Karoline Bauer

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Karoline Bauer, steel engraving by Franz Xaver Stöber
Karoline Bauer on the arm of Heinrich Blume , detail of the painting Parade on the Opernplatz by Franz Krüger , Berlin 1829
Museum Society Karlsruhe, where Karoline Bauer made her pianist debut in 1820
Karlsruhe Court Theater around 1820

Karoline Bauer (born March 29, 1807 in Heidelberg , † October 18, 1877 in Kilchberg near Zurich ) was a German actress of the Biedermeier period .

Live and act

Childhood and youth

After the death of her father, who fell as a cavalry officer near Aspern , she and her family settled in Karlsruhe in 1814 . She made her debut as a pianist in 1820 in the museum hall on the occasion of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's D minor concert .

Professional background

Bauer neglected music in favor of the theater. She took acting lessons from Johanna Demmer , a student of August Wilhelm Iffland . With their help, she was able to debut as an actress in December 1822 - at the Karlsruhe Court Theater - in the role of "Margarete".

Grace, naturalness and peculiar talent quickly made her the celebrated darling of the public. In 1824 she was appointed to the Königsstädtisches Theater in Berlin and six months later, until 1829, she was employed at the court stage there.

In 1831 she returned to the stage and followed a call to Saint Petersburg . In 1834 she made guest appearances with extraordinary success in Vienna , Budapest , Leipzig , Hamburg , Berlin, Lübeck etc., and later in Dresden , at whose court theater she worked with constant applause until 1844. She said goodbye there in the role of "Armand".

Already in Saint Petersburg and later in Germany she was in competition with her colleague Charlotte von Hagn , who played at the theater in Berlin. The theater audience was divided into “Hagnians” and “Bauerians”, depending on the following.

Others

In 1829 she left the stage to be raised to Countess Montgomery to marry Prince Leopold von Coburg , from whom she was divorced in 1831 when he assumed the Belgian royal crown as Leopold I.

Married to the Polish-Lithuanian emigrant Count Ladislaus von Broel-Plater since 1844 , she died on October 18, 1877 at Villa Broelberg near Zurich.

Your editor, Arnold Wellmer, published posthumously "Verschollene Herzensgeschichten", u. a. with unauthorized letters from Bauer, and he quoted from her unpublished diaries. This was not only controversially discussed in public, but also resulted in a lengthy process with Count Plater.

Roles (selection)

Works

  • From my stage life. 1st edition Berlin 1871. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • From my stage life . 2nd edition Berlin 1876 (2 vols.).
  • Comedian rides . Berlin 1875 (edited by Arnold Wellmer), digitized
  • Lost Heart Stories / Leftover Memoirs (edited by Arnold Wellmer), 1878/80, Louis Gerschel Verlagbuchhandlung Berlin.

literature

Web links

Commons : Karoline Bauer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Explanations

  1. ↑ see Amalia Carolina Louisa Benda and Sophia Carolina Benda the question of identity in " Stella " (from: Lost Heart Stories / Postponed Memoirs )
  2. ↑ see Lier's detailed ADB article from 1910

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personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Karoline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Lina (stage name); Bauer, Karoline Philippine Auguste (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress of the Biedermeier period
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1877
Place of death Villa Broelberg near Zurich