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Camilla Eibenschütz

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Camilla Eibenschütz in costume as "Sumurun", from a 1912 publication.

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

Early life

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Camille Eibenschütz was from Bavaria,[1] the daughter of pianist and music professor Albert Eibenschütz and Anna Theresa Rosa Knorr. Hungarian pianist Ilona Eibenschütz was her father's cousin.

Career

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Camilla Eibenschütz was the first actress to play "Wendla" in Frank Wedekind's controversial Frühlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening) in Berlin in 1906.[2] In 1907 she played Juliet in Max Reinhardt's Romeo and Juliet, opposite Alexander Moissi.[3] She also played Ophelia, Viola, and Titania in Reinhardt's Shakespeare productions.[4] Albert von Keller painted her as Myrrhine in Lysistrata in 1909. On Broadway, she starred in Reinhardt's pantomime Sumurun in 1912,[5] with Leopoldine Konstantin, Emil Lind, and other European actors.[6] She was in Blue Bird in Berlin in 1912,[7] and in The Yellow Jacket in Berlin in 1914.[8]

Eibenschütz was known as a collector of art, to decorate her two residences, a country home at Bogensberglehen and a villa at Dahlem.[9]

Personal life

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Offenbach, Alter Friedhof, Grab August Huck

Camilla Eibenschütz married twice; first, briefly, to Polish dramatist Ryszard Ordynski in 1913,[10] and later to newspaper publisher Dr. Wolfgang Huck [de] (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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  1. ^ "Camilla Eibenschutz" Pittsburgh Press (March 21, 1926): 98. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  2. ^ Edward Braun, The Director & The Stage: From Naturalism to Grotowski (A&C Black 1986). ISBN 978-1-4081-4924-9
  3. ^ E. F. S., "The Stage from the Stalls" The Sketch (February 20, 1907): 172.
  4. ^ "About People" Woman's Home Companion (April 1912): 20.
  5. ^ "To Produce 'Sumurun' Here" New York Times (December 17, 1911): C4. via ProQuest
  6. ^ "Sumurun" Theatre Magazine (February 1912): 54–55.
  7. ^ "'Blue Bird' Given in Berlin" New York Times (December 29, 1912): 27. via ProQuest
  8. ^ J. O. L., "The Three Arts" Evening Sun (April 17, 1914): 6. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  9. ^ "Catalogue Note: The Huck-Eibenschütz Collection" European Furniture and Good Decorations (Sotheby's 2005).
  10. ^ "Host of Tourists Invading Berlin" New York Times (August 17, 1913): 2. via ProQuest
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