Adolf Rösicke (actor)

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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

  1. ↑ Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 15, Part 2, Weimar 1839, p. 640
  2. ↑ L. Wolff (ed.), Almanach for Friends of Dramatic Art for the year 1837 , Berlin 1838, p. 74
  3. ↑ 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 )
  4. ↑ August Junckermann, Memoirs of a Court Actor, Stuttgart 1888, chap. VIII, p. 62
  5. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.), German biographical encyclopedia , Volume 8, Munich (KG Saur) 2007, ISBN 978-3598250385 , p. 489
personal data
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