Josefine Gallmeyer

[1] Josefine Gallmeyer was the illegitimate daughter of the actress Katharina Tomaselli [de] with opera singer Michael Greiner.

After guesting at the Theater in der Josefstadt, Nestroy facilitated Gallmeyer's residency at the Carltheater in Vienna in 1857.

Friedrich Strampfer, the director of the German State Theatre Timișoara, engaged her there and further facilitated a tour of Germany.

In the following years, she performed at the Theater an der Wien, Carltheater, as well as venues in Hamburg, Berlin and Graz.

At times, she was considered very wealthy, but due to her immense charity she was impoverished when she died in Vienna on 3 February 1884 at the age of 46.