Friedrich Strampfer

A caricature by Friedrich Strampfer (above) with his deputy Maximilian Steiner (below left), drawn by Karl Klietsch in 1869.

Friedrich Strampfer (born May 23, 1823 in Grimma , Kingdom of Saxony , † April 8, 1890 in Graz ) was an Austrian theater actor, director and director.

Life

As an actor, Strampfer, son of the actor Heinrich Strampfer , worked in Weimar from 1843 to 1845 after starting out in the provinces on the recommendation of Carl von La Roche and Ottilie von Goethe . There he married the prima donna of the court theater Anna von Ottenburg . The Grand Duke declared the marriage invalid (she was Catholic, he was Protestant) and forbade the couple to stay in Weimar. Thereupon went on a wandering and also belonged to the Hofburgtheater in 1847/48 . In 1849 he was able to take over the management of the German theater in Trieste . From 1852 to 1862 he headed the Opera Theater in Timisoara ( Banat ). From 1857 he was again responsible for Trieste and also for the municipal theater in Laibach .

Strampfer discovered the diva Josefine Gallmeyer while still in Timisoara . In 1862 he went to Vienna and until 1869 headed the Theater an der Wien . There he made a name for himself by staging the operettas by Jacques Offenbach . In 1870 he acquired the theater under the Tuchlauben, which was known as the Strampfer Theater until 1874 . There celebrated u. a. Alexander Girardi , Karl Blasel , Friedrich Mitterwurzer and Marie Geistinger great successes. In the 1873/1874 season he also directed the German Theater Budapest. In 1878, Strampfer became director of the Komische Oper ( Ringtheater ) and at the same time also directed the Carltheater . The ring theater fire in 1881 led him to bankruptcy. He then emigrated to the USA . In 1888 Strampfer returned to Vienna and settled down as a writer. The following year he was appointed director of a drama school in Graz . In 1955 the Strampfergasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Strampfer, Friedrich . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 39th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, pp. 232–237 ( digitized version ).
Christian Fastl: Strampfer, Friedrich Ernst Wolfgang. 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 .
Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 1008 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Alexander von Weilen : Friedrich Strampfer . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 496 f.
Hans Pemmer : The Strampfer Theater under the Tuchlauben and its repertoire. In: Viennese history sheets. No. 19 (79), 4, 1964, ISSN 0043-5317 , pp. 353-366.

Web links

Obituary for Friedrich Strampfer. In: Neue Freie Presse , April 9, 1890, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp

Individual evidence

↑ April 7 according to ADB.
^ Franz Metz : The opera as an institution in south-east Europe with special consideration of the Banat music centers Timisoara, Arad and Orawitza , music history in Central and Eastern Europe; 4 (1999), pp. 47-62.

personal data
SURNAME	Strampfer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH	May 23, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grimma , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH	April 8, 1890
Place of death	Graz

[1] April 7 according to ADB.

[2] Franz Metz : The opera as an institution in south-east Europe with special consideration of the Banat music centers Timisoara, Arad and Orawitza , music history in Central and Eastern Europe; 4 (1999), pp. 47-62.