Karl Friedrich Krüger (18 December 1765 – 21 April 1828) was a German actor and the brother of actress

Caroline Demmer Caroline Friederike Wilhelmine Demmer (''née'' Krüger; 12 February 1764 – 14 April 1813) was a German-Austrian actress and singer. Life Born in Berlin, Krüger was the sister of actor Karl Friedrich Krüger (1765–1828) and began her theate ...

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Krüger was born in Berlin. His father was a musician in the royal chapel in Berlin. He himself made his debut on 14 February 1785 at the Hoftheater in Berlin as Kosinsky in Schiller's drama ''

The Robbers ''The Robbers'' (', ) is the first drama by German playwright Friedrich Schiller. The play was published in 1781 and premiered on 13 January 1782 in Mannheim, Germany, and was inspired by Leisewitz' earlier play ''Julius of Taranto''. It wa ...

''. In 1786–87 he was engaged—with his sister—in

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

, later in

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebur ...

and

Hannover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German States of Germany, state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germa ...

, and went to Amsterdam in 1789. In 1791 he returned to Weimar and worked there until 1793. At the Weimar premiere of ''

Don Carlos ''Don Carlos'' is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the dramatic play '' Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien'' (''Don Carlos, Infante of Spain'') by Friedri ...

'', on 22 February 1792, he played Domingo. Further stations were again Amsterdam, Prague, Karlsbad,

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany a ...

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(1797–1799),

Freiberg Freiberg is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany. It is a so-called ''Große Kreisstadt'' (large county town) and the administrative centre of Mittelsachsen district. Its historic town centre has been placed under heritage c ...

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and from 1800

Brünn Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inha ...

. In 1802 he went to the Wiener

Burgtheater The Burgtheater (literally:"Castle Theater" but alternatively translated as "(Imperial) Court Theater"), originally known as '' K.K. Theater an der Burg'', then until 1918 as the ''K.K. Hofburgtheater'', is the national theater of Austria in Vi ...

, to which he belonged until his death. He was regarded as an extremely versatile actor who later also appeared as a comedian.

Ignaz Franz Castelli Ignaz Franz Castelli (6 March 1781 – 5 February 1862) was an Austrian dramatist born in Vienna. He studied law at the university, and then entered the government service. During the Napoleonic invasions his patriotism inspired him to wri ...

wrote about him: He was married to the actress

Karoline Krüger Karoline Krüger (born 13 February 1970 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian singer, actress and composer. Career Krüger's first TV appearance was at the age of 11, in a youth show called ''Halvsju''. She got her breakthrough in 1988, first by ...

. His sister-in-law was

Franziska Romana Koch Franziska Romana Koch, née Gieraneck, Giwraneck, Giraneck, Jiránek (1748–1796) was a German ballet dancer, soprano, and actress. First a dancer as the member of the theatre company Kochische Gesellschaft, she also trained her voice and worked ...

and his father-in-law was

Antonín Jiránek Antonín Jiránek (''Anton Giranek'', c. 1712 – 16 January 1761) was a Bohemian violinist and composer. Life Born in Mladá Boleslav, Jiránek was trained in Prague. He was the first violinist in the royal chapel in Warsaw and later in the Poli ...

Anna Feodorowna Krüger Anna Feodorowna Krüger (born Anna Feodorowna Spengler: 28 February 1792 - 4 August 1814) was a German stage actress of great promise who died young. Life Anna Feodorowna Spengler was born in Saint Petersburg which at that time was home to a larg ...

, also an actress, was his adopted daughter. Krüger died in Vienna at the age of 62.

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