Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller

Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller (born February 20, 1738 in Aderstedt , † August 8, 1815 in Vienna ) was a German actor , writer and comedy poet .

Life

Müller is said to have been called Schröder or Schroeter at first. After the early death of his father, he attended the Latin school of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) from 1749 . When he accidentally started a fire there, he fled the facility. Puppeteers from Lauchstädt had a lasting effect on Müller. He played the play they gave on a self-made theater stage which exploded when gunpowder was ignited and caught fire.

Müller fled to his brother, a pastor in Halle's area. This sent him to the cathedral school in Magdeburg . There he was trained as an actor by Franziskus Schuch and took the family name Müller. In Potsdam he made his first public appearance in the garrison church , which was followed by many more.

From 1763 Müller worked in Vienna and lived there with his family in the Bürgerspitalzinshaus .

In 1767/68 Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller wrote the numbers 11–13 of the Singspiel libretto Bastien and Bastienne , which was set to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .

family

Heinrich Friedrich Füger : The actress Josefa Hortensia Füger, the artist's wife , around 1797, Belvedere , Vienna

Müller's children included:

• Josephine Hortense Müller (born March 31, 1766 Vienna; † 1808 ibid), 1782–1799 court actress, married the painter Heinrich Friedrich Füger in 1790 ,
• Friedrich Josef Müller (born December 19, 1768 Vienna; † September 9, 1834 ibid), 1785–1804 court actor, then k. k. Valet,
• Anna Müller (* 1771 Vienna; † February 11, 1842 ibid), actress, member of the court theater from 1798,
• Victoria Müller (* 1781 Vienna; † February 17, 1802 there), actress.

Works

• The ball, or the staggered jewelry. A comedy in which a Hannswurst appears in two acts , Vienna 1770 (digitized version)
• If the fox dies, the bellows count , rural painting, Vienna 1770
• Four fools in one person , foreplay, Vienna 1770
• The dissimilar brothers , comedy, Vienna 1771
• Countess Tarnow. An original drama in five acts , Vienna 1771 (digitized version )
• The island of love, or Amor, explorer of the heart , comedy, Vienna 1773
• Presented the rifle , comedy, Vienna 1775
• Exact news from the beyden kk Schaubühnen and other public delights in Vienna , Vienna 1772
• Exact news from the two kaiserl. royal Show theaters in Vienna, and the most excellent theaters of the other kais. Hereditary lands. Second part. Along with a comedy , Vienna 1773 (digitized version)
• Diary of beyden kk theaters in Vienna , Vienna 1775
• JHF Müller's farewell to the kk Hof- und National-Schaubühne. With a short biography of his life and a compact history of the local court theater , Vienna 1802 (digitized version)

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Müller, Johann Heinrich Friedrich . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 19th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1868, pp. 382–385 ( digitized version ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Müller, Friedrich Joseph (valet) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 19th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1868, p. 385 ( digital copy ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Müller, Josephine (member of the Hofbühne) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 19th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1868, p. 385 ( digital copy ).
• Maria Murland: Joh. Heinr. Ms. Müller . In: Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and for Anhalt (Hrsg.): Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder. Volume 3, Pictures of Life in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Self-published, Magdeburg 1928, pp. 118-133.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller in the catalog of the German National Library