Eleonore Schikaneder
Ele (o) nore Schi (c) kaneder , also Maria Magdalena Schi (c) kaneder or Schickeneder and Eleonore Art (in) , (born as Maria Magdalena Art (h) ; * February 17, 1751 or 1752 in Sibiu ; † June 22, 1821 in Vienna ) was an actress , singer and theater director.
Life
Maria Magdalena Art was the foster daughter of the theater director Franz Josef Moser (1717–1792) and made her debut as an actress around 1770 in Innsbruck . From 1776 she was a member of the theater company of Andreas Joseph Schopf in Augsburg , where she married Emanuel Schikaneder in 1777 . In that year Emanuel and Eleonore joined the theater company of Franz Josef Moser, which Emanuel Schikaneder led as director from 1778. With the theater company they traveled to Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Laibach (1780), Klagenfurt, Linz, Salzburg (1781), Graz (summer 1781 and 1782) and Pressburg, among others. During this time, Eleonore Schikaneder played the title role in Agnes Bernauerin by Joseph August von Toerring , Rosina in Die Lyranten by Emanuel Schikaneder and the Röschen in Die Jagd by Christian Felix Weisse . In Salzburg I made contact with the Mozart family.
After separating from her husband, she founded her own acting troupe in 1785 with Johann Friedel and her brother-in-law Urban Schikaneder (1746-1818), which were directed by Johann in Wiener Neustadt, Klagenfurt, Trieste and Laibach and from November 1788 permanently in the Wiener Freihausheater Friedel with the support of Eleonore Schikaneder, appeared. After the death of Johann Friedel in March 1789, whose universal heir was Eleonore Schikaneder, she reconciled with Emanuel and brought him to Vienna to run the theater with him. Subsequently, she also appeared at the Theater an der Wien , in which she died in 1821.
She was played by Lisa Maria Potthoff in the 2011 film Summer of the Jugglers , and Milica Jovanović played her in the premiere of the musical Schikaneder in September 2016 at the Raimund Theater in Vienna .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Schikaneder, Eleonore . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 29th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1875, p. 311 ( digital copy ).
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, pp. 882 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- H. Reitterer: Schikaneder, Eleonore (actually Maria Magdalena); born Type (h). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 129.
- Christian Fastl: Schikaneder (own Schickeneder), family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
Web links
- Eleonore Schikaneder in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Eleonore Schikaneder in the German biography
Individual evidence
- ^ Otto G. Schindler: Moser, Franz Josef. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schikaneder, Eleanor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Art, Maria Magdalena (possible maiden name); Arth, Maria Magdalena (possible maiden name); Schickaneder, Maria Magdalena; Schikaneder, Maria Magdalena; Schikeneder, Maria Magdalena; Art, Eleonore; Artin, Eleanor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Actress, singer and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1751 or 1752 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sibiu |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1821 |
| Place of death | Vienna |