Carl Hagemann (General Manager)

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Christian Carl Hagemann (born September 22, 1871 in Harburg , † December 24, 1945 in Wiesbaden ) was a German theater director and theater scholar .

Photo by Arnold Mocsigay (1911)

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Carl Hagemann was the son of the architect and bricklayer Carl Hagemann (1843-1916) and his wife Meta (1850-1925). During his studies in 1891 he became a member of the Germania Hanover fraternity . He finished his studies in civil engineering at the TH Hannover after passing the preliminary examination and then studied theater studies at universities in Rostock, as the oldest student of Max Herrmann in Berlin and later in Heidelberg. In 1900 he received his doctorate there on the "history of the theater slip". phil and from 1901 worked as an editor for the Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung . In 1906 he took over the management of the Mannheim National Theater , which he successfully ran. He took up influences from Max Reinhardt in the theater and from Hans Gregor in the field of opera . In 1910 he succeeded Alfred von Berger as artistic director of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg , where he encountered complicated structures: Heinrich Antoine-Feill , as chairman of the supervisory board of the Schauspielhaus, determined the artistic direction, but left the economic risk to the tenant and deputy director Ernst Koehne. There were also four acting lawyers who had a say.

Hagemann successfully presented modern pieces by August Strindberg and premieres by Frank Wedekind and well-known works by Arthur Schnitzler at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus . He first experienced criticism and protests for the neo-romantic dramas by Herbert Eulenberg and in 1911 for the dramatic world premiere of "Michel Michael" by Richard Dehmel . Hagemann also received negative reviews for his efforts to reform the design of the stage sets: instead of historicist backdrops, he used stylizing elements that were supposed to reflect the content of the pieces with their color design and set appropriate lighting. With this he coined the term “style stage”. Hagemann worked with visual artists, which was new for the theater. The first such production was Turandot by Karl Gustav Vollmoeller in 1912, based on the version by Carlo Gozzi with the design of the stage set by Ralf Voltmer.

In Hamburg, Hagemann did not understand how to form a unit from the actors he had hired, such as Maria Orska and Hermann Wlach, and the artists from the time of Alfred von Berger, and found little approval from the audience. Due to falling income and rising costs, the supervisory board of the Aktiengesellschaft Deutsches Schauspielhaus let its contract expire after two years. Hagemann went on a trip around the world in 1913 and returned to the Mannheim National Theater in 1915. In 1920 he moved to Wiesbaden as artistic director and in 1930 took on a teaching position at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in the department of theater studies. He also took on assignments as a freelance director.

After the Second World War , Hagemann, who died at the end of 1945, helped rebuild the theater landscape in Wiesbaden.

Fonts

  • Stage and world. Experiences and considerations of a theater director . The Griffin, Wiesbaden 1948.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Hans Knudsen:  Hagemann, Christian Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 468 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Michaela Giesing: Hagemann, Carl . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 151 .
  3. ^ Michaela Giesing: Hagemann, Carl . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 152 .
  4. ^ Michaela Giesing: Hagemann, Carl . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 151-152 .
personal data
SURNAME Hagemann, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagemann, Christian Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Harburg
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1945
Place of death Wiesbaden