Arthur Woltersdorff

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Arthur Woltersdorff (born September 1, 1817 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † December 16, 1878 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and theater manager. For more than three decades he shaped the Königsberg theater life.

Act

Woltersdorff was director of the Königsberg City Theater from 1844 to 1876 . He often performed plays by Königsbergers, plays by Felix Dahn and Ernst Wichert and operas by Eduard Sobolewski , August Pabst and Gustav Dullo . He also brought in young people like Adolf von Sonnenthal . At the 600th anniversary of Königsberg and the coronation of Wilhelm I in Königsberg (1861), he brought about remarkable performances. The ensemble he built had a good reputation and therefore made guest appearances in Berlin in 1851 and 1853 in front of Friedrich Wilhelm IV. For his appearance in the Royal Opera House on Unter den Linden he received the honorary title of royal commissioner . Later he became a privy councilor . In 1858/1859 he also directed the Kroll'sche Theater , and from 1864 to 1874 the Woltersdorff Theater in front of the Oranienburger Tor . Rudolf von Gottschall , 1847/1848 dramaturge at Woltersdorff, writes:

“Woltersdorff had raised the Königsberg theater, which he took over under the most difficult circumstances; The year 1847 in particular was a good year for theater, marked by successful novelties. 1848 also started off well; Then came the February Revolution in Paris , and since then the political tension and heat in Konigsberg reached a climax which made interest in the theater wan. Indeed, when important news arrived it was announced from the stage. Myself, director Wolff, also Albert Dulk, […] we all appeared behind the proscenium lamps in order to win the audience's enthusiasm not through artistic achievements, but through new news from the world theater. The theater was languishing, Woltersdorff sighed and was happy to let the aforementioned communications and pronunciations, with which he personally did not sympathize in the least, take place from the stage; but the art temple would have had to close its gates if the stage had remained without any contact with the current events. "

- Rudolf von Gottschall

Since he had to pay high leases for the theater's stock corporation , he was primarily a theater practitioner and businessman. His stinginess was known in the theater world and was ridiculed throughout the empire.

Works

  • Theatrical . Berlin 1856.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
  2. ↑ a b Otto Vigouroux: From my golden time 1857-60 , in: Festschrift for the 75th Foundation Festival of the Corps Masovia. Koenigsberg 1905.
  3. ↑ Rudolf Gottschall (kultur-in-ostpreussen.de)
personal data
SURNAME Woltersdorff, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and theater manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1878
Place of death Berlin