Johanna Goecking
Johanna Göcking , married Johanna Lami , ( July 31, 1791 in Berlin - February 21, 1843 in Riga ) was a German theater actress .
Life
Johanna Göcking came from a respected Prussian family and married Mr. Lami at an early age. From this marriage there were at least two sons. Johanna Göcking soon lived apart from her husband and took her maiden name again, under which she was also active on the stage.
After several engagements abroad, she was engaged by Karl von Holtei in autumn 1837 , when he took over the city theater in Riga. She made her debut as "Neighbor" in the play That Was Me by the Austrian writer Johann Hutt and was a resounding success. As a result, she became a crowd favorite in Riga; An obituary in the Almanac for Friends of the Dramatic Art reads: “She was a thoroughly educated, brilliant artist, and in her field, even on the largest German theaters, should have only a few equal rivals, if only because the complaint about the lack of capable actresses for the subject of the comic old man is a fairly general one. "
Johanna Göcking stepped down from the stage already suffering and, after an exhausting role, fell ill with all the symptoms of a dangerous nervous fever that put an end to her life on February 21, 1843. On March 2, 1843, she was buried in the cemetery of St. Peter's Church in Riga with great sympathy and not only from the theater staff. It was planned to decorate her grave with a cast iron monument, the cost of which the theater staff and some art lovers wanted to pay.
literature
- L. Wolff (Ed.): Almanach for Friends of Drama: on the year 1843 , Volume 8, Berlin, 1844, pp. 108 to 115
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 565, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Hutt (1774–1808) was often written as "Johann Huth". He was chancellor in the kk police headquarters in Vienna. In 1805 the first volume of his comedies came out. See Friedrich Schnapp, From ETA Hoffmann's time in Bamberg . In: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 7, 1966, p. 129, note 21.
- ↑ L. Wolff (Ed.): Almanach for Friends of Drama: on the year 1843 , Volume 8, Berlin, 1844, p. 110.
- ↑ L. Wolff (Ed.): Almanach for Friends of Drama: on the year 1843 , Volume 8, Berlin, 1844, p. 113.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goecking, Johanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lami, Johanna (married name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1791 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1843 |
| Place of death | Riga |