Antonie Adamberger

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Antonie Adamberger on an engraving after a miniature portrait by Johann Maria Monsomo
Antonie Adamberger with her fiancé Theodor Körner . Postcard after a painting by Hugo Schubert
Antonie Adamberger, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1856

Antonie "Toni" Adamberger (born December 31, 1790 in Vienna , † December 25, 1867 in Vienna) was an Austrian actress .

Life

The daughter of the tenor Josef Valentin Adamberger and the actress Anna Marie Nanny Jacquet was educated by the poet Heinrich Joseph von Collin after the death of her parents and made her debut at the Burgtheater on January 1, 1807 at the age of 16 . She was immediately engaged as a court actress and "found great recognition in naive, sentimental and some tragic roles." Antonie Adamberger quickly became the darling of the Viennese audience and convinced as Beatrice in the Bride of Messina as well as Desdemona and Emilia Galotti .

Beethoven composed the songs of Klärchen especially for Antonie Adamberger for his incidental music to Goethe's Egmont , which was first performed on June 15, 1810 in the Burgtheater . Later she made several very positive comments about her collaboration with the composer.

In 1812 Theodor Körner was appointed to the Burgtheater as a theater poet. Antonie Adamberger saw him for the first time at a rehearsal of the comedy The Green Domino . In the same year, the engagement between Körner and her took place, as early as February the poet was writing his drama Toni , in which his fiancée later played the leading role. Antonie Adamberger was part of Caroline Pichler's circle , who wrote about her appearance in Toni :

“Toni (Miss Adamberger) played this leading role and one could see that the poet's love had surrounded this character with a transfiguration of strength, feminine dignity, spirit and nobility, which was at the moment the work of his passion and imagination, but nevertheless had many similar basic features with the character of Antonia. "

- Caroline Pichler : Memories of my Life , 1844

Körner dedicated several poems to her until his death in 1813 and, in addition to the drama Toni, also the play Zriny . A few years after his death, the Adamberger left the stage in 1817 and married the archaeologist Joseph Arneth that same year . Two years later, their son Alfred von Arneth was born. In 1820 she became a reader of Empress Karoline Auguste and in 1832 she was appointed superior of the Karolinenstift, an educational institute for female soldiers' children. Antonie Adamberger died in Vienna in 1867. She rests in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery (group 14 A, number 49).

A portrait of Adamberger by Joseph Hickel was created around 1805 . Johann Maria Monsomo created a miniature portrait of her. In 1894 the Adambergergasse in Vienna- Leopoldstadt (2nd district) was named after her. Arnethgasse in the 16th district of Ottakring is named after her husband .

literature

  • Hans K. von Jaden: Theodor Körner and his bride. Hauschild, Dresden 1896.
  • Philipp Stein: German Actors, Volume 2. The XIX. Century to early forties. Society for Theater History, Berlin 1908, p. 1.
  • Hans Zimmer: Theodor Körner's bride. A picture of Antonie Adamberger's life and character. Greiner & Pfeiffer , Stuttgart 1918.
  • Gerta Hartl: arabesques of life. The actress Toni Adamberger. Styria, Graz et al. 1963.

Web links

Commons : Antonie Adamberger  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stein, p. 1.
  2. ↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 3–5.
personal data
SURNAME Adamberger, Antonie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adamberger, Toni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress, fiancee Theodor Körner
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1867
Place of death Vienna