Auguste Hohenschild
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Auguste Hohenschild (Sidonie Marie Auguste Caroline Hohenschild[1]; 29 September 1851[2] – 15 July 1938) was a German alto and singing teacher. She was trained by Amalie Joachim and performed together with Marie Fillunger, among others. From 1893 to 1922, she was married to Andreas Heusler, a German scholar, and lived in Berlin for several years.
Hohenschild was the daughter of the Darmstadt physician Ludwig Ernst Wilhelm Hohenschild (1829–1862) and his wife Auguste Hohenschild née Fröhlich. She was probably born in Darmstadt and had a younger sister.[2] From January to October 1870, she studied piano at the Königliche Hochschule für Musik and singing from 1872 to 1873, among others as a pupil of Amalie Joachim.[3] She was then an assistant teacher for singing at this institution from 1874 to 1877. She was also "active for a few years as a teacher at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig."[3] According to an announcement in the Allgemeine deutsche Musikzeitung, Hohenschild taught at the Hochschule Berlin until April 1878. She therefore gave up teaching to devote herself to her work as a concert singer.[4]
In the Berliner Adressbuch, Auguste Hohenschild's mother, born Fröhlich, is registered from 1872[5] – it can be assumed that Hohenschild lived with her mother in Berlin from the 1870s onwards because of her studies. Hohenschild first appears independently in the Berlin address book as a concert singer and singing teacher from 1885.[6] In 1881, she lived together with her mother in Frankfurt for a short time, probably because of her concert activities[7]
In January 1893, Hohenschild married Andreas Heusler.[1] They lived together at Schöneberger Ufer 41.[8] During their marriage, regular music evenings were given in the shared flat.[9] Heusler himself was very interested in music, played the violin and was in contact with Joseph Joachim. The couple separated in 1901 and divorced in 1922. In 1901, Hohenschild lived for a few months with her mother and sister in Schönberg.[10] She is first mentioned in 1904 as Auguste Heusler in the Berliner Adressbuch[11] and in 1906 as Singing teacher Auguste Heusler-Hohenschild.[12] There are no more entries in the Berliner Adressbuch from 1909.
Hohenschild died on 15 July 1938 in Darmstadt at the age of 86.[13]
