Caroline Steiger

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Caroline Steiger , married Lebrun (born April 28, 1800 in Hamburg ; † January 23, 1886 there ) was a German actress.

Life

Steiger was a daughter of the actor Anton Steiger . At the age of three, on June 24, 1803, she was seen for the first time on a stage ( Hamburg City Theater ) as Infanta Clara Eugenia in Schiller's Don Karlos . The artistic director Friedrich Ludwig Schröder commissioned his director Friedrich Ludwig Schmidt to write and stage a number of popular pieces for Caroline.

In 1822 she married the actor Karl August Lebrun in Hamburg . Her three daughters Louise (* 1822), Antonie (* 1823) and Julinka Lebrun (* 1825) later also took up the profession of actress.

Grave slab Lebrun , tomb – open-air museum Heckengarten

Steiger did not go on tours and only gave a few guest performances in the vicinity of Hamburg. She gave her official farewell performance in 1852. Later she was only seen on stage for a few occasions such as charity performances.

Caroline Steiger died in Hamburg on January 23, 1886, nine weeks before her 86th birthday.

The original grave slab for "Carl August Lebrün / his wife / children and grandchildren / with 25 years of rest / 1842" is in the open-air tomb museum in Heckengarten at Ohlsdorf cemetery .
To “Carl August Lebrun 1792–1842” and “Caroline Johanna Marianne Lebrun geb. Steiger 1800–1883 ​​”is also remembered in the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery on the left half of the double collective grave slab of the City Theater (located immediately to the left of the collective grave slab Thalia Theater ).

literature

  • Manfred Barthel (ed.): Theater in letters. From Neuberin to Josef Kainz . Actor letters from two centuries . Edition Wissenschaft & Literatur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-922804-07-1 .
  • Ludwig Eisenberg: Lebrun Karoline (nee Steiger) , in: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century . List Verlag, Leipzig 1903, p. 581 f. ( Text archive - Internet Archive )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grave slab in the hedge garden , Ohlsdorf cemetery
personal data
SURNAME Steiger, Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lebrun, Karoline; Lebrun, Caroline; Steiger, Karoline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1886
Place of death Hamburg