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Josephine Gallmeyer
actress Born in 1838, she went on to become an outstanding exponent of the whole range
of comic roles. She was the acknowledged favorite of the Viennese public. She was also a leading operetta performer and folk singer of her day. She explained that, “an opera singer sings such high German that you usually can’t understand a word; a folksinger, however, sings just what she thinks, so you understand not only what she sings but also a whole lot more.” Gallmeyer and others transferred this well-developed art of innuendo and double entendre to the operetta stage. Her works in both the fields helped in preserving the links between the two genres of dialect drama as well as operetta.
