Name Hermine Korner | Role Actress | |
Died December 14, 1960, Berlin, Germany Movies A Prussian Love Story, Friedemann Bach, Tragodie einer Leidenschaft, Man by the Roadside Similar People Gustaf Grundgens, Kurt Meisel, William Dieterle | ||
Hermine Korner (30 May 1878 in Berlin - 14 December 1960) was a German actress, director and theater manager.
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Early life
Korner was the fifth child of teacher and zoologist William Stader and Emilie Luyken. The father departed in 1880 on a lecture tour in the U.S. from which he did not return, he died on 28 February 1888 in Reading. The widowed mother moved with her five children from Berlin to her parents' house in Altenkirchen (Westerwald), where Korner spent her childhood. She studied piano at the Wiesbaden Conservatory from 1896 under Max Reger.
Career
In Wiesbaden, she discovered her passion for the theater, which she shared with her lover, the Austrian officer Franz Ferdinand Korner. She married Korner on 23 December 1897. With the assistance of her father-in-law August Korner, an influential Viennese banker, she was given the opportunity to audition for the director general of the Vienna Court Opera. Korner debuted in 1898 at Vienna's Burgtheater and eventually obtained an engagement at the Emperor's Jubilee Theatre. From 1905 to 1909 Korner played in the Dusseldorfer Schauspielhaus under Louise Dumont and her husband Gustav Lindemann, but went to the Court Theatre in 1909 in Dresden. In 1915, Max Reinhardt brought her to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In Stuttgart and Hamburg, she directed and stood on the stage, from 1919 to 1925 she was director in Dresden and Munich Schauspielhaus. Korner continued to play with Gustaf Grundgens at the Prussian State Theater in Berlin. Korner last lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. She was buried in the Zehlendorf cemetery.