Antonie Mansfeld
Antonie Mansfeld (born March 15, 1835 in Vienna as Antonie Montag , † October 23, 1875 in Lainz ) was an Austrian folk and operetta singer .
Life
Born Antonie Montag, she was the daughter of laundromats and trained as a seamstress. She got enthusiastic about music at an early age and became a singer. The patron Haberlandtner brought her back to Vienna from Budapest in 1866 and often gave private soirées in his house on Matzleinsdorfer Strasse, where she performed. This made her famous and popular among the bourgeoisie. She chose the name Mansfeld after the songwriter Ferdinand Mansfeld , who wrote her songs and whom she passed off as her brother, although he was in truth her lover.
She had her first public appearance in Vienna in Schwender's establishment , the owner of which she had met at one of the Haberlandtschen soirees. There she also sang in a duet with Michael Kogler. She also performed at the Dreher on Landstrasse , the Drei Engeln on the Wieden and the Zeisig in Neubau .
It usually had an upscale audience, who were amused by their piquant and frivolous songs, which are completely harmless in today's terms. Mansfeld performed most of her stage appearances in a simple high-necked black dress and thus conveyed a chaste, often shy expression, to which, however, her lecture stood in marked contrast. “What is Miss Mannsfeld singing? To put it briefly, she sings the Kankan. She sings the nonsense in the unambiguous text, she sings the most impertinent street hooters, as the tipsy, real 'Wiener Lumperl' 'feels and feels' him after the fourteenth half, she sings the house rules of certain houses, she sings the usages of the street whore. "
She adored Vienna's world and gave her the nickname “Wiener Theresa”, based on a Parisian model. Napoleon III was at one of their soirees in Salzburg . their listeners. After Ferdinand Mansfeld's death in 1869, Johann Sioly succeeded him as Mansfeld's composer, companion and lover. Before the upcoming wedding, however, the artist fell ill with mental confusion in 1873 and had to be taken to a private madhouse, where she died at the age of 39.
Luise Montag , who occasionally sang in a duet with her, adopted Mansfeld's name as her stage name.
repertoire
Among her most famous songs were
- Divine love
- Forget Me Not
- Lay me - in the grave
- Gfrett punching
- Well, you understand
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Schlögl : With the people singers and people singers. In: Viennese blood. Small cultural pictures from the folk life of the old imperial city on the Danube . Vienna 1875, p. 169.
literature
- Hans Pemmer : Monday Antonie. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 359.
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 (Volume 4), p. 147.
- Susanne Schedtler (ed.): Wienerlied and Weana dance . Löcker, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85409-412-4 .
- Austrian music lexicon . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 (Volume 3), p. 1358.
Web links
- Mansfeld, Antonie in the Austria Forum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mansfeld, Antonie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mannsfeld, Antonia; Montag, Antonia (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian folk singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1875 |
| Place of death | Lainz |