Johanna Buska (14 April 1847 or 1848 – 16 May 1922) was a German actress and opera singer.

Life

Buska was born in

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. After engagements at the

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and an affair with

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she married the Hungarian nobleman Miklós Kázmér (Nikolaus Casimir) Török de Szendrő on 20 May 1880. During the four-year marriage a child was born, who possibly was from Rudolf. After Török's death the actress married the Prague theatre director and singer

Angelo Neumann Josef Angelo Neumann (18 August 1838 – 20 December 1910) was a German operatic baritone and theatre director. First a baritone at major opera houses in Europe, including the Vienna Imperial Opera, he was the managing director of the Leipzig O ...

. She returned to the stage again and played among others Ibsen's

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in Prague in 1888; at the beginning of the twentieth century she appeared in 's comedy ''Im bunten Rock''. Buska's first marriage inspired

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to write his novel ''Count Petöfy''. In the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and art collections a letter from Buska to Julius Rodenberg is kept; in the

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there are several autographs of the actress, especially from the collection of Otto Frankfurter. In the Alfred Reucker-Archive of the

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are also autographs and photos by Buska from the time of Angelo Neumann's death in December 1910. Buska died in

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.According to the death register of the city of Dresden, registry office Dresden XIV; there the date of birth is given as 1860.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Buska, Johanna German stage actresses Date of birth missing 1922 deaths Actors from Königsberg 19th-century German actresses 19th-century German women opera singers 20th-century German actresses Musicians from Königsberg 1840s births

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