The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. (July 2024) |
Wilhelmine Sandrock (born 5 February 1861 in Rotterdam; † 29 November 1948 in Berlin-Charlottenburg) was a German singer and actress in theatre and silent movies.
Life and career
editWilhelmine Sandrock was the eldest child of the German merchant Eduard Sandrock (1834–1897) and the Dutch actress Johanna Simonetta (called Nans) ten Hagen (1833–1917). With her siblings Christian Sandrock and Adele Sandrock, she grew up in Rotterdam and later, after her parents' marriage was divorced in 1869,[1] in Berlin, where she attended school and learned the German language.[citation needed]
At an early age, Sandrock took on small acting roles at school festivals. With the consent of her parents, she received singing lessons from Theodor Kullak at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst; her mother and later the court actor Heinrich Oberländer gave her acting lessons. Thanks to his support, she was soon able to make her successful debut at the Royal Schauspielhaus Berlin.[citation needed]
Later, Sandrock was signed to the Wallner Theater. From there she went to the Court Theatre in Saint Petersburg. After this engagement, she returned to Berlin and was first seen there as the "Puppet Princess" at the Kroll'sches Theater.[citation needed]
In addition, she also performed as a singer; with her Violet couplet (sung in Dutch) she achieved extraordinary success. In the spring of 1884, the director of the Burgtheater, Adolf von Wilbrandt, brought her to Vienna. Between 1895 and 1898 she performed there regularly together with her younger sister Adele. She was also briefly in a relationship with Austrian writer Hermann Bahr, while her sister Adele had a relationship with Austrian dramatist Arthur Schnitzler. In 1898 she moved to the Kaiserjubiläums-Stadttheater.[citation needed]
After World War I, Sandrock retired from the stage and settled in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Turning to acting in movies, she played the role of Widow de Monthieu in Michael, the 1924 German silent drama film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.[2] In the 1930 German comedy film directed by Steve Sekely The Great Longing, she played herself, alongside her sister Adele.[3]
When her sister died in 1937, Wilhelmine completed Adele's autobiography and published it in 1940. Wilhelmine Sandrock died at the age of 87 in November 1948 and found her final resting place in the grave at the Matzleinsdorf cemetery in Vienna, where Adele and the bones of her parents, exhumed from a family grave, had been buried in 1937.[citation needed]
Roles
editTheatre
- Eduard Jacobson, Otto Girndt: Die Puppenprinzessin (Puppenprinzessin).[citation needed]
- Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti, Ich kauf' ein Mohrenkind (Missionsschwester). 1904.[4]
Films
- 1924: Michael
- 1930: The Great Longing
Literature
edit- Adele Sandrock: Mein Leben. Ergänzt und herausgegeben von Wilhelmine Sandrock. Mit einem Vorwort von Joseph Gregor. Buchwarte-Verlag, Berlin 1940.
- Ludwig Eisenberg: Wilhelmine Sandrock. In: Großes biographisches Lexikon der deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 865 (daten.digitale-sammlungen.de).
References
edit- ^ "Scheidung am 15. November 1869 in Rotterdam (Niederlande)" [Divorce on 15 November 1869 in Rotterdam (The Netherlands)] (in Dutch). openarch.nl. Retrieved 2021-08-03. openarch.nl
- ^ "Michael | filmportal.de". www.filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-13.
- ^ "Die große Sehnsucht | filmportal.de". www.filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-13.
- ^ "Mohrenkindansichtskarten". ANNO (Das Vaterland) (in German). 1904-05-02. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
