Johann Baptist Hilverding

Johann Baptist Hilverding (* 1677 in Salzburg ; † August 28/29 , 1721 between Unterwaltersdorf and Vienna ; also Helferting , Hübfertin , Hielferding , Hilluerding or Höllwerding ) was a puppet player, actor and theater principal .

Life

Hilverding was born the son of the puppeteer and Salzburg court comedian Johann Peter Hilverding . He spent his childhood in Salzburg, in 1685 he took part in a tour to Vienna . In 1698 he worked as a puppet player in Vienna, and a little later he married Margarethe Maria Rosetta, who came from a wealthy family of showmen. The couple subsequently traveled to Dresden (1699), Frankfurt am Main and Prague , and later they operated in Cologne and St. Gallen (1702), among others . As a schnapps distiller, Hilverding became a citizen of the city of Vienna.

Hilverdings intensive collaboration with Joseph Anton Stranitzky founded 1705 to 1707 first theater company in Vienna, which from the court mourning after the death of Leopold I . (1706) and that was interrupted after the death of Emperor Joseph I (1711). From 1714 he belonged to the ensemble of the reopened Kärntnerthortheater , whose lease he shared with Stranitzky from 1716 to 1718. After the theater was left to competing Italian actors in 1719, Hilverding and PJ Tilly went to Augsburg until the distribution of privileges was clarified , where Gottfried Prehauser joined the troupe. Then they played in Ulm and Breslau , where they wintered after being rejected from Prague . After a long wait, the imperial privilege finally called him back to Vienna at the Kärntnerthortheater.

Hilverding tried above all to renew the repertoire by procuring numerous opera librettos and entrusting FB Werner with their translation "in a comic-theatrical manner". In 1721, after his death, he left his widow, who later married Prehauser, and his ten children a fortune of 5246 guilders and 6 kreuzers. Hilverding died in the car on the way from Unterwaltersdorf to Vienna (presumably in Moosbrunn or Velm) at bat and was on 29 August 1721 at the cemetery in Velm (Himberg) buried.

effect

Hilverding developed from a successful puppeteer to a theater principal. Parallel to his collaboration with Stranitzky, he practiced his art as a puppeteer at least until the death of Joseph I, so that in the grief and plague years of 1711-13 he was dependent on moving from place to place as a puppeteer. Later he played the role of Anselmo at the Kärntnertheater. His efforts to expand and renew the repertoire by arranging opera librettos were later continued mainly by Heinrich Rademin .

Individual evidence

^ Registers of the Moosbrunn parish, christening, marriage and death register 04 1701-1736, fol. 219f online at matricula-online.eu
↑ Entry in the death register of the Moosbrunn parish.
^ Adolf Scherl, Bärbel Rudin: Johann Baptist Hilverding . In: Alena Jakubcová, Matthias J. Pernerstorfer (Ed.): Theater in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. From the beginning to the end of the 18th century. A lexicon. Newly edited, German-language edition. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7001-6999-4 , p. 277-280 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hilverding, Johann Baptist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Helferting, Johann Baptist; Hübfertin, Johann Baptist; Hielferding, Johann Baptist; Hilluerding, Johann Baptist; Höllwerding, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Actor, theater manager, puppeteer
DATE OF BIRTH	1677
PLACE OF BIRTH	Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH	August 29, 1721
Place of death	Moosbrunn or Velm

[1] Registers of the Moosbrunn parish, christening, marriage and death register 04 1701-1736, fol. 219f online at matricula-online.eu

[2] Entry in the death register of the Moosbrunn parish.

[3] Adolf Scherl, Bärbel Rudin: Johann Baptist Hilverding . In: Alena Jakubcová, Matthias J. Pernerstorfer (Ed.): Theater in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. From the beginning to the end of the 18th century. A lexicon. Newly edited, German-language edition. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7001-6999-4 , p. 277-280 .