Manns und kein Ende: Katias Mutter - Kultur - Printarchiv - Berliner Morgenpostat www.morgenpost.de
Familie Mann revisited - Walter und Inge Jens legen die Biografie Hedwig Pringsheims vor : literaturkritik.deat www.literaturkritik.de
1855 births
1942 deaths
20th-century German women
Actresses from Berlin
German stage actresses
Jewish German actresses
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Switzerland
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