Caroline Maximiliane Döbbelin

Demoiselle Doebbelin as Ariadne

Caroline Maximiliane Döbbelin ( 1758 in Cologne - 1828 in Berlin ) was a German theater actress .

Life

Döbbelin, daughter of the theater director Karl Theophil Döbbelin and stepdaughter of Katharina Friederike Döbbelin , played in children's roles with Konrad Ernst Ackermann in Zurich as early as 1762 , made her debut in Berlin in 1775 as “Erixene” ( The Enemy Brothers ).

Although neglected by her parents, she developed a beautiful talent that made her the darling of the audience. An increasing body and a not very sonorous voice forced her to move from the lovers' subject to that of the old when she was still young.

She gave flirtatious old maids, prayer sisters, quarrelsome women, etc. with seldom perfection, but more where it was more a question of comic than serious characters. However, she exaggerated some humorous traits, tempted by the applause. An eye disease forced her to take a break from the stage for a full seven years.

It was not until April 16, 1812 that she could appear again as "Jungfrau Jacobe Schmalheim" ( trousseau ). After she celebrated her 50th anniversary on July 13, 1812, she retired entirely from the stage in 1815. The king granted her a substantial pension. The old eye disease broke out again and she died completely blind at the age of 70.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 204, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Joseph Kürschner:  Doebelin, Karl Theophilus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 285-288.