Karoline Jagemann
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Weimar
Weimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...
- 10 July 1848, 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 major German tragic actress and singer. Her great roles included Elisabeth in Mary Stuart (1800) and Beatrice in The Bride of Messina (1803). She is also notable as a mistress of grand-duke Charles Augustus and she bore three children that he fathered. Charles Augustus and Karoline both had their portraits painted by Heinrich Christoph Kolbe
Heinrich Christoph Kolbe
Heinrich Christoph Kolbe was a German painter.-Life:Kolbe was born and died in Düsseldorf. After his education at the 'old' Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and then went to Paris for ten years to study. He was part of the circle of Friedrich Schlegel and worked on the review "Europa". He later worked in...
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Family
She was the daughter of the scholar and librarian Christian Joseph JagemannChristian Joseph Jagemann
Christian Joseph Jagemann was a German scholar, court-advisor and librarian.-Life:Against his parents' wishes Christian became a monk, entering the Augustinian monastery at Erfurt in 1752. However, he soon fled to Denmark, where he became a private tutor...
(1735-1804), and sister of the painter Ferdinand Jagemann
Ferdinand Jagemann
-Life:As son of the librarian Christian Joseph Jagemann, he was brother to the actress Karoline Jagemann. Karoline was mistress to Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, who allowed Ferdinand to train with the Tischbein painters. He was also a student of the court-painter Georg...
(1780-1820).
Life
Mannheim
Mannheim is a city in southwestern Germany. With about 315,000 inhabitants, Mannheim is the second-largest city in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, following the capital city of Stuttgart....
under August Iffland
August Wilhelm Iffland
August Wilhelm Iffland was a German actor and dramatic author. His father intended him to be a clergyman, but Iffland preferred the stage, and at eighteen ran away to Gotha in order to prepare himself for a theatrical career.He was fortunate enough to receive instruction from Hans Ekhof, and made...
and Heinrich Beck
Heinrich Beck (actor)
Heinrich Christian Beck was a German actor and playwright.Beck began his theatrical career with August Iffland and Johann David Beil at the Hoftheater in Gotha and, like most of the ensemble, went to the Mannheim National Theater after the Hoftheater was disbanded in 1779...
. She made her debut in 1792 in the title role of the opera Oberon - the fairy king by Pavel Wranitzky at Mannheim's Nationaltheater and was engaged as a court-singer in Weimar in 1797.
Jagemann, the soprano Henriette Eberwein, the tenor Carl Melchior Jakob Moltke and the bass Karl Stromeier made up the "Wemiar Quartet". She was guest-singer in 1798 at Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, in 1800 at Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, and later in Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig
Leipzig
Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
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In 1809 her lover, grand-duke Charles Augustus, made her "freewoman of Heygendorff" and left her Heygendorf
Heygendorf
Heygendorf is a municipality in the district Kyffhäuserkreis, in Thuringia, Germany....
manor. Witnessed by the grand-duke, their son Karl
Karl von Heygendorff
Karl von Heygendorff was a German officer in the army of the Kingdom of Saxony, rising to major general. From 1809 he was known as Carl of Heygendorf.-Life:...
was officially granted the title of Heygendorff on 16 May 1809 and he and his children entered the Saxon grand-ducal nobility.
In the same year Karoline Jagemann von Heygendorff was made director of the opera and - after Goethe's retirement from theatre - took over as sole director of the court theatre, from 1824 as Oberdirektor. After Charles Augustus's death in 1828, Karoline retired from the stage and lived out her last years with her son in 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....
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Issue with Charles Augustus
- Carl of WolfgangKarl von HeygendorffKarl von Heygendorff was a German officer in the army of the Kingdom of Saxony, rising to major general. From 1809 he was known as Carl of Heygendorf.-Life:...
(b. Weimar, 25 December 1806 - d. Dresden, 17 February 1895). - August of Heygendorff (b. Weimar, 10 August 1810 - d. Dresden, 23 January 1874).
- Mariana of Heygendorff (b. Weimar, 8 April 1812 - d. 's Gravenhage, 10 August 1836), married on 15 October 1835 to Daniel, Baron Tindal.