Karl Friedrich Zimdar

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Karl Friedrich Zimdar (* 1753 in Berlin ; † November 1792 in Schleswig ) was a German actor, singer and dramaturge.

Life

Reduta , Theater in Brno, 1827, painting by (F. Richter)
Estates Theater Prague, built in 1781, opened in 1783

Zimdar made his debut in an " operating company " in Amberg in 1775, and in 1777 in Hamburg with Friedrich Ludwig Schröder , who supported him on friendly terms. In spring 1778, Georg Anton Benda and daughter Justina Benda , with whom Zimdar married in 1779, performed at the Hamburg Theater . After Schröder resigned from the theater management, the couple went to the Hoftheater Schwedt in 1780 , where their three-year-old daughter Caroline Zimdar also appeared. Brno followed in 1782 (Directorate Romanus Waitzhofer ), 1783 Mainz and Göttingen (Grossmann Society), 1784 the new Estates Theater Prague (Second Bondin Society ), 1786 Dresden (First Bonin Society), 1787/88 Breslau ( Wäsersche Society ), 1789 Court Theater Schleswig ( Director Abel Seyler ), where Zimdar passed away in 1792.

In 1794, his widow and daughter returned to the Wäserschen Gesellschaft in Breslau, where they both married: Justina Zimdar in 1797 the actor Adolph Noel Blanchard (1765–1832), Caroline Zimdar in 1800 the widowed actor, director and dramaturge Maximilian Scholz (1744–1834).

Works

Comedies
  • The bride
  • Jack of Pique
  • The decision
  • What teases each other loves each other
  • The happy beggars or those who cannot swim go under (according to Gozzi )
  • There are more examples
Tragedies
  • The mother
  • Friendship, love and jealousy according to Sigbert and Elwine (drama of a mysterious "young genius")
Opera libretto
  • The Land Plagues (after Gozzi)
"Funny" Singspiel
  • The visible lunar eclipse , music by Christian Gottfried Weber

Stage roles (selection)

literature

  • Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians (Volume 2: Georg Anton Benda ), 1971, de Gruyter Berlin, ISBN 3-11-003568-5 , pages 131-138.
  • Christian Friedrich Raßmann : literary concise dictionary of the deceased German poets: and the writer eight periods of time belonging to beautiful literature, from 1137 to 1824 (library of German literature) , Verlag Wilhelm Lauffer, 1836, page 361, also online [2]
  • Karl Friedrich Zimdar, Christian Gottfried Weber: The total moon eclipse: a comical Singspiel in 2 acts , Verlag Andrea, 1785, also online [3]
  • Carl-Friedrich Zimdar: friendship, love and jealousy. Tragedy in 5 record. Brno 1783 , Verlag Joseph Franz Neumann, 1783, also online [4]

References and comments

  1. see * 1755 Berlín, Německo - † 1792 Schleswig, Německo Encyklopedie Brno
  2. see Lorenz biography, page 137
  3. New Nekrolog der Deutschen Volume 10, Verlag BF Voigt, 1834, pages 808–809, * 357, obituary Blanchard
  4. see Wikisource BLKÖ: Scholz, Maximilian , [1]
  5. Their mutual Scholz sons can be proven at least as young actors
  6. see Lorenz biography, page 137