Caroline Bauer
Karoline Bauer ( born March 29, 1807 in Heidelberg, † October 18, 1877 in Kilchberg near Zurich ) was a German actress of the Biedermeier period.
Life
After the death of her father, who fell as captain of Aspern, they settled down in 1814 with her family in Karlsruhe. Her debut as a pianist she successfully completed in 1820 in the Museum hall to mark the D minor concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The music neglected farmhouse in favor of the theater. She took acting classes with Mlle Demmer, a student of August Wilhelm Iffland. With their help, she could in December 1822 - at the Karlsruhe Court Theatre - debut in the role of " Margaret " as an actress.
Grace, naturalness and peculiar talent, they quickly made a celebrated favorite of the audience. 1824 she was appointed to the King Urban Theater in Berlin and then hired half a year at the local court stage.
In 1829 she left the stage to be raised to the Countess Montgomery, to marry Prince Leopold of Coburg, from which she was divorced in 1831, when he accepted as Leopold I, the Belgian royal crown.
To stage Returning she followed in 1831 a call to Saint Petersburg and toured in 1834 with extraordinary success in Vienna, Budapest, Leipzig, Hamburg, Berlin, Lübeck, etc., later in Dresden, at the Court Theatre she worked until 1844 The longer applause. Your leave there they were in the role of " Armand ".
Even in St. Petersburg and later in Germany it was in competition with her colleague Charlotte von Hagn, who played at the theater in Berlin. The theater audience was divided depending on the following in " Hagnianer " and " Bauerianer ".
Since 1844 the Polish emigrants Count Ladislaus Broel - Plater married, she died on 18 October 1877 Villa Broëlberg in Zurich.
Its editor, Arnold Wellmer, published posthumously " Missing heart stories ", including with unauthorized letters maker, and he quoted from her unpublished diaries. This has been controversial not only in public, but also had a lengthy process with the Count Plater result.
Roles (selection)
- Margaret in The bachelors of August Wilhelm Iffland
- Julia in Ashamed jealousy of Johanna Franul of white Thurn
- Raisin in lawyer and farmer Johann Rautenstrauch
- Susie in The Bridegroom of Mexico from Heinrich Clauren
- Preciosa Preciosa by Pius Alexander Wolff in
- Donna Diana, Donna Diana by Agustin Moreto
- Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Mary Stuart in Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
- Princess in Torquato Tasso by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Kate in Cathy of Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist
Works
- Out of my life on stage. 1st edition Berlin, 1871. ( Digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
- Out of my life on stage. 2nd edition, Berlin 1876 ( 2 vols ).
- Comedians rides. Berlin 1875 (edited by Arnold Wellmer ).
- Missing heart stories / Posthumous Memoirs ( edited by Arnold Wellmer ), 1878 /80 Louis Gerschel Verlagsbuchhandlung Berlin.