Hortense tailors

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexis-Joseph Perignon : Hortense Schneider in the role of "Boulotte"

Catherine Schneider , called Hortense (born April 30, 1833 in Bordeaux ; † May 5, 1920 in Paris ), was a famous French operetta diva ( soubrette , soprano ) in the Second Empire .

Life

Hortense Schneider was the daughter of a Strasbourg tailor who had settled in Bordeaux and married there. As a child, after the untimely death of her father, she took singing lessons and traveled through the provinces with a theater company. In 1855, on the recommendation of the singer Jean Berthelier , she presented herself to the composer Jacques Offenbach , who was about to open his own theater under the name Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens , and was immediately engaged.

Following numerous roles in Offenbach's smaller operettas , she became the star of four of his great successes: La Belle Hélène ( The beautiful Helena , 1864), Barbe-Bleue (1866), La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (1867) and La Périchole ( 1868). After that she also appeared in Hervé's stage works . After Offenbach's death in 1880, she withdrew from the stage.

She embodied the type of capricious, scandalous diva who became popular after the middle of the 19th century, similar to Marie Geistinger, who was of the same age in the German-speaking area. As the capricious and tyrannical Grand Duchess of the operetta state Gerolstein, she parodied the aristocracy of her time.

Her son Georges André de Gramont-Vachères (1858-1919) comes from her connection with Emmanuel Jean Ludovic de Gramont-Vachères, Duc de Caderousse (1836-1865).

Hortense Schneider died in 1920 at the age of 87. She was buried on the Cimetière protestant in her hometown of Bordeaux.

In 1949 her (and Offenbach's) life was filmed by Marcel Achard under the title La Valse de Paris .

literature

  • Siegfried Kracauer : Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of his time [first published in 1938], ed. by Ingrid Belke, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-58338-7 .
  • Jean-Paul Bonami: La Diva d'Offenbach. Hortense Schneider (1833-1920) . Romillat, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-87894-080-6 .
  • Peter Hawig: Hortense Schneider. Conditions and stations of a success biography . VGDL, Bad Ems 2006, (Bad Emser Hefte, No. 258).
  • Schneider, Hortense . In: Large song dictionary . 2000, p. 21858ff.

Web links

Commons : Hortense Schneider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emmanuel Jean Ludovic DE GRAMONT-VACHÈRES on Geneanet, accessed on August 22, 2016
  2. ^ Siegfried Kracauer: Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of his time [first published in 1938], ed. by Ingrid Belke, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 219-233.
  3. ^ The grave of Hortense Schneider. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on March 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Hortense
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Catherine; Hortense
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French operetta diva
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1920
Place of death Paris