Thekla Kneisel

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Thekla Kneisel , née Thekla Demmer (* 1802 in Frankfurt am Main ; † 23 August 1832 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actress and opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ) and soubrette . She came from the Krüger-Demmer family of actors and died at the age of 30 after only 15 years of successful stage career in Vienna.

family

Thekla's parents were the actors and actresses Caroline , geb. Krüger, and Carl Demmer . Numerous important Viennese actors and singers came from this marriage, including

  • Friedrich Demmer (* 1785 in Berlin; † April 15, 1838 in Mariahilf near Vienna), worked as a singer from September 1829 to 1834, then as chief director of the kk Hofopertheater until his death,
  • Jeannette Schmidt born Demmer (born April 5, 1794 in Weimar; † March 14, 1862 in Vienna),
  • Josefine Scutta , b. Demmer (born September 19, 1795 in Frankfurt am Main, † December 22, 1863 in Vienna), wife of Andreas Scutta , both spouses were stage colleagues of Johann Nestroy and Wenzel Scholz .

Thekla Kneisel's uncle was Karl Friedrich Krüger , an actor at the Vienna Hofburgtheater .

career

Thekla Kneisel-Demmer worked as a singer at the court theater next to the Kärntnerthore from 1817 to 1824 and as an actress at the Hofburgtheater from 1824 to 1826. She was then committed to the Theater an der Wien by director Carl Carl as a “local soubrette” . Among other things, she played the role of the stone-breaker woman Mirzel in Moisasur's Zauberfluch in Raimund's works in 1827 and the chambermaid Linda in Der Barometermacher auf der Zauberinsel in 1831 , as well as with Nestroy in February 1832 the widow Adelheid in The Soulful Kerckermeister and in March of this year the Küchengretl Rosa in rodents and gloves .

A report in the Allgemeine Musikalischen Anzeiger of March 15, 1832 (No. 11, p. 43 f.) Showed that she had a very good reputation as a singer and actress :

"We have to say a few words at the Theater an der Wien once in a while to praise the brave and hardworking actress and singer Mad. Kneisel. This woman moves forward with every performance, both in play and in singing, and entertains the audience both with her comical play and the successful presentation of arietas and quodlibets . [...] We wish the theater good luck with this member. "

However, she only had a very short life span, because on August 20, 1832, she “suddenly became seriously ill ” and died on August 23 of this year. The Wiener Theater Zeitung of Adolf Bäuerle announced on August 25 their death (No. 170, f S. 679th.):

“The day before yesterday on 23 Aug., at two o'clock in the morning, Mad. Kneisel, née. Demmer, one of the most popular members of the Theater an der Wien, after surviving diarrhea from vomiting from a nervous fever . [...] Yesterday at 3 o'clock the solemn funeral ceremony took place in the parish on the Wieden at St. Karl ; in which there was no lack of grieving art lovers and many members of all the local theaters. "

In the collector of September 1st (No. 105, p. 420.) her death was also very much regretted:

"The friends of this theater will sorely miss the cheerfulness that this humorous artist, happily emulating the brilliant Krones who also passed away too quickly , knew how to spread."

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A. Hofmann-Wellenhof:  Schmidt (Schmiedt), (Maria) Johanna Carolina (Jeanette); born Demmer (1794–1862), actress. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 275.
  2. ↑ the married actresses were titled Mad. ( Madame ); Dlle. or Dem. was the abbreviation for Demoiselle (= Fräulein), the common name of the unmarried women of an ensemble at the time
personal data
SURNAME Kneisel, Thekla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demmer, Thekla (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress and singer (soubrette, mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1832
Place of death Vienna