Karl Friedrich Zimdar
Karl Friedrich Zimdar (* 1753 in Berlin ; † November 1792 in Schleswig ) was a German actor, singer and dramaturge.
Life
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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)
- Belmont in Julie and Belmont by fall
- Dornal in Der Kaufmann von Smyrna, operetta by Schwan (text) / Stegemann (music)
- Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare
- Romeo in Romeo and Julie by White
- Julius in Julius von Tarent von Leisewitz
- Hamlet in Hamlet by Shakespeare
- Count in Emilia Galotti von Lessing
- Fool in King Lear by Shakespeare
- Romeo in Romeo and Julie, opera by Georg Anton Benda , libretto by Gotter after Shakespeare
- Waller in Marianne von Gotter
- Bridegroom in Das Mädchen im Eichthal, Singspiel by (Johann Christian) Bock- Lampe
- Graf Hochberg in Die neue Emma by Johann Christoph Unzer in General German Biography
- Seywards son in Macbeth by Shakespeare
- Don Antonio in The Friends or the Bet on Malta by Ziegler
- Lindor in Bretzner's deceased wife
- Ensign in Angel's Noble Boy
- Son of the Master of Ceremonies in The Public Secret of Gozzi - Gods
- St. Albin in Der Hausvater after Diderot von Lessing
- Karl in Sprickmann's jewelry
- Fähndrich Saalstein in Juliane von Lindorak von Schröder and Gotter after Doride von Gozzi
- Abraham in Abraham on Moria, Oratorio von Rolle
- Carl in The School for Scandal by Sheridan - Johann Daniel Siegfried Leonhard
- Westindier and Belcour in Der Westindier nach Cumberland by Bode
- young count in luck amends folly after Lee von Schröder
- the young Lernach in The Beggar by (Johann Christian) Bock after Goldoni
- Licentiate Frank in The Suspicious Husband after Benjamin Hoadly by Goldini
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
- ↑ see * 1755 Berlín, Německo - † 1792 Schleswig, Německo Encyklopedie Brno
- ↑ see Lorenz biography, page 137
- ↑ New Nekrolog der Deutschen Volume 10, Verlag BF Voigt, 1834, pages 808–809, * 357, obituary Blanchard
- ↑ see Wikisource BLKÖ: Scholz, Maximilian , [1]
- ↑ Their mutual Scholz sons can be proven at least as young actors
- ↑ see Lorenz biography, page 137
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Zimdar, Karl Friedrich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zimdar, Carl Friedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, singer and dramaturge |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1753 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | November 1792 |
Place of death | Schleswig |