!!!Gallmeyer, Josefine geborene Tomaselli

b. Leipzig (Germany), Feb. 27, 1838, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 3, 1884, actress, soubrette, singer of folk songs, 
dancer, author ("the female Nestroy"). As a child she acted in Brno 
and later toured Hungary with a theatre company. Under the direction 
of J.  Nestroy she came to the Carltheater in Vienna in 1857. From 
1860-1862 worked in Temesvár under F.  Strampfer, with whom she 
came to the Theater an der Wien in 1862. From 1865 acted again at the 
Carltheater, where she became the most popular singer and actress at 
the popular stages of Vienna of her time. In 1872 was called to the 
Theater unter den Tuchlauben, which had been founded by Strampfer, and 
took over the management of the theatre in 1874. Went on tour in 
Germany and America in 1882/83. Although very wealthy at times, almost 
her entire fortune had been lost by the time of her death.

!Works
Novellas: Aus is´, Die Schwestern, 1882. -Dramas: Aus 
purem Hass, 1883; Sarah und Bernhard, 1884 (parody).

!Literature
B. Glossy and G. Berger, J. G., 1947; E. P. 
Danszky, Die G., 1953.



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