Born to the tenor
Valentin Adamberger and the actress
Maria Anna Jacquet, she was raised after the death of her parents by the poet
Heinrich Joseph von Collin. Debuting at the age of sixteen on
New Year's Day 1807 at the
Burgtheater, she was immediately engaged as a Court Actress and "straightway found great acclaim as an
ingénue, in both sentimental and some tragic parts." . Postcard after a painting by Hugo Schubert. In 1812
Theodor Körner was employed as a principal author for the
Burgtheater. Adamberger saw him for the first time at a rehearsal for his comic piece,
Der grüne Domino ("The Green
Domino"). In the same year she and the poet were betrothed. In February 1812, Körner write his drama
Toni, in which his
fiancée later undertook the leading part. Antonie Adamberger belonged to the circle of the Austrian novelist
Karoline Pichler, who later wrote of her appearance in
Toni: Until his death in 1813 Körner wrote numerous poems to her, particularly directing to her his tragedy
Zriny after her success in
Toni. In 1817, some years after the poet's untimely death, Adamberger abandoned the stage and married the
antiquary and
numismatist Joseph Calasanza von Arneth. Two years later their son
Alfred von Arneth was born. In 1820 Antonie became Reader to the Empress
Caroline Augusta. In 1832 Adamberger was named Directress of the
Karolinestift, an institute for the raising of soldiers' daughters. , 1856 Antonie Adamberger died in Vienna in 1867. Her body lies in a "distinguished grave" (
Ehrengrab) in the
Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 14 A, Number 49).
Circa 1805 Joseph Hickel painted a portrait of Adamberger, from which Johann Maria Monsomo produced a
miniature of her. In 1894 a street in Vienna in the
Leopoldstadt district (District 2) was named the
Adambergergasse after her. The
Arnethgasse in the
Ottakring district (District 16) was named after her husband. ==Bibliography==