Caroline Schuch
Caroline Schuch (born April 17, 1739 - † November 8, 1787 in Königsberg , Prussia ) was a German actress . Together with her husband, she was one of the leading forces in German theater in the second half of the 18th century .
Life
Caroline probably came from Silesia and was her second marriage to Franz Schuch the Elder. J. (1741–1771) married. She played with him in Berlin and on guest appearances in Danzig and Konigsberg. With the good conditions, they stayed in East Prussia's capital. When her husband died at the age of 30, Caroline took over the management of the theater and the prestigious company for which she was able to recruit important actors. In winter she played in her own theater in Königsberg and in autumn mostly in Gdansk. In summer she made guest appearances in the larger cities of East Prussia and - at the request of Peter von Birons - in Libau and Mitau . In addition to roles in popular plays by William Shakespeare and her contemporaries Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller , she played French pieces . With her husband she used the Singspiel , for a while with ballet interludes . Ludwig von Baczko and Friedrich Ernst Jester provided her with translations of French plays and her own text books.
When she died at the age of 48, Karl Steinberg (1757–1811), her son from her first marriage, took over the Königsberg theater management. Their two daughters married the actor brothers Bachmann. When the theater fell victim to a fire in 1802, Friederike and her husband founded the West Prussian Drama Company in Danzig. This ended the theater community Königsberg – Danzig.
literature
- Ernst August Hagen : History of the theater in Prussia . Königsberg 1854 (digitized at: archive.org )
- Old Prussian biography . Volume II. Marburg 1967.
- Helmut Motekat: East Prussian literary history with Danzig and West Prussia . Schild, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-88014-053-7 .
- Hugo Rasmus: Life pictures of West Prussian women in the past and present . Nicolaus-Copernicus-Verlag, Münster 1984, ISBN 3-924238-07-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Schuch, (Johanna) Caroline. In: Kulturportal West-Ost
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schuch, Caroline |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schuch, Johanna Caroline (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1739 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1787 |
| Place of death | Koenigsberg , Prussia |