Caroline Brandt
Caroline Elisabeth Antoinette Brandt , married Caroline von Weber (* between 1792 and 1793 in Bonn ; † February 23, 1852 in Dresden ) was a German theater actress and singer .
Life
Brandt, the daughter of the tenor and concert violinist Christoph Hermann Joseph Brandt at the electoral chapel in Bonn and the actress Christiane Sophia Henrietta Brandt , entered the stage at the age of eight, then spent her 11th to 13th years in an educational institute in Ballenstedt, from where she returned to the family and the stage when the dissolution of the above-mentioned band put the parents in need.
Now began a long wandering life: from April to June 1803 she worked under Carl Witter in Altenburg , then probably also in Naumburg (Saale) . From October 1803 to September 1804 she was again under Lange in Altenburg, then in Erfurt, Gera , Naumburg (Saale) and Rudolstadt . From 1804 to 1805 she played at the Coburg Theater under the director Christian Füldner and from 1805 to 1806 under the director Maria Vanini, first in Bamberg and then at the Augsburg Theater . In 1807 she played again under Maria Vanini at the theater in St. Gallen. From 1807 to 1808 she worked under the director Ferdinand Kindler in St. Gallen. In 1808 she stayed in Freiburg / Breisgau and from 1808 to 1809 she was probably employed in Karlsruhe under the director Wilhelm Vogel .
From 1809 to 1813 she was permanently engaged at the Frankfurt theater. Here she took on the title role in the world premiere of Carl Maria von Weber's opera Silvana in September 1810 .
Carl Maria von Weber engaged her in the summer of 1813 at the Prague Estates Theater, of which he was the opera director. She arrived in Prague on December 11, 1813, accompanied by her mother, and made her debut on New Year's 1814 in Nicolas Isouard's opera Cendrillon (Cinderella), where her petite figure was helpful. The debut was a great success.
Soon a closer relationship began with Weber, but this only led to the marriage on November 4, 1817 in Prague, when Weber was already working in Dresden, where she then moved herself and gave up her stage career. Their son Max Maria von Weber was born in 1822, the second of three children.
On his trip from Hamburg to Vienna in May 1818, the actor Carl Ludwig Costenoble paid a visit to Frau von Weber in Dresden, which he described in his diary as follows:
“When we arrived in Dresden and quartered in the city of Berlin, we didn't know what to do on a more occasional basis than to visit the wife of the conductor Carl Maria von Weber, former Brand, because she welcomed us so extremely graciously in Prague two years ago. Oh heaven, what a distance! - We were led into a very splendidly furnished room, where Frau von Weber approached us with a highly aristocratic expression, and in all the formality of a lady of the world Jeanette was invited to take a seat on the sofa next to the well-married woman. I was graciously allowed to fill the chair opposite. I know very well that meetings of this kind are the convenience of great people, only I was demonized to see the same person who moved so naturally and amiably around and next to us in Prague, here so screwed, stiff and ceremonial. We soon got up from the pompous seats and hurried back to the city of Berlin for comfort. "
The singer and actor Louis Brandt was Brandt's brother.
Remarks
- ↑ According to the WeGA, she was baptized either on December 19, 1793 or November 19, 1792 , Eisenberg states 1794 as the year of birth.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Caroline Brandt . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 120 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
- Eveline Bartlitz (ed.): My beloved Muks. A hundred letters from Carl Maria von Weber to Caroline Brandt from 1814–1817 . First published according to the sources on behalf of the German State Library Berlin / GDR by Eveline Bartlitz on the 200th birthday of Carl Maria von Weber, Berlin & Munich 1986.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John Warrack: About this Recording - 8.223844-45 - WEBER: Silvana. on naxos.com. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
- ↑ Family Tables for Carl Maria von Weber (PDF) accessed on January 7, 2017
- ^ Carl Ludwig Costenoble: My curriculum vitae . Vienna Library, Ic 59759, Volume 1, fol. 440v
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brandt, Caroline |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brandt, Caroline Elisabeth Antoinette (full name); Weber, Caroline of |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actress and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1792 and 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1852 |
| Place of death | Dresden |