Elise Zöllner

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Elise Zöllner , married Szathmáry , (* 1810 in Pest , † 1862 in Lemberg ) was an Austrian singer and actress, especially in the area of ​​the old Viennese folk theater . She was a contemporary of Ferdinand Raimund and Johann Nestroy , in whose plays she often appeared.

family

Elise Zöllner came from an old and numerous family of actors. Her grandfather was the actor Friedrich Zöllner, her father, also an actor, was Philipp Zöllner (born September 7, 1785 in Pest, † after 1852 in Vienna ).

Friedrich Zöllner directed the theater in Preßburg and later appeared in Pest, where he died after 45 years on the stage. His son Philipp, Elise's father, played minor roles in the theater in Neusatz (today Novi Sad in Serbia ) at the age of 16 . He came to the Theater an der Wien through small-town Hungarian theaters , but finally stayed in Pest for family reasons and then took over the management of the theater in Maria Theresiopel (today Subotica in Serbia). He made guest appearances throughout Hungary with a hiking group and eventually became director in Košice (today Košice in Slovakia ). In 1810 he took over the management of the Pest theater, which he retained until 1824. He worked as an actor and director in Pressburg until 1852, then resigned and lived in Vienna until his death (date unknown). He was the father of a large family that, with one exception - one son became a doctor of medicine - followed the career paths of grandfather and father.

Life and theater career

Elise was born in Pest in 1810 as the second oldest child of the Zöllner family, her sisters were the singers and actresses Katharina, Marie, Christine, Josephine and the soubrette Emma , as well as the brothers Ferdinand and Friedrich, who also worked as actors; the name of the brother who became a doctor is not recorded.

In 1823 she was named in a theater reference work by Johann Wenzel Lembert for the United Theaters of the beyden royals. Freystädte Pesth and Ofen already mentioned as child actress. In 1829 she played Aloe at the premiere of Raimund's Die ominous Zauberkrone in the theater in the Leopoldstadt on December 4, 1830 and took over her roles on this stage after Therese Krones' death (December 28, 1830). The Viennese magazine Der Collector mentions her in 1831 in connection with an appearance by her sister Marie, who stood in for the indisposed Elise,

"[...] our talented Elise Zöllner, who is now keeping an ailment away from the stage [...]"

From 1831 to 1832 she performed together with some family members in the theater of Ofen (today Buda ), in 1837 together with her father in Baden near Vienna as an actress on the combined stages of Pressburg and Baden. From November 1, 1839 to October 31, 1840 she appeared as a guest under the direction of her father Philip in the royal city theater of Pest.

Under director Carl Carl she played alongside Johann Nestroy, Wenzel Scholz , Alois Grois , Karl Treumann , Eleonore Condorussi and Marie Weiler in the Theater an der Wien, among others in Josef Alois Gleichs Posse Schneider, Schlosser and Tischler Marie Engelmann. The theater press often praised her for her good play, as an example, reviews on the occasion of a benefit performance on October 14, 1834 were cited, where Nestroy's one-act play Der Tritschtratsch was also given:

"In the 'dead married couple' Dem. Zöllner played the dead woman with a well-known routine, [...] The finale, in which Dem. Zöllner emerges through singing, is a dance quodlibet [...]" ( Der Wanderer , October 16, 1834, no . 289)
"The. Zöllner was received with lively sympathy as soon as it appeared, […] ” ( Wiener Theaterzeitung , same day, p. 828)

Later she appeared for many years in the Skarbek Theater in Lemberg, where she was very popular in comic roles; she died there too.

Their roles in Nestroy's works (excerpt)

Since at that time only the family name with the indication Miss or Dlle. (Dem.), A mix-up with her sister Emma cannot always be ruled out.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Wenzel Lembert: Paperback for actors and acting friends: For the year 1823. Tendler & Manstein, 1823, p. 349.
  2. ^ The collector: Ein Unterhaltungsblatt Volume 23, Strauss, 1831, p. 16.
  3. ^ Gabriella-Nóra Tar: German-language children's theater in Hungary. LIT Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11863-9 , p. 85.
  4. ↑ Austrian viewer, 3rd edition, Comptoir des Österreichischen viewer, 1837, p. 879.
  5. ^ Almanac for friends of the art of acting. Volume 5, 1840, p. 400.
  6. ^ Friedrich Walla In: Jürgen Hein , Johann Hüttner and others: Johann Nestroy. Complete Works. Historical-critical edition, pieces 7 / II. Pp. 155-157.
  7. ↑ Dem or Dlle. is the abbreviation for Demoiselle (= Fräulein), the name used to describe the unmarried women of an ensemble; the married actresses were titled Mad. ( Madame )
  8. ↑ The founder was Stanislaus Graf Skarbek
personal data
SURNAME Customs officer, Elise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szathmáry, Elise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH pest
DATE OF DEATH 1862
Place of death Lviv