Alexandrine von Schönerer (15 June 1850 – 28 November 1919)[1] née Lucia was an Austrian theater owner, managing director and actress.
Schönerer had acting training with August Förster [de] (1828–1889) In 1875 at the Stadttheater Baden, she played the part of Countess Orsina in Lessing's "Emilia Galotti".
[2] Schönerer became managing director of the Theater an der Wien from 1889 to 1905 after the lease ended in 1884 between her and the librettist Camillo Walzel.
[4] According to an old agreement between Schönerer, the publisher Emil Berté and the librettists Bernhard Buchbinder and Alfred Maria Willner, Johann Strauss II composed his operetta Die Göttin der Vernunft, a French revolutionary comedy.
On 17 March 1900, Schönerer sold the theater to Leon Dorer, Baron Emil Kubinsky and Josef Edler von Simon.