Caroline Demmer

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Caroline Friederike Wilhelmine Demmer b. Krüger (born February 12, 1764 in Berlin , † April 14, 1813 in Vienna ) was a German- Austrian actress and singer .

Life

Caroline Krüger was the sister of the actor Karl Friedrich Krüger (1765–1828) and began her theater career in 1779, at the age of 15. In 1786/87 she was engaged by Joseph Bellomo in Weimar , 1788/89 by Gustav Friedrich Großmann , then with the Dietrich Society, where she married the singer and actor Carl Demmer from Cologne .

On November 16, 1790, she wrote from Düsseldorf to Franz Kirms, the court chamberlain in Weimar, and again applied for a position there. She mentioned: “But I have to tell you beforehand that I… changed and married the brother of Mr. Demmer who was with me in Weimar at the time. My husband is the first tenor and plays first and second young lovers in comedy ..., he has a very pleasant voice and is firmly musically. "On the same day she applied again to Großmann, to whom she also informed:" I have now married, my husband is first tenor and also plays lover in comedy, my brother is with us too. "

Together with her husband she came to the court theater in Weimar on February 4, 1791, where she was supported by Goethe and Schiller . In April / May 1794 both went to Frankfurt am Main , where Carl Demmer in particular was very popular. Goethe's mother mentions him in several letters to her son.

In the spring of 1804 both finally accepted an engagement at the Theater an der Wien and traveled from Frankfurt via Regensburg , where they arrived on March 7th, to Vienna. Caroline Demmer made her debut there on August 8, 1804 in the Theater am Kärntnertor as Duval's wife in the comedy Viktorine oder Wohlthun carries Zinsen by Friedrich Ludwig Schröder .

In 1813 the family lived at Laimgrube No. 26, which means in an official apartment of the Theater an der Wien, where Caroline Demmer died on April 14, 1813 at the age of 49 "of lung addiction" (tuberculosis).

family

The marriage of Carl and Caroline Demmer resulted in numerous important Viennese actresses and actors, including

  • Friedrich Demmer (* 1785 in Berlin; † April 15, 1838 in Mariahilf near Vienna), worked as a singer from September 1829 to 1834, then as chief director of the kk Hofopertheater until his death,
  • Jeannette Schmidt born Demmer (born April 5, 1794 in Weimar; † March 14, 1862 in Vienna),
  • Josefine Scutta b. Demmer (born September 19, 1795 in Frankfurt am Main, † December 22, 1863 in Vienna), wife of Andreas Scutta , both spouses known as stage colleagues of Johann Nestroy and Wenzel Scholz ,
  • Thekla Demmer , married Kneisel (* 1802 in Frankfurt am Main, † 23 August 1832 in Vienna), also stage partner of Nestroy and Ferdinand Raimund .

literature

  • Ernst Pasqué : Goethe's theater management in Weimar , Leipzig 1863, first volume, pp. 73–78 (digitized version )
  • Catalog of the portrait collection of the kuk General-Intendanz of the kk Hoftheater. At the same time a biographical guide in the field of theater and music. Second division. Group IV. Wiener Hoftheater , Vienna 1892, p. 296.
  • Albert Richard Mohr , Frankfurter Theater von der Wandertruppe zum Komödienhaus , Frankfurt 1967, p. 157.
  • Margret Dietrich and Elisabeth Grossegger: The Burgtheater and its audience. Festival ceremony for the 200th anniversary of the elevation of the Burgtheater to National Theater. Vienna 1989

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno Thomas Satori-Neumann, The early days of the Weimar court theater and Goethe's direction , Berlin 1922, pp. 29–31.
  2. ↑ Pasqué (1863), pp. 74-76.
  3. ^ Leipzig, university library , manuscript collection
  4. ↑ Christian August Vulpius, A correspondence on the cultural history of the Goethe era , ed. by Andreas Meier, Berlin 2003, Volume 2, p. 79.
  5. ↑ Cf. Dieter Haberl, Das Regensburgische Diarium (Intellektivenblatt) as a music-historical source , Regensburg 2012, p. 391.
  6. ^ Vienna, Theater Museum, collection of notice papers
  7. ^ Wiener Zeitung , No. 51 of April 29, 1813, Official Gazette , p. 158
  8. ^ A. Hofmann-Wellenhof:  Schmidt (Schmiedt), (Maria) Johanna Carolina (Jeanette); born Demmer (1794–1862), actress. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 275.
personal data
SURNAME Demmer, Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demmer, Caroline Friederike Wilhelmine (full name); Krüger, Caroline (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1813
Place of death Vienna