Paula Conrad-Schlenther (née Conrad; 27 February 1860 – 9 August 1938) was an Austrian-German stage actress.
Life
Paula Conrad made her debut in 1877 in
Baden bei Wien
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. From 1877 she was a member of the ensemble at the
Königlichen Schauspielhaus in Berlin. She played Hannele in the 1983 world premiere of
Gerhart Hauptmann's ''
Hanneles Himmelfahrt
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''.
Alfred Kerr
Alfred Kerr (''né'' Kempner; 25 December 1867 – 12 October 1948, surname: ) was an influential German theatre critic and essayist of Jewish descent, nicknamed the ''Kulturpapst'' ("Culture Pope").
Biography
Youth
Kerr was born in Breslau ...
recalls the premiere three decades later, admiring Conrad and stating "''blieb sie in jedem Sinn die erste"'' ("she remained in every sense the first").
In 1892, Conrad married
Paul Schlenther, the theater critic of the ''
Vossische Zeitung
The (''Voss's Newspaper'') was a nationally known Berlin newspaper that represented the interests of the liberal middle class. It was also generally regarded as Germany's national newspaper of record. In the Berlin press it held a special role d ...
'' and later director of the Vienna
Burgtheater
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,
and she worked for him in Vienna from 1898 to 1910, after which she returned to the
Schauspielhaus Berlin
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, remaining there until 1932. Conrad was primarily a performer of Hauptmann's works, playing roles such as Frau Flamm in ''
Rose Bernd'' at its 1903 premiere and Aase in
Henrik Ibsen's ''
Peer Gynt
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''Peer Gynt'' chronicles the journey of its title character fr ...
''. She also shortly appeared in silent films. Her grave is located at Berlin's
Urnenfriedhof Gerichtstraße, an urn cemetery.
Filmography
* 1920: ''Die Verschleierte''
* 1921: ''Die Furcht vor dem Weibe''
* 1923:
''Der verlorene Schuh''
* 1924:
''Mein Leopold''
References
Further reading
* Renate Hoyer: ''Paula Conrad-Schlenther: 1860-1938; vierzig Jahre Tätigkeit am Königlichen Schauspielhaus in Berlin'', Berlin, Colloquium-Verlag, 1971. 160 pp.
*
C. Bernd Sucher (Hrsg.): ''
Theaterlexikon. Autoren, Regisseure, Schauspieler, Dramaturgen, Bühnenbildner, Kritiker.'' By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. 2nd edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3, p. 121 f.
External links
*
Paula Conradat filmportal.de
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1860 births
1938 deaths
Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to Germany
German stage actresses
Actresses from Austria-Hungary