Adolf Rösicke (actor)
Adolf Rösicke (born January 9, 1829 in Berlin , † October 18, 1891 in Oldenburg ) was a German theater actor and director.
Life
Adolf Rösicke was the son of an actor, probably Eduard Karl Rösicke , who had been employed at the Königstädter Theater in Berlin until 1832 . Later he came to Oldenburg, where he died in 1837, leaving behind his widow and two children.
From 1851 Rösicke was a lover and hero at the Coburg Theater, in 1856 he moved to Leipzig and later to Braunschweig , from 1859 to 1862 he worked in Cologne and then in Bremen . From 1867 or 1868 he directed the Bremen theater. In addition to Rösicke, the court actor August Junkermann had also applied for this post; after Rösicke had been preferred to him, Junkermann, as he reports in his memoir, broke his contract out of anger and left his position at the Bremen theater: "Rösicke generously forgave me for my hasty step, he has remained a dear friend to this day. Good Rösicke made no use of the right to have me legally persecuted. After a year and a day, I paid off the advance I had received from him through guest appearances, and during his later leadership in Mainz and Riga I remained his constant guest and friend. "
Adolf Rösicke stayed in Bremen until 1877. From 1880 he worked as a theater director in Mainz and from 1885 to 1890 in Riga.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 15, Part 2, Weimar 1839, p. 640
- ↑ L. Wolff (ed.), Almanach for Friends of Dramatic Art for the year 1837 , Berlin 1838, p. 74
- ↑ Hans Heering, The Oldenburger Theater under Starklof , in: Oldenburger Jahrbücher 68, 1969, pp. 77–146, here p. 114 f. ( Memento from October 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ August Junckermann, Memoirs of a Court Actor, Stuttgart 1888, chap. VIII, p. 62
- ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.), German biographical encyclopedia , Volume 8, Munich (KG Saur) 2007, ISBN 978-3598250385 , p. 489
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SURNAME | Rösicke, Adolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor and director |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1829 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1891 |
Place of death | Oldenburg |