Friederike Caroline Neuber
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Friederike Caroline Neuber, also called Die Neuberin, (9 March 1697 in Reichenbach im Vogtland - 30 November 1760 near Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

), was a German actor and theatre director. She is one of the most famous artists in the history of the German theater.

Friederike Caroline Neuber's father was a legal court inspector. she ran away from home in 1717 with the student Johann Neuber, whom she married in 1718. In 1727, she was made royal court actress and the leader of her own theatre troupe. She was active in the introduction of the French theatre in Germany. In 1737, she produced the play about Hanswurst
Hanswurst
Hanswurst was a popular coarse-comic figure of German-speaking impromptu comedy. He is "a half doltish half cunning partly stupid partly knowing enterprising and cowardly self indulgent and merry fellow who in accordance with circumstances accentuated one or other of these characteristics."Through...

, intending it as a banishment of the coarse comic character. The staged banishment has generally been regarded as an emblematic moment in German theatre history for the transition from popular, improvised, so-called ‘Stegreiftheater’ to a modern bourgeois literary mode.
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