"Las[Beta] mich sein, was ich bin": Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld's performance of a lifetime

From: German Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The German actress Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld wrote two autobiographical manuscripts: "Die Ganze Geschichte meines Lebens," begun toward the end of 1782, and "Die Geschichte meines Theatralischen Lebens," written in 1793. These two texts, edited and published by Emil Beneze in 1915 under the title Lebenserinnerungen der Komodiantin Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld are a fascinating record of the conditions under which an actress worked and lived in the 18th century, and a rich source of information about the German theatre.1 In fact, what little scholarship exists on these memoirs tends to rely ...

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