Luise Limbach

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Luise Limbach, portrait by Conrad Freyberg 1868

Luise Mathilde Limbach (born October 8, 1834 in Düsseldorf , † October 10, 1909 in Berlin ) was a German opera and operetta singer ( soprano ).

Life

Darmstadt Court Theater, 1819 (built by Georg Moller )
Luise Limbach with her husband 1877

Luise Limbach was the second eldest daughter of the actor and director Friedrich Heinrich Limbach (1801-1887) and his wife, the actress and singer Mathilde Auguste Hildebrandt (1801-1885). Accompanied by her parents and siblings ( Susanna , Marie and Anton), Luise appeared in various cities with her siblings in children's roles. Immediately after school she received singing lessons in Braunschweig from the song composer and court conductor Franz Abt at the expense of the artistic director of the court theater , where she worked for several years. During this time she went on guest tours, for example in 1855 so-called model performances at the Hamburg City Theater and in 1857 performances in Magdeburg with brother-in-law Friedrich Gottlieb Adolph Benda .

In 1858 she had her first foreign engagement in Breslau . From 1859 to 1862 she was a member of the ensemble at the Hoftheater Darmstadt , from where she went on guest tours, for example to the Friedrich Wilhelmstädtische Theater and the Kroll Opera in Berlin. In 1862 she moved to the Quai Theater in Vienna . From 1863 to 1865 she had an engagement at the Friedrich Wilhelmstädtischer Theater in Berlin. Then Luise Limbach temporarily withdrew from the stage. In 1874 she celebrated her return to work in Mainz and Darmstadt with great success .

In 1876 she finally said goodbye to theater life and married in the summer of 1877 in London in the German Lutheran Church St. George's in the Whitechapel district. Heinrich Wilhelm Viktor Gustav von Carnap, Royal Prussian police chief, temporarily mayor of Rixdorf and member of the district assembly, lived in Berlin at Manteuffelstrasse 106 until his retirement in 1907. The Carnap couple had no children together, but they took on a number of sponsorships. Luise was always very concerned about the well-being of her widely dispersed relatives, whom she also supported financially for many years. She donated her 1868 portrait of the painter Conrad Freyberg to the newly founded Fatherland Museum, now the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum .

Stage roles

Through her natural freshness and her petite figure, Luise Limbach always exuded youthful charm until the end of her career. Her pure, pleasant soprano voice had received a solid education, and her acting performance was also convincing thanks to hard-working preparation. She was versatile, a popular member of the ensemble, who celebrated triumphs especially in Berlin, and her subdued interpretation of both Eurydice and the female lead in Die Schöne Helena is said to have contributed to Offenbach's operettas on the rather strict German stages Received and accepted.

Luise Limbach's repertoire comprised well over 100 roles, including:

literature

  • New Berlin music newspaper. Ninth year: No. 22, May 30, 1855, Hamburg and No. 26, June 27, 1855, Braunschweig.
  • Ludwig Eisenberg: Limbach, Louise. in: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, OCLC 5304638 , pp. 607f. ( archive.org )
  • Limbach, Luise. In: Karl J. Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . 3. Edition. Verlag KG Saur, Munich 1997, Vol. 3, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , p. 2074.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spelling without "o" according to the birth certificate at the NW Rhineland civil status archive
  2. ↑ Year of birth according to birth certificate "one thousand eight hundred four and thirty", also at familysearch.org - (and not : 1837, 1840 or 1842 as in some media)
  3. ↑ exact date of death with registry office references at ancestry.de
  4. ↑ She is not to be confused with the following singers "M. Limbach" or "L. Limbach":
    • Mathilde Auguste Limbach (1801–1885), née Hildebrand, divorced Hartmann, the mother of Luise Mathilde Limbach.
    • Madelaine / Magdalena Limbach (* 1810) and Luise Eva (* 1824), daughters of Jean / Johann Limbach, surgeon / barber in Mainz.
    • Margaretha Limbach (* 1817), daughter of Sebastian Limbach, wig maker in Mainz; married to the actor Freymüller
  5. ^ Daughter of the "prop orderer" at the Dresden "Churfürstl. Theater "(court theater) Franz Matthias Anton Hildebrandt (according to birth entry 1801 and death certificate 1885 at ancestry.de )
  6. ^ Mathilde Limbach (1801-1887) in the catalog of the German National Library
  7. ^ A b Luise Limbach at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
  8. ^ Neue Berliner Musikzeitung , June 27, 1855, p. 205, left column (Braunschweig) at Google Books
  9. ↑ German Lutheran Church St. George’s in the English language Wikipedia
  10. ↑ July 27, 1877, Whitechapel Marriage, ancestry.de
  11. ↑ Original letters and Carnap, Hrch. Wilh. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1907, Part I, p. 315.
  12. ↑ Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum: Text on the tour (Angela Klein) on March 3, 2013 as part of the special exhibition “A sentimental journey” with a portrait of Conrad Freyberg, January 1, 1970 (No. 6) ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at 3landesmuseen.de, accessed on February 7, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.3landesmuseen.de
  13. ^ Eisenberg: Limbach, Louise , pp. 607f. ( archive.org )
personal data
SURNAME Limbach, Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Limbach, Luise Mathilde (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and operetta singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1909
Place of death Berlin