Carl Schönfeld (actor, 1819)

Carl Schönfeld (born December 15, 1819 in Augsburg , † October 6, 1885 in Vienna ) was a German theater actor and director .

Life

Schönfeld, son of the actor and director of the Augsburg city theater Heinrich Schönfeld and Maria Margareta Schönfeld , née Forster, also an actress in Augsburg, began his career there in 1837. Under the supervision of his father, he played the lover and bon vivant for several years. In 1844 he went to the court theater in Karlsruhe. He stayed there for 28 years before moving to the Stadttheater Wien , which was newly founded by Heinrich Laube, in 1872 . Although he began there as an actor, Laube gave him more and more directorial work. A friendship developed between him and Laube, which went so far in June 1873 that Laube even entrusted him with the management of the theater until his return - on the occasion of a necessary cure in Karlsbad. The friendship solidified so much that when Laube resigned the management of the Stadttheater for the third and last time in 1880, Schönfeld submitted an application for retirement, which was approved, so that he withdrew into private life. The grand duke was able to retire. Baden court actors did not enjoy long, however, because he suddenly fell ill with liver degeneration, which brought him to death in October 1885.

Schönfeld was married to Louise Krauth since 1847 . Their son Franz Schönfeld also became an actor.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century . List, Leipzig 1903, p. 906