Heinrich Anschütz

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Heinrich Anschütz, lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber , 1855

Heinrich Johann Immanuel Anschütz (born February 8, 1785 in Luckau , † December 29, 1865 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian actor .

Life

Heinrich Anschütz was the son of a former soldier, the director of the Luckau orphanage; the later court actor Eduard Anschütz was his brother. In 1794 the family moved to Leipzig, where he went to the theater for the first time. He saw the Dresden Court Acting Society under Franz Sekonda . Anschütz attended the St. Augustin grammar school in Grimma (former Princely School ). In 1804 he began to study law at the University of Leipzig . He also regularly attended the Goethetheater in Bad Lauchstädt and the Weimar Court Theater (under the direction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ).

Especially the guest performances by and with Ferdinand Eßlair , August Iffland and Pius Alexander Wolff made Anschütz give up his studies and become an actor. According to Anschütz himself, he was also very influenced by the theater director Friedrich Ludwig Schröder .

At the age of 22, Anschütz made his debut at the Stadttheater in Nuremberg in 1807 ; in the role of Adolf von Klingsberg ("The Two Klingsberg" by August von Kotzebue ). In 1810, Anschütz married the singer Josephinekette (1793 – after 1822), who divorced him in 1817 (their son Alexander Anschütz (1815–1868) also became an opera singer.) Anschütz worked in Nuremberg until 1811 and was then for two Years engaged at the theater in Gdansk .

In 1814 Anschütz went to Breslau and was under contract at the theater there until 1821. From there, Anschütz was brought to the Burgtheater in Vienna, where he excelled as an actor and also worked as a director for many years. In 1818 he married his second wife in Vienna, the actress Emilie Butenop (* 1795 - June 17, 1866 in Vienna), daughter of the theater director Karl Heinrich Butenop . With her he had four children, the actress Marie Emilie Auguste Koberwein (who was married to the painter Georg Koberwein ), the playwright Roderich Anschütz and a daughter named Rosa Johanna Wilhelmine (born 1830). In Vienna, Anschütz became a member of the literary society Die Ludlamshöhle , where he a. a. came into contact with Castelli , Grillparzer and Salieri .

In his memoirs, Anschütz also describes a memorable encounter with Beethoven that took place in Döbling in the summer of 1822 . The composer spontaneously took up Anschütz 'suggestion to compose incidental music for Macbeth . However, the project was not implemented. When Franz Grillparzer wrote a funeral speech on the occasion of Beethoven's funeral on March 29, 1827 , he expressly asked for Anschütz to be the speaker. However, Anschütz revised the speech and changed the ending.

In 1857, Anschütz was able to celebrate his 50th anniversary as an artist, with the public enthusiastically participating; his forty years of membership in the Burgtheater ensemble was celebrated in 1861. The Austrian playwright Friedrich Halm wrote a much-noticed poem about Heinrich Anschütz on the occasion of this anniversary.

Anschütz was a Freemason ; He is listed as First Overseer among the members of the Viennese Lodge Zum Heiligen Joseph, which existed briefly in 1848 .

On June 4, 1865, Anschütz was seen on stage for the last time; in the role of the musician Müller . Six months later he died at the age of 80 on December 29, 1865. His grave is in the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery in Vienna (crypt 70).

Heinrich Anschütz grave

In 1894, the Anschützgasse in Vienna Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15th district) was named after him.

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Autobiography

  • Heinrich Anschütz, memories from his life and work . Vienna 1866

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Anschütz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josephinekette-Anschütz at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer LexiconTemplate: Operissimo / maintenance / use of parameter 2
  2. ↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 13-15.
  3. ↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz, Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 389-392 (both versions).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Full text "Memories ..." on Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Anschütz, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anschütz, Heinrich Johann Immanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Luckau
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1865
Place of death Vienna