Justina Benda
Catharina Justina Benda , also Auguste Benda and Justel Benda , married Auguste Zimdar , (baptized June 2, 1757 in Gotha ; † after 1815 ), was a German singer (soprano) and actress , the only daughter of the court conductor and composer Georg Anton Benda . In 1779 she married the actor Karl Friedrich Zimdar , in 1797 the actor Adolph Noel Blanchard .
Life
Justel Benda received vocal training from the Gotha court singer Anna Franziska Hattasch , sister of her father Georg Anton Benda. She made her debut at the Gotha Court Theater in 1776 as Laura in the world premiere of his opera Romeo and Julie (libretto by Gotter based on Shakespeare ).
In early 1778 Georg Anton Benda followed the call of theater director Friedrich Ludwig Schröder to Hamburg with his daughter Justina, son Hermann Christian and nephew Heinrich Christoph Hattasch . Contrary to her father's wishes, Justina got engaged to the actor and dramaturge Karl Friedrich Zimdar , also to the chagrin of August Wilhelm Iffland, who was still making his debut in Gotha at the time, and married in early 1779 shortly after the departure of her relatives.
After Schröder's resignation from the management of the theater, the Zimdar couple moved to the Schwedt court theater in 1780 , then to Brno (director Romanus Waitzhofer ) in 1782 , Mainz and Göttingen in 1783 (Großmannsche Gesellschaft), 1784 Estates Theater Prague (Second Bondin Society ), 1786 Dresden (First Bonin Society) ), 1787/88 Breslau ( Wäsersche Gesellschaft ), 1789 Hoftheater Schleswig (director Abel Seyler ), where Zimdar put an end to his life in 1792.
In 1894, widow Justina Zimdar and her daughter Caroline Zimdar , who had already performed in children's roles in Schwedt, rejoined the Wäserschen Gesellschaft in Breslau, to which her cousin Sophia Carolina Benda (daughter of Franz Benda ), her later son-in-law, the actor, Director and writer Maximilian Scholz (1744–1834), as well as her future husband, the actor Adolph Noel Blanchard (1765–1832), belonged. Until 1815 “Mad. Blanchard ”in Wroclaw.
- family
Four siblings of Justina Benda also had a career on German stages:
- Friedrich Ludwig Benda (1752–1792), violin virtuoso a. Composer in Mannheim, Hamburg, Ludwigslust and Königsberg
- Heinrich Benda (1754 – before 1806), violinist initially also with the Seyler Society, later at the Döbbelin Theater in Berlin
- Hermann Christian Benda (1759–1805), singer and actor, in Hamburg, Berlin, most recently at the Weimar court theater under Goethe
- Carl Ernst Eberhard Benda (1764–1824), initially as an actor and singer in Berlin at the Döbbelin Theater, then for many years at the court theater there
See also
Stage roles (selection)
- Laura in Romeo and Julie, opera by Georg Anton Benda, libretto by Gotter after Shakespeare
- Wilhelmine in Der Holzhauer , Singspiel by Georg Anton Benda
- Raisin in The Lawyer and the Farmer von Rautenstrauch
- Hannchen in The Good Girl, operetta by Goldini / Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Piccinni
- Hannchen in Lucas and Hannchen, opera by Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann
- Louise in caught, caught, comedy by Johann Karl Wezel
- Zemire in Zemire and Azor, Opera by Marmotel - Grétry
- Gassilde in Sancho Panza , operetta by Poinsinet / Eschenburg - Philidor
- Maria in Das Mädchen im Eichthal, Singspiel by (Johann Christian) Bock- Lampe
- Fideline in The Laundry Girl , an operetta based on Bock- Zannetti
- The general's niece in Der Adjutant, comedy by Wilhelm Heinrich Brömel
- Isidore in Adrast and Isidore or the Serenate, opera after Molière by Bretzner - by Kospoth
- Belinde in Die Colonie, operetta by Antonio Sacchini
- Juliane in Juliane von Lindorak, a play by Schröder and Gotter based on Doride von Gozzi
- Arsène in The beautiful Arsène of Favart - Monsigny
- Clarisse in The Conceited Philosophers of Paesiello
- Kunegunde in Oda, tragedy by Babo
- Wilhelmine in No more than six bowls, a comedy by Großmann
- Donna Flavia in Die Jeaersucht auf Probe, Oper von Eschenburg - Anfossi
- Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, opera by Georg Anton Benda, libretto by Gotter based on Shakespeare
- Princess Eboli in Don Carlos von Schiller
- Marianne in Das Bürgerglück, a comedy by Babo
- Friederike in Fraud by Superstition Opera by Ebert / Dittersdorf
literature
- Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians (Volume 1: Franz Benda ), 1967, de Gruyter Berlin.
- Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians (Volume 2: Georg Anton Benda ), 1971, de Gruyter Berlin, ISBN 3-11-003568-5 , pages 131-138.
- Ludwig Eisenberg: Scholz, Maximilian in: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, OCLC 5304638 , p. 909. also online .
Remarks
- ↑ in several sources Auguste Benda , probably based on the baptismal name Justina registered in the Gotha Castle Church (Franz Lorenz page 131)
- ↑ Some sources name the actor Maximilian Scholz as the alleged third husband, but from 1800 he is the husband of their daughter Caroline Zimdar , see Caroline Scholz - Biographical Information from the WeGA
- ↑ Rudolf Schlösser : Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter: his life and his works , Volume 10 of research on the history of theater , Verlag Kraus Reprint, 1894, page 96 online
- ↑ see Wikisource BLKÖ: Scholz, Maximilian , [1]
- ↑ New Nekrolog der Deutschen Volume 10, Verlag BF Voigt, 1834, pages 808–809, * 357, obituary Blanchard
- ↑ most recently in Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung (from volume 17 many selection pages online, but not the relevant page 30)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benda, Justina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Benda, Catharina Justina (full name); Benda, Auguste; Benda, Justel; Zimdar, Auguste; Zimdar; Blanchard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized June 2, 1757 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gotha |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1815 |