Christof Fries

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Johann Georg Christof Fries , also Christoph Fries , (1787 or 1788 in Nuremberg - 10. November 1857 in Regensburg ) was a German opera singer ( bass ), actor , stage and costume designer .

Life

Fries came from a Nuremberg artist family. His father Anton Fries was a painter and drawing teacher. On February 6, 1809, he made his debut as an actor at the Bamberg Theater , where he also worked as a set designer, where he also received singing lessons from ETA Hoffmann .

From February 1811 to 1816 he worked at the Nuremberg Theater and during this time took singing lessons from Caroline Reuter . In May 1814 he made a guest appearance in Munich, albeit unsuccessfully.

In 1816 he went on a tour from Nuremberg (including in March in Prague), but did not return to Nuremberg, breaking his contract, but went to Hanover (until 1817) to see August Pichler . From there he also made guest appearances in Mannheim.

Despite the breach of contract, he was engaged again at the Nuremberg Theater from spring 1817 to spring 1818.

He then made guest appearances, largely unsuccessfully, from 1818 to 1820 in Frankfurt am Main (April / May 1818, unsuccessful), Hanover (September 1819), Berlin (October 1819) and at the Theater an der Wien (early 1820, unsuccessful).

In 1820 he was hired at the Munich Court Theater and stayed there until his retirement in July 1857. There he also worked as a costume designer and decorative painter.

In December 1814 he married his colleague Adelheid Spitzeder in Nuremberg . The marriage was divorced in 1833, in 1836 he married Louise Gostlozky, a dancer.

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  1. Karl Theodor Winkler (Ed.): Tagebuch der Deutschen Bühnen 1816 , Dresden, p. 237.