Sophie Schröder
Antoinette Sophie Luise Schröder (born February 28 or March 1, 1781 in Paderborn ; † February 25, 1868 in Munich ; born Sophie Antonie Bürger ) was a German singer and actress .
Life
Sophie Schröder was born as the daughter of the actor Gottfried Bürger in the Paderborn inn "Zum Bremer Schlüssel". Already in 1793 she appeared with the Tyllische Gesellschaft in Saint Petersburg as Lina in the opera Das Rote Käppchen and married the actor Stollmers (actually Johann Nikolaus Smets von Ehrenstein) in Reval in 1795. With him she had a son, who later became journalist Wilhelm Smets .
On August von Kotzebue's recommendation, she got a job at the Vienna Court Theater in 1798 , but soon went to Breslau, where she was engaged for the opera. Divorced from Stollmers, she was called to Hamburg in 1801 and exchanged the naive role for the tragic one, in which she soon shone as a star of the first order. In 1804 she married the singer ( tenor ) and actor Friedrich Schröder and lived in Hamburg until 1813, from where she fled because Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout wanted to bring her to the interior of France because of her patriotic sentiments.
After a brilliant tour of art, she played in Prague for a year and a half and was engaged at the Vienna Court Theater in 1815. In Vienna she was in a relationship with the painter Moritz Daffinger , with whom she had two sons. After her second husband's death in 1818, she married the actor Wilhelm Kunst again in 1825 , but soon separated from him, made important art trips, was engaged at the Munich Court Theater in 1831 , but returned to the Vienna Court Theater in the spring of 1836 .
Retired in 1840, she lived for a long time in Augsburg, later in Munich, and died there on February 25, 1868. Schröder was one of the first in German art who, in contrast to the realism of the Iffland school, helped a more idealistic style of play to victory; instead of too strict naturalness, one found in her a great conception and representation of enormous passions.
Schröder is considered to be the most important protagonist of the idealistic German style of representation in the first half of the 19th century. She was the mother of Wilhelm Smets and the opera singer Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient , and through her further daughter, the soprano Johanne Friederike Elisabeth (Betty) Schmidt (1806–1887), the grandmother of the singer and actor Friedrich Ludwig Schmidt (1833–1890).
The tomb of Sophie Schroeder is located in the Old South Cemetery in Munich (burial ground 39 - number 13 - number 21) location .
In 1930 the Schroederweg in Vienna - Meidling (12th district) was named after her. The Deutsche Bundespost dedicated a stamp to her in 1976 .
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- Lina - The Red Cap ( Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf )
- Phaedra - Phèdre ( Jean Racine )
- Medea - Medea ( Franz Grillparzer )
- Lady Macbeth - Macbeth ( William Shakespeare )
- Merope - Merope ( Francesco Scipione Maffei )
- Sappho - Sappho (Franz Grillparzer)
- Johanna - Johanna von Montfaucon ( August von Kotzebue )
- Isabella - The Bride of Messina ( Friedrich Schiller )
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Remarks
- ↑ For more of Sophie Schröder's children, see also her letter to Betty Schröder of September 4, 1820 (p. 249) Register of persons (p. 534 with right column).
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Sophie Schröder . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 922–924 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
- Ingeborg-Ursula Keller: Sophie Schröder, representative of the Hamburg-Weimar style in German acting . University, Berlin 1961 (dissertation).
- Ulrike Krone-Balcke: Schröder, Antoinette Sophie, born Bürger. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 557 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Eberhard Quadflieg: Sophie Schröder and Goethe. With an ancestral list of the poet-canon Wilhelm Smets . Self-published, Aachen 1954.
- Paul Schlenther : Schröder, Sophie . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 525-530.
- Philipp Schmidt: Sophie Schröder, how she lives in the memories of her contemporaries and children . Wallishauser, Vienna 1870.
- Constant von Wurzbach : Schröder, Sophie . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich , 31st volume. Vienna 1876, pp. 321–334
- A couple of hours with Sophie Schröder . In: The Gazebo . Issue 13, 1868, pp. 207 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Literature by and about Sophie Schröder in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sophie Antonie Luise Schröder in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
Individual evidence
- ^ Christa Stöcker: Correspondence 1815-1856 Heinrich Heine . Register of persons p. 146 at Google Books
- ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Schmidt, Friedrich Ludwig . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 894 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schröder, Sophie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schröder, Sophie Antonie Luise (full name); Bürger, Sophie Antonie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1781 or March 1, 1781 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paderborn |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1868 |
| Place of death | Munich |