Trivia

Trained as a pianist under Max Reger in 1896.

Daughter of the zoologist/naturalist Professor Wilhelm Stader. A prominent stage actress, she made her debut at the Viennese Burgtheater in 1898 despite having had no prior acting training or experience. Körner became a celebrated tragedienne of German theatre in the 1910's, noted for her performances in plays by Ibsen, Shaw and Hauptmann. In the 1920's, she turned to teaching drama, directing for the stage and holding the stewardship at several important theatrical venues in Munich and Dresden. She appeared only rarely in films.

She was director of the Schauspielhaus, at the Lustspieltheater and at the Künstlertheater from 1919 to 1925.

Her creative power was always orientated to the theater still Hermine Körner took also part in some movies.

She made her theater debut in 1898 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, it followed engagements at the Residenztheater Berlin and at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf. Eventually she went to Berlin where she was active as an actress and director at the Deutsches Theater.