Joseph Schütz (actor)

Joseph Karl August Schütz , also Josef Karl August Schütz (baptized August 22, 1790 in Spandau ; † February 10, 1840 in Milan ) was a German actor, opera singer (baritone), librettist and theater entrepreneur.

Life

Carl Schütz was born as the son of a Prussian officer ( Evangelical Augsburg Confession ) and played at the Vienna Hofburgtheater from 1816 to 1818 . Until May 1819 he was head of the Linz Landständische Theater , where he organized the first performances of works by Franz Grillparzer ( Die Ahnfrau , Sappho , both 1818) and Gioacchino Rossini ( Tancredi , 1818, La gazza ladra , 1819), but had no financial success . He then went to the Theater an der Wien as a singer (baritone) and actor , but quickly moved to Amsterdam , where he managed the Hoogduitse Schouwburg Amsterdam as an entrepreneur , to which he had also engaged Johann Nestroy . However, this German theater was dissolved in 1825.

Schütz then accompanied his extremely successful wife Amalie to Paris and other European metropolises and was for a time director of the Teatro Carcano in Milan.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schütz, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 32nd part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1876, p. 134 ( digital copy ).
• Edith Grünsteidl: The history of the Linz rural theater in the 19th century. Vienna, 1970, (Vienna, University, dissertation, 1970).
• Jürgen Hein : Nestroy in Amsterdam. In: Nestroyana. Vol. 8, No. 3/4, 1988, ISSN  1027-3921 , pp. 52-70.
• Henk J. Koning: Nestroy in Amsterdam. On the reception of his pieces on the Dutch stage in the 19th century. In: Nestroyana. Vol. 14, No. 3/4, 1994, pp. 91-100.
• Clemens Höslinger , Hubert Reitterer :  Schütz Amalie. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 299 f. (Direct links on p. 299 , p. 300 ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association.