August of Loën

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August of Loën (1884)

August Friedrich Oger von Loën (born January 27, 1828 in Dessau , † April 28, 1887 in Jena ) was a German court official, writer and theater director. Loën was general manager of the court theater and the court orchestra in Weimar. In 1885 he was one of the founding members of the Weimar Goethe Society , whose first board he was Vice President.

Life

In 1846 he was a lieutenant in the service of the ducal-Anhalt and in 1849 took part in the war against Denmark for Schleswig-Holstein. In 1852 he married Marie von Salza and Lichtenau (1831–1899) and was appointed chamberlain to the Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and Princess Antoinette of Saxony-Altenburg. Around this time his literary activity began with publications in the magazines "Unterhaltungen am häuslichen Herd", "Deutsche Revue", " Blätter für literary entertainment " and the " Leipziger Zeitung ".

On October 17, 1866, he was appointed general manager of the Weimar court theater to succeed Franz von Dingelstedt . There he staged a. a. Adaptation of classic dramas such as Schiller's "Räuber", Grillparzer's "Sappho" and Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale" and "Romeo and Juliet". In 1870 he organized a Richard Wagner Week, in which four of Wagner's operas were performed. Under his directorship, both parts of Faust were performed for the first time on May 6 and 7, 1876 in an arrangement by Otto Devrient . In 1880, a total of seven plays by Schiller were performed in a Schiller cycle from May 27 to June 13 in Weimar. On the occasion of Liszt's 70th birthday, his oratorio "The Legend of Saint Elizabeth" was performed on the stage with texts by Otto Roquette .

Von Loën was a member of the Weimar Cooperative of German Stage Members, the Cooperative of Dramatic Authors and Composers, the German Stage Association and board member of the German Writers' Association, the Wagner Association and the Liszt Foundation. He was Vice President of the German Schiller Foundation and the Goethe Society and President of the German Shakespeare Society .

Honors

literature

  • Adolf Mirus: Freiherr August von Loën: A contribution to the history of the court theater in Weimar , Verlag Thelemann, 1891

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personal data
SURNAME Loën, August of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loën, August Friedrich Oger from (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court official, writer and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1887
Place of death Jena