Anna Feodorowna Krüger (born Anna Feodorowna Spengler: 28 February
1792 - 4 August 1814) was a German stage actress of great promise who
died young.Anna Feodorowna Spengler was born in Saint Petersburg which
at that time was home to a large and apparently permanent German
expatriate community. Her mother, Karoline Spengler, was a stage
actress. Her father, Franz Spengler, was a theatre director from
Prague. However, he died while she was still young. When the child was
ten her mother married a third husband, the actor Karl Friedrich
Krüger: he adopted Anna. Mother and daughter now became respectively
Karoline Krüger and Anna Krüger: these are the names by which they
are normally identified in sources.Her parents recognised and
encouraged her talent as an actress. She made her stage debut as
"Amalie" in Schickaneder's Hauer in Österreich at Schickaneder's
recently opened and lavishly appointed Theater an der Wien (in Vienna)
on 1 September 1804. The play appears not to have survived, but
Schickaneder's new theatre prospered and Anna Krüger remained there
as part of the company till 1808 or 1809.In 1808 Emanuel Schikaneder
took a position as director at the Reduta Theatre in Brünn (as the
city was known to German speakers at the time). Anna Feodorowna was
among those who went with him, and it was here that she took her first
major stage roles. However, by 1809 she was back in Vienna where at
Easter of that year she made her debut at the Hofbühne Theater, where
her (adoptive) father was already an established member of the
company. It was here that she came to the fore as a performer.
1792 - 4 August 1814) was a German stage actress of great promise who
died young.Anna Feodorowna Spengler was born in Saint Petersburg which
at that time was home to a large and apparently permanent German
expatriate community. Her mother, Karoline Spengler, was a stage
actress. Her father, Franz Spengler, was a theatre director from
Prague. However, he died while she was still young. When the child was
ten her mother married a third husband, the actor Karl Friedrich
Krüger: he adopted Anna. Mother and daughter now became respectively
Karoline Krüger and Anna Krüger: these are the names by which they
are normally identified in sources.Her parents recognised and
encouraged her talent as an actress. She made her stage debut as
"Amalie" in Schickaneder's Hauer in Österreich at Schickaneder's
recently opened and lavishly appointed Theater an der Wien (in Vienna)
on 1 September 1804. The play appears not to have survived, but
Schickaneder's new theatre prospered and Anna Krüger remained there
as part of the company till 1808 or 1809.In 1808 Emanuel Schikaneder
took a position as director at the Reduta Theatre in Brünn (as the
city was known to German speakers at the time). Anna Feodorowna was
among those who went with him, and it was here that she took her first
major stage roles. However, by 1809 she was back in Vienna where at
Easter of that year she made her debut at the Hofbühne Theater, where
her (adoptive) father was already an established member of the
company. It was here that she came to the fore as a performer.
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