Karoline Jagemann

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Karoline Jagemann as Ion. Painting around 1803 by Jakob Wilhelm Christian Roux .
Karoline Jagemann, painting by Joseph Karl Stieler .
Memorial plaque on the house at Herderplatz 16 in Weimar
Karoline Jagemann's grave in the Trinitatisfriedhof

Henriette Karoline Friedericke Jagemann von Heygendorff , also Caroline Jagemann (born January 25, 1777 in Weimar , † July 10, 1848 in Dresden ) was one of the most outstanding tragic actresses and singers of her time and a theater director .

Life

She was the daughter of the scholar and librarian Christian Joseph Jagemann (1735-1804) and sister of the painter Ferdinand Jagemann (1780-1820).

She received acting and singing lessons in Mannheim under August Iffland and Heinrich Beck in 1790 , made her debut in the title role of Paul Wranitzky's Singspiel Oberon at the National Theater there and on February 18, 1797 in the same role at the Weimar Court Theater , where she was engaged as a court singer that same year had been.

Jagemann belonged to the “ Weimar Quartet ” together with the soprano Henriette Eberwein , the tenor Karl Melchior Jakob Moltke and the bassist Karl Stromeier . In 1798 she made guest appearances in Berlin , in 1800 in Vienna , and later in Stuttgart , Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig .

She met Duke Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach in the house of Christiane Friederike von Löwenstern (1761–1847). Christiane Friederike von Gersdorff had been the wife of the ducal Saxon-Weimar council and Livonian court judge Paul von Löwenstern (1752–1842) since 1781 and, after Carl von Stein auf Kochberg (1765–1837), made the parties fines for the duke in his absence Spends a lot in the evenings, for which Dlle. Jagemann arrives. According to Carl von Stein, the Jagemann at the Löwenstern had a strong role for itself .

In 1801 she became the lover of the Duke, who appointed her "Baroness von Heygendorff" in 1809 and left the Heygendorf manor to her . Their son Karl , fathered by the Grand Duke , was officially awarded the title of Heygendorff on May 16, 1809, and he and his children were accepted into the Grand Ducal Saxon nobility.

The pessimistic philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer fell in love unhappily in 1809 as a young man with the actress, eleven years his senior, and wrote his only surviving love poem for her.

In the same year Karoline Jagemann von Heygendorff was appointed opera director and, after intriguing against Goethe and causing him to withdraw from the theater business in 1817, took over the sole management of the court theater, since 1824 as chief director.

After the death of Duke Karl August (1828), Karoline von Heygendorff retired from the stage and spent the last few years living with her son in Dresden . In Weimar, after the Duke's death, she had no support from higher society. The intrigue once directed against Goethe now became a burden to her. She died in Dresden and was buried in the Heygendorff family grave in the Trinity cemetery.

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Her big roles included "Elisabeth" in " Maria Stuart " (1800) and "Beatrice" in " Bride of Messina " (1803).

Actually, the role of the " Maid of Orléans " also fell into her field. Duke Karl August, however, did not want to see his mistress on stage as a maiden in armor and made sure that Schiller's drama was only performed with another, less well-known heroine after a certain delay.

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Web links

Commons : Karoline Jagemann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He was the eldest son of the well-known Charlotte von Stein and from 1786–1796 a Mecklenburg-Schwerin chamberlain, later chamberlain
  2. ↑ Self-portrayals in classical Weimar: Caroline Jagemann, autobiography, reviews , Göttingen 2004, p. 311 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Self-productions in classical Weimar: Caroline Jagemann (2004), p. 39
  4. ↑ Time drawing. WDR , July 10, 2018, accessed on July 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ The reason for the end of Goethe's theater management was the appearance of a trained poodle on the stage of the court theater. Jagemann pushed through the performance of the successful play The Dog of Aubry , a melodrama by René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt translated into German, by the Grand Duke, contrary to Goethe's theater principles and against his objection to Carl August. He threatened to resign in writing from Jena. The poodle Dragon performed on April 12, 1817 and the day after, Goethe was dismissed.
personal data
SURNAME Jagemann, Karoline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jagemann von Heygendorff, Karoline; Jagemann von Heygendorff, Henriette Karoline Friedericke (full name); Jagemann, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1848
Place of death Dresden