Josefine Gallmeyer
Josefine Gallmeyer (born February 27, 1838 in Leipzig , † February 3, 1884 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actress and theater director of German origin.
Life
Josefine Gallmeyer was the illegitimate daughter of the actress Katharina Tomaselli ; her father was the opera singer Michael Greiner . In 1842 she took the name of her stepfather, Christian Gallmeyer .
At the age of 15, Gallmeyer made his debut at the Brno City Theater in 1853 . From there she was engaged at the United German Theater in Budapest . This contract was terminated immediately after a short time because of insubordination and insubordination .
Back in Brno she increasingly appeared as a parodist and was discovered in 1856 by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy . In 1856 he brought her to the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna . The collaboration turned out to be very uncomfortable and Gallmeyer went back to Brno.
In addition to appearances in Brno, she also made guest appearances in Sibiu and Temesvár . The director there, Friedrich Strampfer , hired her for his house and also arranged a tour of Germany for her . She gave a guest appearance at the Viktoriatheater in Berlin and at the Hoftheater in Dresden , but because of her choleric behavior there was only one appearance.
When Friedrich Strampfer took over the Theater an der Wien in 1862 , he brought Gallmeyer to Vienna . Gallmeyer finally achieved her breakthrough with the antics of Ottokar Franz Ebersberg and Karl Costa .
In 1865 she moved to the Carltheater . Jacques Offenbach , whom she promised a role, refused to write a single line for her. From 1875 she ran the Strampfer Theater together with the writer Julius Rosen , which had to close in 1884 due to bankruptcy.
In the years 1882 to 1883 she managed to rehabilitate herself with a tour of the USA . She then performed alternately at the Theater an der Wien , Carltheater , Hamburg , Berlin and Graz .
Characteristic and almost proverbial were their countless affairs and their extravagance. At times Gallmeyer was considered to be very wealthy, but due to her immense charity, she was impoverished when she died in Vienna on February 3, 1884 at the age of 46.
Her grave of honor is located in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 32 A, number 17). In 1928 the Gallmeyergasse in Vienna- Döbling (19th district) was named after her.
Roles (selection)
- Marion - The Prussian Landwehrmann and the French Peasant Woman ( Karl Haffner )
- Star Maiden - The Star Maiden (Karl Haffner).
- Therese - Therese Krones (Karl Haffner)
- Christina - Parisian Life ( Jacques Offenbach )
- Lilly - your family
- Desvarennes - Sergius Panin ( Georges Ohnet )
- Rosa - the spendthrift ( Ferdinand Raimund ).
- Tini - The elegant Tini ( Camillo Walzel )
- Agnes - A Light Person ( August Conradi )
Works
- Novella
- From is' (1982)
- parody
- The Sisters (1982)
- drama
- Out of Sheer Hatred (1883)
- Sarah and Bernhard (1884)
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Gallmeyer, Josephine . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 28th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1874, p. 340 ( digitized version ).
- Adolph Kohut : The largest and most famous German soubrettes of the nineteenth century. With unprinted letters from Josephine Gallmeyer, Marie Geistinger, Ottilie Genée . Bagel, Düsseldorf 1890 1885.
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 303 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Hermann Arthur Lier: Gallmeyer, Josephine . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 739-742.
- E. Döbler: Josefine Gallmeyer . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1935.
- Eduard P. Danzky: The Gallmeyer: the novel of their life . Wancura, Vienna 1953.
- Blanka Glossy: Josefine Gallmeyer. Vienna's greatest popular actress . Waldhein-Eberle, Vienna 1954.
- Gallmeyer Josephine. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 395 f. (Direct links on p. 395 , p. 396 ).
- Gertrud Doublier: Gallmeyer, Josephine. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 53 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Press releases
- † Josephine Gallmeyer .. In: Neue Freie Presse , February 4, 1884, p. 1 (online at ANNO ). and the following pages 2 and 3
- "The resurrection of the 'dashing Pepi'". The weekly magazine Wiener Bilder on the exhumation of Gallmeyer in October 1906 [1]
- The Gallmeyer. On the 50th anniversary of the artist's death. In: Wiener Bilder , February 4, 1934, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gallmeyer, Josefine |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1838 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 1884 |
Place of death | Vienna |