Sophie King

Sophie König (by Ignaz Eigner , 1891)

Sophie König , also Sofie König , (born November 4, 1854 in Pest , † August 19, 1943 in Frankfurt am Main ) was an opera singer (soprano) and stage actress .

Life

Sophie König came from a Jewish family, her parents were Moriz König from Pressburg and his wife Funny Seligmann. Her brother was the singer Sigmund König (1846–1881). Her cousin Gustav Karpeles gave her spiritual stimuli in many areas at an early age. In Vienna she was finally trained as a singer at the opera school. Her singing and acting skills were also noticed and appreciated by Johann Strauss . He then also studied Rosalinde from the operetta Die Fledermaus with her .

Act

At the age of 16, König made his debut in Baden as Boulotte in Bluebeard . From 1875 to 1876 she was in Breslau , in 1876 at the Theater an der Wien, from 1876 to 1878 she was at the municipal Friedrich Wilhelm Theater in Berlin, and from 1877 to 1881 she made guest tours through Germany. Through the publisher of the Frankfurter Zeitung , Leopold Sonnemann , the director of the United City Theater , Emil Claar , became aware of them. When she had a guest performance in Leipzig in 1881 , Claar brought her to Frankfurt as a singer and actress. The bosom writer Eduard Jacobson also wrote her pieces on the body. König had an extensive voice and sang Adele, Rosalinde and Orlofsky in Der Fledermaus , among others . At first she sang mainly soubrette roles , but then switched to acting in 1903. She played Euridice in Orpheus in the Underworld , Papagena in the Magic Flute and Nanderl in Alexander Baumann's Promise behind the stove . She stayed in Frankfurt until her retirement in 1925. Even after her retirement she played occasional maternal roles and supporting roles until 1931. Until 1936 she was an honorary member of the Frankfurter Bühnen.

Sophie König died of very old age under similar conditions in Frankfurt.

Publications

1922: The novel of a soubrette (stage play, performed several times)

Honors

1925: Honorary membership of the Frankfurt Municipal Theaters

literature

Elazar Benyoetz: Jacobson, Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 247 f. ( Digitized version ).
Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 527, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Büthe: King Sophie. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 38.
Franz Mailer (Ed.): Johann Strauss (Son) - Life and Work in Letters and Documents , Volume II, Schneider Tutzing, 1986 ISBN 978-3-7952-0477-8 .
Frithjof Trapp: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933-1945 , KG Saur, Munich, 1999, Vol. 2, p. 516, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 .
Ernst Wilhelm Fritsch: Musikalisches Wochenblatt , 1870 vol. 1, p. 639.
Hans Morgenstern: Jewish biographical lexicon. A collection of important personalities of Jewish origin from 1800 , LIT Verlag Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-0509-8 .
Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large Singer Lexicon , 7 volumes. 4th expanded and updated edition, KG Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 .
Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 .
Hannes Heer ; Sven Fritz; Heike Brummer; Jutta Zwilling: Silent voices: the expulsion of the "Jews" and "politically intolerable" from the Hessian theaters 1933 to 1945 . Berlin: Metropol, 2011 ISBN 978-3-86331-013-4 , pp. 376f.

Web links

Sophie König at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

Individual evidence

^ Morgenstern: Jüdisches biographisches Lexikon . Lemma Siegmund Koenig , in: Kutsch-Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon
^ Trapp: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1944
^ Mailer: Strauss, life and work in letters and documents
↑ Kutsch-Riemens: Large song dictionary
↑ Elazar Benyoetz: Jacobson, Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 247 f. ( Digitized version ).
↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 .

personal data
SURNAME	King, Sophie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	King, Sofie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Opera singer (soprano) and stage actress
DATE OF BIRTH	November 4, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	pest
DATE OF DEATH	August 19, 1943
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Morgenstern: Jüdisches biographisches Lexikon . Lemma Siegmund Koenig , in: Kutsch-Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon

[2] Trapp: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1944

[3] Mailer: Strauss, life and work in letters and documents

[4] Kutsch-Riemens: Large song dictionary

[5] Elazar Benyoetz: Jacobson, Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 247 f. ( Digitized version ).

[6] Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 .