Henriette Baranius

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Copper engraving by Johann Friedrich Bolt

Henriette Rahel Baranius , b. Husen (born September 20, 1768 in Danzig , † June 5, 1853 in Berlin ) was a German actress and opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Henriette Baranius b. Husen was appointed to the Berlin Court Opera in 1784, where she worked until 1797.

In 1788 she married the actor August Wilhelm Baranius , from whom she divorced after two years.

One of Henriette Baranius' best-known roles was the blonde in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail , which was played in Berlin under the title Belmonte and Constanze . When Mozart was in Berlin in May 1789, he is said to have frequented her and fell in love with her.

In an anonymous article about the members of the Berlin theater from 1796, Henriette Baranius is portrayed as a great beauty and an excellent singer and actress. In addition, she handled a tremendous amount of work, starring almost every night. Her departure from the stage the following year was generally viewed as a great loss.

In 1799 Baranius married Johann Friedrich Ritz , who was the secret chamberlain of King Friedrich Wilhelm II, who died in 1797, and husband Wilhelmine Enkes , the king's lover. In 1799, Ritz built the Villa Ritz for Henriette in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam , Berliner Straße No. 136.

literature

  • Hermann Abert , WA Mozart , 8th edition, Leipzig 1973
  • Clemens Alexander Wimmer, The life of the former secret chamberlain JF Ritz in Potsdam 1797–1809 , in: Communications of the Sanssouci Study Society eV Association for Culture and History Potsdam , Potsdam 1998

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henriette Baranius as "Blondchen" at the Berlin Opera . Engraving by Friedrich Bott, Berlin 1796; at Zeno.org .
  2. ↑ Anonymous, view of the situation of the Berlin Nazionaltheater, at the end of the year 1796 , in: Lyceum der Schöne Künste , Volume 1, Part 1, Berlin 1797, pp. 79–131.
personal data
SURNAME Baranius, Henriette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baranius, Henriette Rahel (full name); Husen, Henriette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1853
Place of death Berlin