Charlotte Sophie Höffert
Charlotte Sophie Höffert (married Schütz ) (born March 11, 1809 in Emden , † August 8, 1850 in Braunschweig ) was a ducal Braunschweig court actress.
Life
Charlotte Sophie Höffert's parents were actors in Emden. As a child she made her first appearances on the theater stage.
After the early death of her father, she accompanied her mother to Münster , where she was instructed by Henriette Hendel-Schütz, who was then the greatest mimic artist in Germany, in techniques that she used in the then fashionable “ living images ”. She first tried a career as a singer, chose the subject opera soubrette and appeared as Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni . Because of problems with her voice, she finally devoted herself entirely to spoken theater.
In 1824 she was engaged as an actress at the Braunschweig National Theater , then under the direction of Klingemann . After the faltering beginning of her career, she took on smaller and larger roles in the amateur field until her breakthrough came with the lead role in Die Stumme von Portici and she became the local star of the German comedy . She then made a successful guest appearance in cities such as Dresden, Hamburg, Hanover, Bremen, Magdeburg and Berlin.
In 1835 she married the actor Eduard Schütz , who had played the leading role in the premiere of Faust in Braunschweig in 1829 . She herself was considered the best Gretchen of her time. In 1850 she died of cholera .
repertoire
- Suschen in der Groom from Mexico by Heinrich Clauren
- Mirandolina by Carlo Goldoni
- Yelva in Yelva, the Russian orphan by Eugène Scribe
- Queen of 16 years by Jean-François Bayard
- Goldschmied's little daughter from Carl Loewe
- Margarethe in Die Hagestolzen by August Wilhelm Iffland
- Gretchen in Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Anette in The Valet by Eugène Scribe
- Polyxena in Art and Nature by Albini (1777–1838)
- the deaf and mute (in the Abbé de l'Eppee )
- Louise in Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich Schiller
- Pfeffer-Rösel or the Frankfurt fair by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer
literature
- Ludwig von Alvensleben: Johannes Nicolaus Eduard Schütz , in: Biographical pocket book of German stage artists , 2nd year 1837, pp. 1–32 ( digitized version )
- Robert Blumm, Carl Herloßsohn, Herman Marggraff (Hrsg.): General theater lexicon . 6th volume. Altenburg and Leipzig 1842, p. 303 ( digitized version )
- Ladies Conversations Lexicon . Volume 5. O.] 1835, pp. 296-298. ( Digitized version )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Höffert, Charlotte Sophie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schütz, Charlotte Viktorine Sophie; Schütz, Sophie Charlotte Viktorine; Höffert, Sophie; Sophie Schütz-Höffert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | ducal Brunswick court actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Emden |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1850 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |