Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld

Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld (born September 30, 1745 in Vienna ; died April 15, 1815 in Weimar ) was a German theater actress .

Life

Karoline Schulze was the daughter of Christian Schulze (November 8, 1693 in Frankfurt (Oder) - 1757 in Freiberg ) and his second wife, whom he married on December 7, 1741. Both parents were actors and Caroline appeared in a toddler role at the age of three. After losing his permanent position in Vienna, his father moved via Munich , Erlangen and Fürth , founded his own acting troupe and toured with them through Erlangen and Ingolstadt . Due to the lack of success, the parents also took on sideline jobs as artists, acting teachers and manual workers. After losing their own troupe, the parents again took on engagements with others: under Johann Schulz they played in Passau , Regensburg and Nuremberg , under Mayer in Luxembourg , under Brunian in Würzburg , Eichstätt and Rothenburg , under Joseph Felix von Kurz from 1754 in Kolin and Regensburg, under Locatelli in Prague , under Filippo Nicolini in Braunschweig . Employed by Franz Schuch in 1756 , Karoline took on her first major roles as a young lover in Magdeburg , Potsdam , Stettin and Frankfurt / Oder. She expanded her repertoire under Kirsch's stage management, and the family then moved to Freiberg, where Christian Schulze died. Karoline and her mother recruited Döbbelin , with whom they performed in Erfurt , Mainz , Cologne and Düsseldorf .

In 1758 the women hired Konrad Ernst Ackermann , in whose theater company they appeared in Bern , Lucerne , Strasbourg , Colmar , Freiburg , Karlsruhe , Mainz, Kassel , Braunschweig, Hanover , Göttingen and finally Hamburg . There her mother died; At this point in time, Karoline Schulze had changed her place of residence over fifty times.

In Hamburg, Schulze achieved lasting stage fame for the first time through her tragic roles. The famous actress Hensel feared the newcomer she did not know and with the establishment of the Hamburg National Theater began an intrigue in the history of theater that led to the split in the Ackermann Society, with which Schulze lost her job.

In 1767 Schulze therefore switched to the von Koch theater group in Leipzig . She was also noticed by the young Goethe , who remembered Demoiselle Schulze particularly vividly in his description of the Leipzig theater in his last years :

"She was not tall, but nice, beautiful black eyes and hair, her movements and recitations perhaps too sharp, but softened by the grace of youth."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In Leipzig, however, Karoline Schulze stepped down from the stage and married Kummerfeld, a bank employee from Hamburg, on February 24, 1768.

After the death of her husband, Schulze appeared again from July 1777, first in Hamburg, then Gotha , Mannheim , Innsbruck and Linz . In 1784 Schulze-Kummerfeld was part of Joseph Bellomo's group of actors in Weimar . In the following year she finally ended her theater career and founded a sewing school in Weimar. She wrote her memoirs between 1792 and 1795. Before her death in 1815, she gave the Weimar pharmacy the recipe for her beauty home remedy, the Kummerfeld wash water .

research

At the gender research division of the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin, historian Claudia Ulbrich is working on a complete edition of Karoline Kummerfeld's writings. The project was funded by the German Research Foundation.

literature

Joseph Kürschner: Kummerfeld, Karoline . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 372-374.

Individual evidence

^ Joseph Kürschner : Kummerfeld, Karoline . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 372-374.
^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 425
^ Research, Claudia Ulbrich, URL: The self-testimonies of the actress Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld (1745–1815); Critical edition of the complete works - DFG 2011–2014, accessed December 10, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Schulze-Kummerfeld, Karoline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schulze, Caroline (maiden name); Kummerfeld, Karoline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH	September 30, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	April 15, 1815
Place of death	Weimar

[1] Joseph Kürschner : Kummerfeld, Karoline . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 372-374.

[Lux-2] Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 425

[3] Research, Claudia Ulbrich, URL: The self-testimonies of the actress Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld (1745–1815); Critical edition of the complete works - DFG 2011–2014, accessed December 10, 2015.