Jetty Treffz
Jetty Treffz [ ˈjɛti ], actually: Henriette Caroline Josefa Challubetzky , married Henriette Strauss-Treffz (born July 1, 1818 in Josefstadt near Vienna; † April 8, 1878 in Hietzing near Vienna) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ) and the first Wife of Johann Strauss' son .
Life
Henriette Chalupetzky was born in her grandfather's house at Josefstadt 101 (then 95), today Josefstädter Straße 28, Piaristengasse 42. Her father Joseph Chalupetzky came from a family of goldsmiths and silversmiths who had immigrated from Bohemia ; her mother Henriette Wilhelmine Treffz (1794–1871) came from a family of civil servants in Württemberg and was the great-granddaughter of the publisher Christian Friedrich Schwan : Henriette Chalupetzky's grandmother was Margarethe Treffz, nee. Schwan, from Abstatt , who became known as Schiller's childhood sweetheart Laura through his works.
The parents separated early. Afterwards, mother and daughter took the surname Treffz (again). With the fortune that Mother Treffz had inherited from Schwan, an upper-class lifestyle was possible in the Treffz household.
Henriette “Jetty” Treffz was trained as a singer at a very young age. Her teacher was Giovanni Gentiluomo . In 1837, at the age of 19, she made her debut at the Wiener Theater am Kärntnertor . This was followed by appearances at the Dresden Court Theater with Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient , in Brno and in Leipzig from 1839 to 1841 . Then Henriette Treffz-Chalupetzky returned to the Kärntnertortheater. From 1844 to 1848 she sang in the Theater in der Josefstadt and with Jenny Lind in the Theater an der Wien .
In 1844 her liaison began with the wealthy Jewish factory owner and co-owner of the Marienthal textile factory , Moriz von Todesco (1816–1873, posthumous spelling: Moritz). With him she had two of her seven illegitimate children, the two daughters Franziska (1846–1921) and Louise Henriette Aloisia (1850–?), Who were adopted by Todesco, not least to give them better chances on the marriage market ( Marriages of daughters see here ).
Henriette's sons Alois, Heinrich, Emil and Alfred came from other relationships, and she had an illegitimate daughter, Henriette, with the Italian builder Peter Cavaliere di Galvagni (1797–1868) even before her relationship with Todesco .
Although she was never married to Moriz von Todesco for religious reasons, she liked to be called Baroness Todesco - actually a double label fraud, because in addition to the illegitimacy of the relationship, Todesco was only knighted in 1861, the title baron or baron was only used Deathco's older brother Eduard from 1869. When she moved out of the Todesco apartment in the 1st district at the beginning of 1862 and thus parted ways with Todesco, he paid her a high severance payment. She left her two daughters with the adoptive father.
Johann Strauss Sohn (1825–1899) had known her for 15 years when she married him on August 27, 1862 in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna . The couple had their residence in the 2nd district, Praterstrasse 54; Johann composed the Danube Waltz there (today the "Johann Strauss Apartment" of the Wien Museum ).
In the Maxingstraße (then it was called Hetzendorferstraße) in the Vienna suburb of Hietzing (since 1892 13th District) referred the couple in 1862, a summer residence; Johann Strauss bought the house, which was used again and again until Jetty's death , opposite the park of Schönbrunn Palace , the imperial summer residence, and composed most of his operetta Die Fledermaus there in the summer of 1873 .
Henriette Strauss became the manager of the extremely successful composer and relieved her husband of the preparations for tours and the work of copying music. Historians believe that they led Strauss to composing operettas.
She died on April 8, 1878, presumably of a stroke, in the Hietzinger house. Jetty Treffz's honorary grave is located in the Hietzinger Friedhof on Maxingstrasse (group 13, number 73); other members of the Strauss and Strauss families are also buried there.
In 1955, in the Auhofer Trennstück estate on the southern edge of Vienna's 13th district, a street previously named after "Turnvater" Jahn was renamed Treffzgasse.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Treffz, Henriette . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 47th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1883, pp. 93–96 ( digitized version ).
- Hermann Arthur Lier : Henriette Strauss . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 535.
- Klaus Konrad Dillmann: The adventurous life of Franz August Treffz, Jetty Treffz-Strauss, Germain Metternich. Weinberg 2000.
- Th. Aigner: Strauss (Strauss) Henriette (Jetty). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 376 f. (Direct links on p. 376 , p. 377 ).
Web links
- Entry on Jetty Treffz in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Parish Maria Treu, baptismal register Tom. 10, fol. 138 .
- ↑ The house was called "Zum Grundstein", one of the oldest houses in Josefstadt from 1697, demolished in 1898 and replaced by a new building. From: Elfriede Faber: Jetty Strauss, a child of Josefstadt . In: Bezirksmuseum Josefstadt (Ed.): In the footsteps of Johann Strauss in Josefstadt . Vienna, 1999, pp. 20-23.
- ↑ http://aeiou.iicm.tugraz.at/js-frau.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Treffz, Jetty |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Challubetzky, Henriette Caroline Josefa; Strauss-Treffz, Henriette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera singer (soprano) and the first wife of Johann Strauss' son |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1878 |
| Place of death | Hietzing near Vienna |