Marianne Pirker

Marianne Pirker (born January 27, 1717 , † November 10, 1782 in Eschenau ; also Marianne Pyrker or Anna Maria Pyrker ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Marianne Pirker was a native of Geyereck and Geiereck. In 1735 she married the Austrian violinist Joseph Franz Pirker. From 1744 to 1747 she sang in Italy. In 1747 she was appointed to the London court , together with her husband, as first violinist and conductor . Christoph Willibald Gluck brought the couple to the royal court in Copenhagen in 1748 as part of the Mingotti troupe . There Pirker met the Württemberg Duke Carl Eugen , who invited her to an audition at the Württemberg court. In 1750 she received a permanent engagement at Carl Eugen's court as the first soloist in the newly established opera in the New Lusthaus in Stuttgart . Joseph Franz Pirker was hired as Kapellmeister two years later. The couple lived there with their three daughters. During this time, Marianne Pirker became a close confidante of Carl Eugen's wife, Duchess Friederike .

When there was a crisis in the ducal marriage in 1756, Marianne Pirker was accused of telling the duchess about her husband's extramarital escapades. Carl Eugen then had the Pirkers arrested without further interrogation or trial and brought to Hohenasperg Fortress , where they were held in solitary cells for eight years. When the couple was released from custody by Maria Theresa from Austria in 1764 on a pardon , Marianne Pirker suffered severe damage to body and mind and lost her voice.

The couple had to leave Württemberg within 24 hours of being released. In Eschenau they were initially accepted into the Eschenau Castle by the local authorities, the von Killinger family . After the death of the lord of the castle Georg Friedrich von Killinger on June 3, 1766, they moved with his widow Sophia to Heilbronn in a house belonging to the von Killinger family. They made their living by taking music lessons. Marianne Pirker died on November 10, 1782 in Eschenau and was buried in the local cemetery.

reception

The writer Karl Müller published a historical novel under the pseudonym Otfrid Mylius in 1869 called Die Irre von Eschenau , which is based on Marianne Pirker's fate.

literature

• Rudolf Krauss : Marianne Pirker. A German artist's life from the age of Duke Charles . In: Württemberg quarterly for regional history . NF 12. Württemberg Commission for State History , Stuttgart 1903, p. 257-283 ( archive.org ).
• Monika Bergan: Portraits of women from Ludwigsburg . Hackenberg, Ludwigsburg 2006, ISBN 3-937280-12-X , Marianne Pirker, p. 18 .
• Anna Blos : Women in Swabia. Fifteen pictures of life . Silberburg, Stuttgart 1929, p. 54-69 ( wlb-stuttgart.de ).
• Richard Haidlen: Marianne Pirker. Singer, prisoner of Duke Carl Eugen . In: Max Miller, Robert Uhland on behalf of the Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Life pictures from Swabia and Franconia . tape 10 , 1966, pp. 78-100 .
• Gernot Weber: The 18th Century - Eschenau in the Age of Absolutism . In: Obersulm. Six villages - one municipality . Obersulm municipality, Obersulm 1997, p. 198-223 .
• Karl Damian Achaz von Knoblauch zu Hatzbach:  Pyrker, Anna Maria . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 787-790.

broadcast

• radioZeitreisen auf Bayern 2 by Dorothea Keuler: A singer is silenced. The prima donna Marianne Pirker “disappears” on the Hohenasperg , broadcast on October 4th, 2009

Web links

• People on the stage - Marianne Pirker (1717–1782). In: Ludwigsburg Palace. Schlösser Magazin, accessed December 31, 2009 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eleonora Kohler-Gehrig: The history of women in law. (PDF; 235 kB) Ludwigsburg University of Applied Sciences, p. 5 , accessed on February 14, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Otfrid Mylius: The lunatic from Eschenau. Eighteenth-century historical novel in two volumes . Vogler & Beinhauer, 1869 ( first volume in the Google book search).