Jenny Lutzer

Jenny Lutzer, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1839

Role model of Jenny Dingelstedt, geb. Lutzer, as Jessonda in the opera of the same name by Louis Spohr (1823)

Jenny Lutzer , married Dingelstedt (born March 4, 1816 in Prague , † October 3, 1877 in Vienna ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Jenny Lutzer received singing lessons as a child and was on stage for the first time at the age of 16. From 1837 to 1842 she was a celebrated coloratura soprano and soubrette at the Vienna Court Opera . During this time she was also appointed kk chamber singer . In 1843 she married the poet and theater manager Franz Freiherrn von Dingelstedt , whom she followed to Stuttgart in 1843 , to Munich in 1850 and finally to Weimar .

She died in Vienna in 1877 and rests in the central cemetery (5A-4-80) next to her husband Franz von Dingelstedt in an honorary grave .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Lutzer, Jenni . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, pp. 175–177 ( digitized version ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Dingelstedt, Jenny von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 24th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1872, p. 390 ( digital copy ).
• Joseph Kürschner:  Lutzer, Jenny . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 719 f.
• Hermann Arthur Lier:  Dingelstedt-Lutzer, Jenny . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 725 f.
• Antonicek:  Lutzer Jenny. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 381.

Remarks

1. ^ House of death: Kärntner Strasse 44, Vienna-Innere Stadt . - See: Little Chronicle. (...) Freifrau v. Dingelstedt †. In:  Wiener Zeitung , October 4, 1877, p. 5, center left. (Online at ANNO ).