Wilhelmine Sandrock

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Wilhelmine Sandrock
Born(1861-02-05)February 5, 1861
Rotterdam, Netherlands
DiedNovember 29, 1948(1948-11-29) (aged 87)
Berlin, West Germany
Resting placeVienna, Austria
CitizenshipGerman
Occupation(s)Actress, singer
Years active1881 - 1930
RelativesAdele Sandrock

Wilhelmine Sandrock (born 5 February 1861 in Rotterdam; † 29 November 1948 in Berlin-Charlottenburg) was a German actress, active in theatre, silent and early sound films.

Similar to her younger sister Adele Sandrock, she was known for acting in well-known theatres in Berlin and Vienna in the decades before and after the turn of the century. After World War I, Sandrock retired from the stage and settled in Berlin. In the German cinema of the 1920s and 1930, she appeared in films directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and Steve Sekely.

Life and career

Sisters Adele Sandrock (left) and Wilhelmine Sandrock, 1885

Wilhelmine Sandrock was the eldest child of the German merchant Eduard Sandrock (1834–1897) and the Dutch actress Johanna Simonetta ten Hagen (1833–1917).[1] With her younger siblings Christian Sandrock and Adele Sandrock, she grew up in Rotterdam and later, after her parents' marriage was divorced in 1869,[2] in Berlin, where she continued her schooling and learned the German language.[3][4]

From an early age, Sandrock took on small acting roles at school festivals. She received singing lessons from German musician Theodor Kullak at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst; her mother and later the court actor Heinrich Oberländer gave her acting lessons. Supported by their mother Wilhelmine and Adele got their first roles. Thanks to this, she was soon able to make her successful debut at the Royal Schauspielhaus Berlin. Later, Sandrock was signed to the Wallner Theater. From there she went on 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. She also was successful as a singer, for example in 1898 as the vocal soubrette at the Thalia Theatre in Berlin.[5][4]

In 1886 she was appointed by the artistic director Adolf von Wilbrandt to the Hofburgtheater in Vienna, where Adele followed her a few years later, so that the sisters performed together from 1895 to 1898. 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 1894, Austrian writer Karl Kraus met Adele Sandrock and Hermann Bahr and also maintained a friendly relationship with Wilhelmine Sandrock. His correspondence between 1899 and 1904 shows a close familiarity between Kraus and Sandrock.[4]

After having been a member of the Hofburgtheater for 14 years, her contract was not renewed in March 1898. Adele resigned out of solidarity and the case attracted wide attention: The two sisters even received an audience with the Austrian emperor. Wilhelmine did not receive an extension, but a pension, and Adele remained at the Burgtheater for the time being. Wilhelmine Sandrock then performed at the Kaiser-Jubiläums-Stadttheater (now Volksoper) and was later engaged by the Residenztheater in Berlin. Adele also moved to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin to work with Max Reinhardt.[4]

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.[6][7] In the 1930 German comedy film directed by Steve Sekely The Great Longing, she played herself, alongside her sister and a number of other famous film stars of the day.[8]

When her sister died in 1937, Wilhelmine completed Adele's autobiography and published it in 1940.[9] Wilhelmine Sandrock died at the age of 87 in November 1948 and found her final resting place in the family grave at the Matzleinsdorf cemetery in Vienna, where Adele and the bones of their parents, exhumed from a family grave, had been buried in 1937.[4]

Roles

Theatre

Films

  • 1924: Michael
  • 1930: The Great Longing

Literature

References

  1. ^ Genealogie, Coret. "Geburt Johanna Wilhelmina Sandrock am 5. Februar 1861 in Rotterdam (Niederlande)". Open Archives (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  2. ^ "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
  3. ^ "Sandrock Wilhelmine – biografiA" (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Wilhelmine Sandrock". www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  5. ^ a b Eisenberg, Ludwig (1903). "Ludwig Eisenberg's großes biographisches Lexikon der deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert". daten.digitale-sammlungen.de. Leipzig: Paul List. p. 865. Retrieved 2024-07-13.
  6. ^ "Michael | filmportal.de". www.filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-13.
  7. ^ Drum, Jean; Drum, Dale D. (2000). My Only Great Passion: The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 306. ISBN 978-0-8108-3679-2.
  8. ^ "Die große Sehnsucht | filmportal.de". www.filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-13.
  9. ^ Killy, Walther; Vierhaus, Rudolf (2011-11-30). Dictionary of German Biography (DGB).: Plett-Schmidseder. Volume 8. Walter de Gruyter. p. 548. ISBN 978-3-11-096630-5.
  10. ^ "Mohrenkindansichtskarten". ANNO (Das Vaterland) (in German). 1904-05-02. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-12-15.

External links

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