Betty Schröder

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Betty Schroeder, lithograph by Josef Eduard Teltscher , 1826

Johanne Friederike Elisabeth Schröder (born November 27, 1806 in Hamburg ; † October 6, 1887 in Coburg ), married Schmidt, was a German soprano and stage actress - as a married Betty Schmidt not to be confused with the singer Betty / Betti Schmidt, nee. Heart.

Life

Theater an der Wien 1815 by Jakob Alt

(Elisabeth) Betty Schröder was born as the second eldest daughter of the baritone and actor Friedrich Schröder and the well-known soprano and actress Sophie Schröder in Hamburg in 1806. Like her siblings, she received dance and acting lessons at a very young age and soon took on minor children's roles in various theater plays, and in 1813 she also performed including dance performances at the theaters in Frankfurt am Main and Mannheim as part of her parents' guest tours.

Due to the political unrest of the Napoleonic period, the family moved completely from Hamburg in 1813, first to Prague , where Betty Schröder appeared in children's ballets, and in 1815 to Vienna , where she took part in Horschelt 's children's ballets. 1819–1821 he appeared on stage, mostly as an actress, at the Vienna Burgtheater (October 16, 1819 debut as Melitta in Sappho von Grillparzer ). In addition, Betty Schröder had her soprano voice trained by the music teachers Giuseppe Ciccimarra and Joseph Mozatti. In July 1822, guest performances were held at the Dresden Court Theater and the Leipzig Theater together with the mother and older sister Wilhelmine , and in August 1822 at the Kassel Court Theater . On July 5, 1823, Betty Schröder played the title role in the premiere of the music drama Preciosa von Wolff and Weber at the Theater an der Wien . From 1824 she worked very successfully at the Vienna Court Opera .

The new city ​​theater in Hamburg, photograph around 1865

On May 26, 1827, Betty Schröder was the first singer to join the Hamburg City Theater, which opened in 1826 and where she had great success. On November 22nd, 1831 she married the doctor Philipp Schmidt (son of the theater director Friedrich Ludwig Schmidt ) in Hamburg and soon after said goodbye to the stage. In 1852/53 there were repeated appearances in Hamburg and Stuttgart , but now in tragic speaking roles, as well as at church music and private concerts.

family

Betty Schmidt's son Friedrich Ludwig Schmidt , born in 1833, was a well-known baritone, actor and theater director, her older sister the famous singer and actress Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient . The younger sister Auguste Schröder (1810–1874), married Schloenbach, married Gerlach, last worked as an actress at the Coburg Theater , the brother Alexander Schröder, born in 1812, was first an actor, later a major in Munich . The half-brother Wilhelm Smets (1796-1848) was a theologian, writer, priest and from 1844 canon in Aachen .

Stage roles (selection)

literature

  • Alfred Freiherr von Wolhaben : Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient: A contribution to the history of musical drama , Verlag FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1863, to Betty Schröder pp. 8, 13, 16, 33, 47 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical directory for theater, dance and Music. Volume 2 MZ, Berlin-Verlag Spitz, 1997, p. 1657 (with references).
  • Moses Paul Friedrich Philipp Schmidt: Sophie Schröder, how she lives in the memories of her contemporaries and children. Wallishausser'sche Buchhandlung Verlag, 1870, ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Friedrich Schröder († 1818), see Albrecht: You are allowed to waste the stars - actor memories of the 18th and 19th centuries. Buchverlag Der Morgen Berlin, 1980, p. 534.
  2. ↑ Moses Paul Friedrich Philipp Schmidt: Sophie Schröder, how she lives in the memory of her contemporaries and children. P. 16 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  3. ^ Sister Auguste bei Eisenberg in the article Sophie Schröder, p. 924.
  4. ↑ Albrecht: You are allowed to waste the stars - actor memories of the 18th and 19th centuries. Buchverlag Der Morgen Berlin, 1980, p. 534.
  5. ↑ Half-brother Wilhelm Smets in the article Uwe Harten : Schröder-Devrient, Wilhelmine. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical directory for theater, dance, etc. Music. Volume 2 MZ, Berlin-Verlag Spitz, 1997, p. 1657 (with references)
  2. ↑ not to be confused with the theater director Friedrich Ludwig Schröder
  3. ↑ some sources (WeGa, Eisenberg) name the year 1823, but see Joseph A. Kruse: Heines Hamburger Zeit. P. 137 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ see also letter from the mother of Betty Schröder from September 4, 1820 (page 249) and persons register (S. 534 right column) Albrecht: The stars dürfet their waste ... .
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Betty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schröder Johanne Friederike Elisabeth, Schmidt Betty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and soprano
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1887
Place of death Coburg