Andreas Joseph Schopf

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Andreas Joseph Schopf , also short André Schopf ( 1743 in Vienna - 19 September 1813 in Prague ) was an Austrian theater principal .

Life

Andreas Schopf was born in 1751 in Vienna, the son of a body coach of Maria Theresa . From 1775 he was married to Therese Wentzig , born in 1753 , a daughter of the theater principal Ludwig Wentzig (Linz).

From 1774 he directed the court theater in Innsbruck . From October 16, 1776 to February 11, 1777, he gave no fewer than 64 performances in Augsburg with his acting company, to which the young Emanuel Schikaneder temporarily belonged. After a brief guest performance in Salzburg, he and his troupe came to Regensburg at the end of June 1777, where, from July 1, initially on their own, from March 1, 1778, as director of the Princely Thurn and Taxis National Show, he made the city of the Perpetual Reichstag an outstanding theater location made. On February 29, 1784 he gave an acclaimed farewell performance in front of the Regensburg audience. He was initially unable to build on this success in the following guest appearances in Augsburg (1784/85), Passau (1786/87) and Erlangen (1787). On March 3, 1792, he was appointed High Princely Drama Director in Passau . At the same time he was awarded the dignity of a high princely Truchseß , so that he was accepted into the Passau court . In Passau he worked again from 1794 to 1798 and from 1799 to 1801. In 1801 he went back to Prague after secularization .

In Prague he later set up the new estates theater, but soon left its management to his pupil Liebich under Guardasoni's senior management and returned to Passau.

Schopf as a possible arranger of the Magic Flute

It is possible that Andreas Joseph Schopf was the first to edit the text of the Magic Flute , which is located in Passau. This editor explained that in the original version, the opera required too much effort in terms of personnel and technology. The revised version was very successful and was soon reprinted. It is probable that Schopf was the author of this revision for several reasons: He and his troupe worked at the Passau Court Theater for a year after the German national theater of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis in Regensburg had been converted into an Italian court opera company, and also returned returned there after a stop in Prague in 1792. As the High Princely Passau Theater Director, he enjoyed a great reputation. He was also considered to be very intelligent and particularly proficient in the German language. - In the Passau arrangement of the Magic Flute there is no reference to Egypt or Freemasonry; several roles, including those of the three priests, have been canceled, Monostratos is Sarastro's first slave and the Queen of the Night, a sorceress whose power consists of music and who bears the name Karmela. Pamina and Tamino belong to the knighthood. Papageno's performance song has been expanded to include the third stanza, which was not originally intended. Emanuel Schikaneder was a member of Schopf's troop from 1775 to 1777.

Contemporary representation

Short biographies of Schopf and his ensemble in 1777 can be found in the first volume of the Actor Portraite , a collection of silhouettes that is in the Bavarian State Library in Munich as Cod. Germ. 5265.

literature

  • Richard Hauber, Max Herre (ed.): The city theater Augsburg. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary by order of the city. Edited by Dr. Max Herre , Augsburg, 1927, self-published by the city of Augsburg, 188 p., With appendix, p. 39–72
  • Gottfried Schäffer : The prince-bishop and royal theater at Passau (1783-1883) . In: Ostbairische Grenzmarken XV, Passau 1973, p. 67
  • Franz Mader , City Archives Passau: A thousand Passauers . Passau 1995, p. 210, ISBN 3-924484-98-8
  • Manfred Knedlik: Princely court theater and national theater. The theater principal Andreas Schopf as Thurn und Taxisscher theater director . In: Thilo Bauer, Peter Styra (eds.): The path leads through alleys ... From Regensburgs Literatur und Geschichte, Regensburg 1999, pp. 33–51.
  • Adolf Scherl: Andreas Joseph Schopf . In: Divadelní revue I. 2004, pp. 50–51.
  • Christoph Meixner: Music theater in Regensburg in the age of the everlasting Reichstag , Sinzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-89564-114-5 (with an overview of Schopf's schedule for the years 1777–1784).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Eduard Rainold (ed.), Hyllos. Mixed essays, instructive and entertaining content , Volume 1, 1819, p. 206
  2. ↑ August Klingemann (ed.), General German Theater Almanac for the year 1822 , Braunschweig 1822, p. 260
  3. ↑ Gerald Fischer-Colbrie: A Linz pamphlet from 1794 about the magic flute. First performances, text changes, interpretations. In: Archive of the City of Linz (ed.): Historical Yearbook of the City of Linz 1991. Linz 1992, pp. 29–40, here p. 33 f, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  4. ↑ Anke Sonnek, Schikaneder, Johann Joseph Emanuel , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 22 (2005), pp. 753–754 [online version]; URL: http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/ppn11860757X.html
  5. ↑ East Bavarian border stamps. Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde 15/16, 1973, p. 115
personal data
SURNAME Schopf, Andreas Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schopf, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater principal
DATE OF BIRTH 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1813
Place of death Prague