Johann Baptist Bergopzoomer

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Johann Baptist Bergopzoomer , also Johann Baptist Bergopzoom (born September 9, 1742 in Vienna ; † January 12, 1804 there ) was an Austrian actor, theater director and theater poet.

Life

After starting his career as a printer and a campaign as a soldier in the Seven Years' War , he made his debut as an actor in Vienna in 1764 and then went to the Kurz Society in Munich . There he befriended the actor Friedrich Ludwig Schröder . In 1771 he became director of the theater in Prague , and in 1774 he returned to Vienna as an actor. In 1774 Bergopzoomer married the singer Katharina Leitner, known as Schindler. In 1782 the couple separated. In the same year the brochure Bergopzoom's Last Word to the Viennese public was published . Then he complains of promised and withdrawn contracts, serious illnesses lasting several weeks during which intrigues were spun against him, roles that were not received or the court's withheld indictments of mercy on the grounds that “Se. Your Majesty the Emperor knows that you do not need it ”. Bergopzoom comments on this with the words: "As if one had to claim the graces of the court through cunning and deceit, through eating and drinking, through blaming and putting people on, and other wickedness?" Bergopzoom calls his colleagues Johann Gottlieb Stephanie (Stephanie the Younger), who was in open hostility towards him.

After leaving Vienna, he first went to Brno as a theater entrepreneur and in 1789 to the prose theater in Budapest . In 1791 he came in the role of Richard III. back to the Vienna Court Theater . His own plays had only short-lived success.

Works

Stage works

  • The Officier , comedy in one act, 1768
  • The Unhappy Marriage , Tragedy in Verse and 5 Acts, 1769
  • The customs of the present time , comedy in 2 acts, 1770 ( digitized )
  • The old man , occasional piece at Maria Theresa's name festival in one act, 1771
  • The Widow , aftermath in one act, 1772
  • The Player , Comedy in 5 Acts (from the French), 1773
  • The Universal Heir , comedy in 5 acts (from the French), 1774
  • The Scattered , Comedy in 5 Acts (from the French), 1775
  • In times of need you get to know your friends , comedy in 5 acts, 1776 ( digitized )
  • Graf von Waltron or the Subordination , libretto for the Singspiel by Ignaz Walter , 1784 ( digitized )
  • several unprinted dramas

Other fonts

  • Bergobzoom's last word to the Viennese audience , 1782 ( digitized version )
  • Theater mirror of all mourning, show, pleasure, singing and replay, ballets and side performances which are on Brno City Theater from November 2nd 1786 until the end of Carnival on the 5th Hornung in 1788. In addition to naming the old and new society, deaths and other special occurrences . Brno 1788 ( digitized version )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bergopzoom, Johann Baptist: Bergopzooms last word to the Viennese public . Vienna 1782, p. 14 .
  2. ↑ librettos by Johann Baptist Bergopzoomer in DFG-opera project
  3. ↑ August Förster:  Bergopzoomer, Johann Baptist . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 396 f.
personal data
SURNAME Bergopzoomer, Johann Baptist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergopzoom, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, theater director and theater poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1804
Place of death Vienna