August Haake (actor)

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August Haake (born May 5, 1793 in Koenigsberg in the Neumark ; † April 18, 1864 in Darmstadt ) was a German theater actor and director .

Life

Haake grew up as the son of a tailor with an uncle . He enjoyed a thorough education in high school , but was fascinated by the theater early on. August Wilhelm Iffland described him as a talent for the stage, but recommended that he wait with a career in theater. Therefore, Haake first went into the civil service as a copyist in his hometown. In 1811 he finally received a recommendation to Stettin from Iffland and began his acting career there. As a result, he had to make ends meet as a member of touring theaters and sometimes suffered great hardship. Finally he gained a foothold at the Karlsruhe court theater and was able to marry the actress Auguste Neustädt (1788–1880). After further intermediate stops, his career finally turned out to be more successful: in 1818 he worked under August Klingemann in Braunschweig , where until 1823 he mainly took on the roles of lovers and heroes and also directed . After further engagements he was director of the stages in Mainz and Wiesbaden from 1829, and of the Breslau theater in 1835 . Haake came to Oldenburg via Braunschweig and Hamburg , where he was engaged as a director and actor by Ludwig Starklof in 1841 . A critic characterized him in 1841 as a thinking artist . After just four years he gave up his position in Oldenburg for health reasons. Later he worked as a director and actor in Frankfurt am Main and - after a position as theater director in Heidelberg (1854) - also worked in Meiningen and Nuremberg .

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SURNAME Haake, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg in the Neumark
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1864
Place of death Darmstadt