Johanna Buska

Johanna Buska (1880)

Grave of Johanna Buska and her mother in the Evangelical Cemetery in the Strašnice district of Prague

Johanna Buska (born April 14, 1847 or 1848 in Königsberg , † May 16, 1922 in Dresden ) was an actress and opera singer .

Life

After engagements at the Burgtheater and an affair with the Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf , she married the Hungarian nobleman Miklós Kázmér (Nikolaus Casimir) Török de Szendrő on May 20, 1880. A child was born during the four-year marriage, possibly from Rudolf. After Török's death, the actress married the Prague theater manager and singer Angelo Neumann . She returned to the stage and played Ibsen's Nora in Prague in 1888 ; At the beginning of the twentieth century she appeared in Schönthan's comedy Im colorful rock .

Johanna Buska's first marriage inspired Theodor Fontane to write his novel Count Petöfy . A letter from Johanna Buska to Julius Rodenberg is kept in the Weimar Classic and Art Collections Foundation ; In the Austrian National Library there are several autographs by the actress, especially from the Otto Frankfurter collection. The Alfred Reucker archive of the Akademie der Künste also contains autographs and photos by Johanna Buska from the time of Angelo Neumann's death in December 1910.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Török von Szendrö, Johanna Countess . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 45th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1882, p. 262 f. ( Digitized version ).
Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . List, Leipzig 1903, pp. 144-145.
Egon Erwin Kisch : Marketplace of Sensations . Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-7466-5058-5 .

Web links

Commons : Johanna Buska - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

^ According to the death register of the city of Dresden, registry office Dresden XIV; there date of birth given as 1860.
^ Archive performing arts: Alfred Reucker archive. Academy of Arts, accessed August 18, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Buska, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Török de Szendrö, Johanna; Neumann-Buska, Johanna; Neumann, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actress and opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 14, 1847 or April 14, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH	May 16, 1922
Place of death	Dresden

[1] According to the death register of the city of Dresden, registry office Dresden XIV; there date of birth given as 1860.

[2] Archive performing arts: Alfred Reucker archive. Academy of Arts, accessed August 18, 2015 .