Dorothea Devrient

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Doris Devrient ( Hanns Hanfstaengl , around 1860)

Dorothea Devrient , also Doris Devrient , née Doris Böhler , ( February 20, 1804 in Kassel - May 29, 1882 in Blasewitz ) was a German theater actress and singer ( soprano ).

Life

Doris Böhler was the daughter of the lawyer and actor Wilhelm Böhler and the actress Julia Böhler. The early death of her father prompted her mother and sister to accept an engagement at the Estates Theater in Prague in 1816 . There she already appeared in children's roles.

Together with her older sister Karoline Christine Böhler , who later married Eduard Franz Genast , they came to the Stadttheater in Leipzig in 1818 , which was then under the direction of Karl Theodor von Küstner . Here, too, she played in children's roles.

Little by little she trained to become a naive lover, in which she soon mastered. In 1828 she left Leipzig with her husband Gustav Emil Devrient and went to Hamburg. In 1831 she was appointed to the Dresden Court Theater.

In 1842 she fell in love with a Polish merchant. Since Devrient did not consent to a divorce, she filed a complaint against herself as an adulterous woman and was sent to jail for it, but she got divorced. This scandal also ended her stage career as a court actress in 1843. Dismissed again, she married her lover and went to Poland with him. This marriage also failed and she returned to Dresden.

Devrient was considered a soubrette of the very first order in both drama and opera.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition ; older sources such as Eisenberg give 1805 as the year of birth without an exact date, the University of Frankfurt am Main also gives 1802 as the year of birth  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de  

See also

literature

  • Carl Lembert: paperback for actors and acting enthusiasts for the year 1816 . Stuttgart / Munich 1815, p. 206: "plays small roles in drama and opera"
  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Dorothea Devrient . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 189 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).

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personal data
SURNAME Devrient, Dorothea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Devrient, Doris; Böhler, Doris (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actress and singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1882
Place of death Blowjoke