Henriette Louise von Kawaczynski

Henriette Louise von Kawaczynski , nee Henriette von Pieglowski , widowed Henriette Schäffer ( April 22, 1790 in Gardelegen - September 25, 1864 in Coburg ) was a German child actress , dancer and theater actress .

Life

Kawaczysnki was the daughter of a Prussian captain who was soon relocated to Magdeburg, where she received her first suggestions for dramatic art. So it came about that she joined the Ruthschen Actor and Children's Society when she was ten years old and traveled all over Germany and Switzerland with the same until she was eighteen. Of course, she later played the subject of the first lovers, but also excelled as a first solo dancer. In 1816 she married the theater director Franz Schäffer in Freiburg, where she was currently engaged. Now she gained the favor of the German audience, partly as a guest, partly as a volunteer, and it was especially the roles of heroines and salon ladies that established her reputation. So she shone as the first actress on the first stages. When her husband died in 1831, she married Friedrich Wilhelm von Kawaczynski . In 1834 she took on engagement at the court theater in Coburg, where she worked for a full 16 years in chargeable and mother roles and was highly valued in all walks of life. In 1850 this brilliant artist retired. Her busy life dedicated to art ended on September 25, 1864 with a gentle death.

literature

Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 501, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical handbook , Volume 2, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960, pp. 971 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Kawaczynski, Henriette Louise von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pieglowski, Henriette von (maiden name); Schäffer, Henriette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German child actress, dancer and theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH	April 22, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH	Guards
DATE OF DEATH	September 25, 1864
Place of death	Coburg