Alexandrine von Schönerer

Fräulein von Schönerer after Carl von Stur ( The Flea of June 29, 1884)

Alexander Girardi and his two theater directors at the Theater an der Wien: Alexandrine von Schönerer and Camillo Walzel

Alexandrine von Schönerer (born June 15, 1850 in Vienna as Alexandra Lucia ; † November 28, 1919 there ) was an Austrian artistic director , director , actress and theater director .

Life

After the lease contract concluded between her and the librettist Camillo Walzel in 1884 expired, she was director of the Theater an der Wien from 1889 to 1905 . Several operas were premiered under her direction . Including in German 1893 The Bartered Bride , 1897 Königskinder (Opera) and La Bohème .

According to an old agreement between Schönerer, the publisher Emil Berté , and the librettists Bernhard Buchbinder and Alfred Maria Willner , Johann Strauss (son) composed his last operetta The Goddess of Reason , a French revolutionary amusement, which premiered on March 13, 1897 and 36 times has been listed in a row.

On March 17, 1900, she sold the theater to Leon Dorer , Baron Emil Kubinsky and Josef Edler von Simon .

In 1898 Schönerer was caricatured with Johann Strauss, among others, on a sheet of pictures by Theo Zasche (1862–1922) in Le Figaro .

She always distanced herself from the anti-Semitism of her brother Georg von Schönerer .

Anton Bauer: 150 years of Theater an der Wien , Zurich, Leipzig, Vienna, 1952
Hadamowsky, Vienna, Theatergeschichte , 1994, 619ff. and DBA I 1131, 73-76
E. Fleissner-Moebius - H. Reitterer: Schönerer Alexandrine von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 66.

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personal data
SURNAME	Schönerer, Alexandrine von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian actress and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH	June 15, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	November 28, 1919
Place of death	Vienna