Sophia Carolina Benda

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Sophia Carolina Benda (baptized March 27, 1787 in Berlin ; † May 8, 1844 in Karlsruhe ) was a German actress and singer . She was the oldest child of the Berlin court actor and singer Carl Ernst Eberhard Benda and a granddaughter of the composer Georg Anton Benda .

Life

Grand Ducal Court Theater Karlsruhe by Friedrich Weinbrenner , opened in 1808

Seven of her father's theater colleagues were her godparents, so it is not surprising that (Sophia) Carolina Benda was seen on stage from the age of three, as were her siblings later. She and one of her sisters were trained by August Wilhelm Iffland and appeared in plays and music in Breslau between around 1803 and 1811. On Iffland's recommendation, they had made a guest appearance in Karlsruhe, and Carolina Benda was accepted there. As a valued actress, she appeared with well-known artists of her time, mostly in lover roles or as a heroine. In addition, she repeatedly had foreign engagements such as B. in Breslau, Munich, Mannheim, Vienna, last there at the Leopoldstädter Theater in April 1821. 1832–1833 she was a guest actress at the Hoftheater Karlsruhe, because of increasing visual impairment she finally gave up her stage career and, supported by her friends, she spent the following years entirely in Karlsruhe, where she campaigned for thorough music and language education for the next generation.

The actress and author Karoline Bauer partly used Carolina Benda's biography in her memoir "Verschollene Herzensgeschichten - Stella": however, she was called "Amalie Benda" in them, not to be confused with Carolina Benda's cousin, the actress Amalia Carolina Louisa Benda , daughter of Hermann Christian Benda , court actor a. -singer in Weimar under Goethe.

See also

Stage roles (selection)

literature

  • Friedrich August Schmidt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , published by Bernhard F. Voig (h) t, 1846
  • Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians (Volume 2: Georg Anton Benda ), 1971, de Gruyter Berlin, ISBN 3-11-003568-5
  • AE Brachvogel: History of the Royal Theater in Berlin , 1878
  • Wenzel Müller and his Leopoldstädter Theater 1781–1830 (based on his handwritten notes) , annotated and published in 2009 by Angermüller, full text on Google Books
  • Karoline Bauer: From my stage life: Memories , published in 1871 by Arnold Wellmer, publishing house of the Royal Secret Upper Hofbuchdruckerei (R. v. Decker)
  • Karoline Bauer: Lost Heart Stories / Leftover Memoirs , here: Stella , edited by Arnold Wellmer, 1878/80, Louis Gerschel Verlagsbuchhandlung Berlin
  • Franz Lorenz: The Benda family of musicians (Volume 1: Franz Benda ), 1967, de Gruyter Berlin
  • Joseph von Eichendorff (Baron von) , Ursula Regner: Complete Works of Baron Joseph von Eichendorff: Historical-Critical Edition, Volume 1; Volume 11 , editors: Wilhelm Kosch , August Sauer , Philipp August Becker , Verlag J. Habbel, 2006, pp. 255f.

Explanations

  1. ↑ in the Trinity Church
  2. ↑ Joseph von Eichendorff's diary entry from October 1809: "The older Mlle: Benda with the beautiful, whale (d) animal eyes, the Eboli, especially the scene with Carlos, excellent."
  3. ↑ Reminder sheets from the life and artist work of Ms. Amalie Haizinger geb. Morstadt , Verlag der DR Marr'schen Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Carlsruhe and Baden, 1836, pp. 7, 13, 14, 24 full text on Google Books
  4. ↑ Royal Court and National Theater: 1812 , Verlag Wolf at Google Books
  5. ↑ Oscar Fambach: The Repertory of the Court and National Theater in Mannheim: 1804 - 1832 , Volume 1, series of publications on the history of theater in the Goethe era, Volume 1, Bouvier Bonn, 1980 in university libraries, not digitized
  6. ^ For Vienna there is a risk of confusion with Sophia Carolina's youngest sister Louisa Wilhelmina Justina Benda (from 1823 Louise Haas ), b. February 11, 1798 in Berlin, Iffland's godchild - see Franz Lorenz p. 150 and z. B. biografiA: Lexicon of Austrian Women , p. 251: Louise Benda , as the first name was often left out in literature and the press.
  7. ↑ Caroline Benda at the Leopoldstädter Theater under Wenzel Müller full text on Google Books
  8. ^ Guest performances at the Hoftheater Karlsruhe 1832-1833 at the German Digital Library
  9. ↑ possibly due to her Amalia role in the Karlsruhe performance of Die Räuber
personal data
SURNAME Benda, Sophia Carolina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH baptized March 27, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1844
Place of death Karlsruhe