Adolphe d'Ennery

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Adolphe d'Ennery.

Adolphe Dennery or d'Ennery (born June 17, 1811 in Paris , Faubourg du Temple; † January 25, 1899 in Paris; actually Adolphe Philippe ) was a French playwright who wrote numerous dramas , opera librettos and occasionally novels based on dramatic themes.

person

Adolphe Philippe was the illegitimate son of the Mainz-born Jew Jacob Philippe (1765–1869) and Guiton Dennery (1785–?), Who married a year after his birth, whereupon he received the right to change his family name on January 10, 1860 Mother to wear. He was initially a clerk at a notary , but also tried his hand at painting and journalism and achieved his first stage successes in 1831 with a few plays on a boulevard theater . As a playwright, he signed first as Adolphe Dennery , later with increasing success with the nobility pseudonym Adolphe d'Ennery .

D'Ennery was able to assert himself as one of the most successful melodramatists in France for around fifty years . The number of his pieces, some of which he wrote together with other authors and some alone, is around 200. His collaborators included Alexandre Dumas , Jules-Henri Brésil , Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois , Eugène Cormon , and Louis Gallet [1835–1898 ], Eugène Grangé , Edouard Plouvier , Paul Foucher , Louis François Clairville , Hector Crémieux , Jules Verne .

The subject matter of his play, which is still best known today and which he wrote together with Eugène Cormon, Les deux orphelines (1873), which he also published as a novel, first in booklet form and then as a book (1895), was filmed several times in the 20th century (1921 as a silent film Two orphans in the storm ( Orphans of the Storm ) by DW Griffith based on the novel, 1932 as Les deux orphelins by Maurice Tourneur based on the stage text, 1965 as Le due orfanelle by Riccardo Freda, in 1995 as Les deux based on the novel orphelines vampires by Jean Rollin ). Ernst Lubitsch's first American film , Rosita (1923), also goes back to Don César de Bazan's material , which d'Ennery worked on several times, first as a drama in five acts (first performance in 1844, printed in 1845) , which was also the model for the eponymous comic opera in three acts (1872) by Jules Massenet .

D'Ennery was also successful as an entrepreneur. After Henri Durand-Morimbaud and Achile Colin, the directors of the Parisian Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin , tried to found a seaside resort for Parisian tourists in Cabourg , in Normandy , but soon went bankrupt, d'Ennery took up this project again on, had a beach hotel (1861) and a new casino (1867) built, became mayor of Cabourg and contributed significantly to the fact that the place became at times one of the most popular, in d'Ennery's time especially by Parisian theater people, Writers and artists visited seaside resorts in Normandy.

Works (selection)

Dramas and melodramas

  • Emile, ou le fils d'un pair de France (1831), co-author Charles Desnoyer
  • L'honneur de ma fille (1835)
  • Gaspar Hauser (1838), co-author Anicet Bourgeois
  • Le tremblement de terre de la Martinique (1840)
  • La grâce de Dieu, ou la nouvelle Fanchon , German Fanchon, the lyre girl
  • La pearl de Savoie (1842)
  • Les bohémiens de Paris (1843), co-author: Eugène Grangé
  • Le marché de Londres (1845)
  • Marie Jeanne (1845), German Marie Anne, a woman from the people
  • L'Angelus (1846)
  • Gastibelza, ou le Fou de Tolède (1847), co-author: Eugène Cormon , music: Aimé Maillart
  • Paillasse (1850), co-author: Marc-Fournier (d. I. Jean Louis Marc Fournier), dt.Bajazzo
  • La croix de Marie (1852), co-author: Lockroy (d. I. Joseph Philippe Simon), music: Aimé Maillart
  • La Bergère des Alpes (1852), co-author: Charles Desnoyer
  • Les oiseaux de proie (1854)
  • Faust (1858), music by Arthus Laguy
  • L'histoire d'un drapeau (1860)
  • La prize de Pékin (1861)
  • Les deux orphelines (1873)
  • Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (1874), co-author: Jules Verne
  • Les enfants du capitaine Grant (1878), co-authored by Jules Verne
  • Michel Strogoff (1880), co-author: Jules Verne

Comedy and vaudevilles

  • Le changement daniforme (1836)
  • La dette à la bamhoche (1841)
  • Paris voleur (1844)
  • Le mari anonyme (1847)
  • Les mémoires de Richelieu (1853)

Holidays

  • Si j'étais roi (1852), co-author: Jules-Henri Brésil, music: Adolphe Adam , dt. If I were king
  • Les sept merveilles du monde (1850), co-author: Eugène Grangé
  • Les 500 diables (1854)
  • Aladdin, ou la lampe mervellieuse (1863)
  • La comtesse de Lerins (1876)
  • Le tribut de Zamora (1881), music: Charles Gounod

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pierre Larousse : Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle. 1866 ( online at artlyrique.fr).
personal data
SURNAME Ennery, Adolphe d '
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dennery, Adolphe; Philippe, Adolphe (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French playwright
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1899
Place of death Paris