Emma Zöllner

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Emma Zöllner, lithograph by Eduard Kaiser , 1856.

Emma Zöllner (born November 30, 1827 , † 1910 in Vienna ) was an Austrian local singer and soubrette .

Life

Emma Zöllner was a member of the extensive theater family Zöllner, the youngest daughter of Philipp Zöllner (born September 7, 1785 in Pest , † after 1852 in Vienna) and sister of the actress Elise Zöllner , who became famous in Nestroy plays . Her other siblings were the singers and actresses Katharina, Marie, Christine and Josephine, as well as the brothers Ferdinand and Friedrich, who also worked as actors; the name of the one brother who became a doctor is not recorded.

In her first stage time she played on various provincial stages, such as Linz or Lemberg . In Vienna, for many years from 1862, it was a popular soubrette in the Carl and Treumann Theater . Then she married the privateer Alexander Biedermann and withdrew from the stage. In 1875 Emma appeared again in the Komische Oper am Ring , but only for a short time. From 1876 she became a teacher in dramatic training for young actresses. Her husband died in 1877 and she lived as a widow in Vienna until her death.

One of her best-known roles was that of Zilli in the character picture Die Frau Wirthin (1856) by Friedrich Kaiser . With the comedian Alois Grois , she portrayed the then popular contrasting couple “old man - young woman” in some pieces, including in the farce Die Schwarze Frau (1851; as Barnabas Haberstroh and his ward Nanette) by Karl Meisl , in the one-act play Der Gutmüthige Teufel (1851; as a farmer and farmer's wife), and in the Posse Kampl (1853, as Bernhard Brunner and his foster daughter Netti), both pieces by Johann Nestroy. In an early play by this poet, namely the Confused Magician (1832), she is said to have already appeared as "volatile", but here there is apparently a mix-up with her sister Elise. Since at that time only the family name with the indication Miss or Dlle. (Dem.), A later error in the assignment of the two sisters was not uncommon.

She has been described as gracious and graceful in contemporary accounts. In a police file, however, the note "Wüstling" can be found about her . Such derogatory statements were not uncommon at the time, especially among theater people; A police report from 1854 about Nestroy's ex-wife Wilhelmine Nespiesni reads: "Nestroy has been judicially divorced from his morally depressed wife for 29 years [...]"

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Fastl: Zöllner, Johann Friedrich. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 . Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ Urs Helmensdorfer: The song is a Proteus , LIT Verlag Münster, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8258-0742-9 ; P. 12. [1]
  3. ↑ Dlle. or Dem. is the abbreviation for Demoiselle (= Fräulein), the name used to describe the unmarried women of an ensemble; the married actresses were titled Mad. (Madame)
  4. ↑ Hugo Aust (Ed.): Johann Nestroy, pieces 30. In: Jürgen Hein , Johann Hüttner , Walter Obermaier , W. Edgar Yates : Johann Nestroy, Complete Works, Historical-Critical Edition. Franz Deuticke Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-216-30348-9 ; Pp. 528-529.
  5. ↑ see also Johann Nestroy # Ehe mit Wilhelmine Nespiesni
personal data
SURNAME Customs officer, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biedermann, Elise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian local singer and soubrette
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1827
DATE OF DEATH 1910
Place of death Vienna