Therese Krones

Therese Krones ( born October 7, 1801 in Freudenthal Austrian Silesia, † December 28, 1830 in Vienna) was an Austrian actress.

Life

Krones was the daughter of actor Franz Josef Krones and his wife Anna Theresa. The actor Josef Krones was her brother.

The age of five was Krones along with her brother and her father on stage. She played at a variety of stages in Bratislava, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Graz and Sopron. In Ödenburg she was discovered by Ferdinand Raimund.

In 1821 she went to an engagement at the Leopoldstadt Theater. She made her debut with the play The funny tragedy Evakathel and Prince Schnudi or the siege of Ypsilon by Philipp Hafner. In the next few years they played on the side of Ferdinand Raimund Friedrich Josef Korntheuer and Ignaz Schuster in works of the Viennese popular theater.

The big breakthrough to success had Krones 1824 Rosamunde in the comedy Lindane or the fairy of hair cut-purse, or slipper -making in the fairy kingdom of Adolf Bäuerle. Two years later, in 1826, she celebrated her biggest success as a youth in the fairy tale The girl from the fairy world or the farmer a millionaire by Ferdinand Raimund.

Moritz von Schwind recorded Krones in the trouser role as a youth, and Joseph Kriehuber, the portraitist of the Viennese society, verfertigte a lithograph after this picture. This presentation was inter alia used by the pastry shop Demel as a model for a statue made ​​of icing.

Krones career and social level flight was characterized by a very lavish life. This suddenly stood before the off, as the Polish nobles Severin of Jaroszynski, the lover of Therese Krones, exposed as a fraud and a murderer and 1827 executed at the Spinner at the cross was.

Krones disappeared from the social life of Vienna and wanted to enter the convent. Ferdinand Raimund succeeded after several months of begging, her back to the theater. On September 6, 1827 they were in the title role of Julerl, the milliner again admire.

1828, she played in Nettchen Sylphide, the Seefräulein; an extravaganza, which she herself had written.

1830 left her with Ferdinand Raimund, the Leopoldstadt Theatre and moved to the Theater an der Wien.

On December 28, 1830 Therese Krones died after a short illness at the age of 29 years in Vienna. She was buried on St. Marx Cemetery, where she was but exhumed again in the 20th century and at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 32 A, number 45 A) was buried in a grave of honor in Vienna .. In the St. Marx cemetery reminds one a little cenotaph to the original burial ground.

In 1930 in Vienna Dobling ( 19th district ) was named the Kronengasse after her.

Works

• The distiller and the fog spirit (1829 )
• Cleopatra ( 1830)
• Sylphide, The Lake Miss (1828 ) - full text online.