Carl Dittmarsch (actor)
Carl Dittmarsch , also Karl Dittmarsch (* 1790 in Riga , † December 8, 1872 in Dresden ) was a German theater actor and director .
Life
Dittmarsch was an actor's child and his father in particular was a popular member of the Riga City Theater. He entered the stage for the first time as "Heinrich Seefeld" as early as 1806 on January 17th, in 1810 he took part in Königsberg, came to Stettin in 1811, to Rostock in 1812, where he stayed until 1814 and then to Dessau, where he worked until 1818 . From 1818-1820 we find him in Stuttgart, from 1820 to 1824 as one of the most popular members of the play and the opera at Breslau Municipal Theater and in 1832 he accepted a call to the Dresden Court Theater, after serving as a top director at the earlier four years City Theater Augsburg had worked .
Dittmarsch took a first position at the Dresden court theater and was considered a conscientious, industrious, and at the same time quite docile official who had no ambition but to carry out the orders and orders of his boss in the most punctual manner. Nevertheless, as Karl Gutzkow reports in his "Retrospects", he is said to have been the head of a conspiracy in the lap of the court theater and described him as the one who caused the director the greatest possible embarrassment through his machinations, so that the royal . Court theater often had to be closed. Robert Prölß , the well-known historiographer of the Dresden stage, who was very familiar with the circumstances of the stage, did not want to give any real faith to these accusations.
Dittmarsch initially played the subject of lovers and heroes and later moved on to father, character and humorous roles, the latter subject he held particularly in Dresden.
On January 17, 1856 he celebrated his 50th anniversary as an actor, on January 1, 1858 that of his 25 years of directing and in 1864 he retired because of his advanced age. He stayed in Dresden, where he lived completely withdrawn and died on December 8, 1872.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 203, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dittmarsch, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dittmarsch, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1872 |
| Place of death | Dresden |