Friedrich Strampfer

[1][2] He married in 1845 Anna von Ottenburg, an actress in the court theatre; she was Roman Catholic and Strampfer was Lutheran, so a priest to officiate was found with difficulty.

The marriage was soon after declared null and void by Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Strampfer and Anna were dismissed from the court theatre of Weimar.

[1][2] In 1862 Strampfer became manager of the Theater an der Wien: he ran the theatre with great success, with productions particularly of operettas of Jacques Offenbach, and engaging Josefine Gallmeyer and Marie Geistinger.

[2] His biographer in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (1879) wrote that Strampfer "has been praised for being particularly fortunate in discovering talent for the stage.

"[3] His biographer in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1893) wrote: "Strampfer was by nature an adventurer, full of enterprising spirit and understanding of the stage and the public.