Therese von Braunecker-Schäfer (3 April 1825 – 8 March 1888) was an Austrian theatre actress, singer (

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

) and dancer.

Life

Born in

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

, she showed talent for theatre at an early age and was engaged at the Deutsche Theater in Pest in 1850. There she attracted attention by her lively character, and already after one year of activity, she was chosen by director for the State Opera in Prague. She appeared on June 3 in ''Das Versprechen hinterm Herd'' and in ''Family Fliedermüller'' and struck with her strongly parodistic coarseness, her almost trivial, but fresh and powerful playing. Her engagement was regarded as the event of 1851 in the field of the burlesque under Hoffmann's direction and as the greatest act during his last years as director in Prague. When Stöger took over the direction, he was first and foremost concerned with preserving this Austrian local singer, who was already excellent at that time, for his institute. The time of her Prague artistic activity (1851 to 1855) remained unforgotten for a long time. She caused a special sensation as a "false Pepita", Die falsche Pepita
/ref> because she danced the Madrilena with such perfect grace that she aroused enthusiastic rejoicing with her performances. With the Madrilena she decided on 25 March 1855 to end her artistic activity at the Prague Landestheater. She came to Vienna at the Karltheater. There she worked as one of the most outstanding and most popular members beside Wenzel Scholz,

Johann Nestroy Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (; 7 December 1801 – 25 May 1862) was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath. He participated in the 1848 revolutions an ...

and

Karl Treumann Matthias Karl Ludwig Treumann (27 July 1823 – 18 April 1877) was an Austrian actor, operetta singer (tenor), theatre director and writer. Life After an apprenticeship as a printer in his native Hamburg in 1841, he went to the in Pest, w ...

, with whom she also changed to the Quaitheater. With the exception of the year 1869, in which she was active at the Lemberger Stadttheater, she also remained faithful to her hometown. Under Anton Ascher and

Franz von Jauner Franz Ritter von Jauner (14 November 1831, in Vienna – 23 February 1900, in Vienna) was an Austrian theatre director and opera intendant. He was the subject of a 1940 biographical film ''Operetta'' in which he was played by Willi Forst ...

she entered the field of the comical elderly. On 1 October 1880 she appeared in the operetta ''

Das Spitzentuch der Königin ' (''The Queen's Lace Handkerchief'') is an operetta by Johann Strauss II. The libretto by Heinrich Bohrmann-Riegen and Richard Genée was based on the Spanish writer Cervantes. It was first performed on 1 October 1880 in Vienna at the Theater ...

'' for the first time in the Theater an der Wien, on which stage she remained until her retirement. For the last time before her illness, she appeared before her numerous admirers at the

Theater auf der Wieden The Theater auf der Wieden, also called the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden or the Wiednertheater, was a theater located in the then-suburban Wieden district of Vienna in the late 18th century. It existed for only 14 years (1787–1801), but duri ...

on November 18, 1886. Then she retired to her relatives in

Jihlava Jihlava (; german: Iglau) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 50,000 inhabitants. Jihlava is the capital of the Vysočina Region, situated on the Jihlava River on the historical border between Moravia and Bohemia. Historically, Jihlava i ...

, where she died on March 8, 1888

Bibliography

* Ludwig Eisenberg: ''Großes biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert''. Edited by

Paul List Pawel M. List ( he, פאול ליסט, russian: Павел Лист; Odessa, 9 September 1887 – London? 1954) was a Russian Jewish chess player, who emigrated to Britain in 1937 but never took British citizenship. He was born in Odessa, Ukr ...

, Leipzig 1903, . * Therese Braunecker-Schäfer on Operissimo from the ''

Großes Sängerlexikon ''Großes Sängerlexikon'' (''Biographical Dictionary of Singers'', literally: Large singers' lexicon) is a single-field dictionary of singers in classical music, edited by Karl-Josef Kutsch and Leo Riemens and first published in 1987. The first ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:BrauneckerSchafer, Therese 1825 births 1888 deaths Singers from Vienna Austrian stage actresses Austrian female dancers Dancers from Vienna Austrian operatic sopranos