Rosa Streitmann

Born in Vienna as Rosalia Streitmann,Birth register of the Jewish Community Vienna, tom. B, No. 3211 Streitmann was the daughter of a stockbroker, her brother was the operetta singer Karl Streitmann. She is said to have first enjoyed ballet training with {{Ill|Virgilius Calori|pl}}, but then turned to singing under pressure from her parents. She received lessons from her aunt Rosa Csillag. A first public performance is mentioned in the press in February 1875.{{Cite web|url=http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nfb&datum=18750207&seite=3 |title=Kirchenmusik |work=Neues Fremden-Blatt |date=1875-02-07 |pages=3 |accessdate=29 December 2019 |language=de}} In June 1876 she made her debut at the Carltheater in Offenbach's SchönröschenSchönröschen = La jolie parfumeuse : komische Operette in 3 Acten] on Library of Congress[https://www.loc.gov/item/2010662006/ {{Cite web|url=http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nfp&datum=18760610&page=6 |title=Theatre and Art News |work=New Free Press |date=1876-06-10 |pages=6 |accessdate=29 December 2019 |language=en}} at the world premiere of Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio she sang the role of Fiametta. In 1881 she changed to the Theater an der Wien.{{Cite web |url=http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=waz&date=18810519&seite=5 |title=Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur |work=Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung |date=1881-05-19 |pages=5 |accessdate=29 December 2019 |language=de}}

In December 1885 Streitmann married Fritz von Jenny, a grandson of Franz von Suppé. However, shortly after the marriage, he lived together with Streitmann's sister-in-law Louise. The resulting scandal led to several lawsuits.{{Cite web |url=http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nfp&datum=18860622&seite=6 |title=Veruntreuung |work=Neue Freie Presse|date=1886-06-22 |pages=6 |accessdate=29 December 2019 |language=de}}

After that Streitmann was briefly employed in Moscow (1886), at the {{Ill|Berliner Theater|de}} and at the Königsstädtisches Theater (1887). Her second marriage was to Heinrich Benvenisti from 1888 with the marriage ending in divorce in 1898.

Her engagement in the Theater in der Josefstadt, which she began in 1889, ended with mutual recriminations and a trial,{{Cite web |url=http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=apr&datum=18910101&seite=16 |title=A Theater-Process |work=Die Presse |date=1891-01-01 |pages=16 |accessdate=29 December 2019 |language=de}} from which Streitmann finally emerged victorious.{{Cite web|url=http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=apr&datum=18920320&seite=9 |title=Principal decision in a theater process |work=The Press |date=1892-03-20 |pages=9f |accessdate=29 December 2019 |language=de}} From a stay abroad (possibly in Paris) she returned to Vienna in 1893, where she sang again at the Carlstheater in 1897.{{Cite web |url=http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=vtl&datum=18971028&seite=6 |title=Theater und Kunst |work=Das Vaterland |date=1897-10-28 |pages=6 |accessdate=29 December 2019 |language=de}} She made her last stage appearance in 1900 at the Operettenhaus in Hamburg.{{Cite web|author= |url=http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nwg&datum=19000523&seite=30 |title=Theater und Kunst |work=Neues Wiener Tagblatt (Tages-Ausgabe) |date=1900-05-23 |pages=30 |accessdate=29 December 2019 |language=de}}

At the latest since 1897 she worked as a singing teacher{{Cite web|url=http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=dvb&datum=18970123&seite=16 |title=Anzeige |work=Deutsches Volksblatt |date=23 January 1897|pages=16 |accessdate=29 December 2019 |language=de}} from 1905 for the Musikschulen Kaiser.

From 1920 Streitmann lived in poor conditions,{{Cite web|url=http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=tpt&datum=19201113&seite=3 |title=Das Los einer ehemaligen Operettendiva |work=Tages-Post |date=1920-11-13 |pages=3 |accessdate=29 December 2019 |language=de}} first in the Gumpendorfer Straße, last in Baden bei Wien. Streitmann died in the Vienna General Hospital at age 80 and was buried at Wiener Zentralfriedhof on 2 August 1937.{{Cite web|url=http://data.matricula-online.eu/de/oesterreich/wien-evang-dioezese-HB/wien-innere-stadt-reformierte-stadtkirche/STB16/?pg=51 |title=Sterbebuch der Reformierten Stadtkirche Wien, volume XVI, page 51 |work=Matricula|accessdate=29 December 2019 |language=de}}

• {{ÖBL|13|395|395|Streitmann Rosa|C. M. Gruber}}
• Ludwig Eisenberg: Großes biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert. Paul List publisher, Leipzig 1903, ({{archive.org|ludwigeisenberg00eiseuoft |Blatt=1013}}).
• Alexander Rausch, Monika Kornberger: [https://www.musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_S/Streitmann_Geschwister.xml Streitmann, Geschwister] in Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon. Online-edition, Vienna 2002 ff., {{ISBN|3-7001-3077-5}}; Printed edition volume 5, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2006, {{ISBN|3-7001-3067-8}}.

• [https://web.operissimo.com/triboni/exec?method=com.operissimo.artist.webDisplay&xsl=webDisplay&id=ffcyoieagxaaaaabgbep Streitmann Rosa] on Operissimo.

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