Carl Schultze (actor)

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Carl Schultze (born June 1, 1829 in Hamburg , † December 14, 1912 in Wandsbek ) was a German actor and theater director .

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Carl Schultze's father, who grew up near the horse market , worked as an upholsterer. As he said himself, as a teenager he considered taking up this profession as well. On the other hand, he was interested in comedy. In 1849 he joined a hiking group with whom he visited northwest German cities and villages. In 1853 he came back to St. Pauli . Here he initially played at today's St. Pauli Theater under the direction of Theodor Damm. Around 1858 he worked as an independent innkeeper in the "Joachimsthal", which was located in the western area of ​​today's Reeperbahn . In 1860 he opened the “St. Pauli Tivoli and Volksgarten ”. Schultze gradually turned it into a theater that had been called the Carl-Schultze-Theater since 1863 . In 1864 he was able to offer year-round demonstrations for the first time in a new winter-proof building.

With his repertoire, Schultze addressed the social and political changes in current affairs: With the Hamburg citizenship, the Hamburg bourgeoisie received an elected representative for the first time and the lifted gate lock spurred cultural life on St. Pauli. On the other hand, the city lost its sovereignty with the North German Confederation and the later establishment of an empire . Schultze responded with a Low German program that dealt with medium-sized Hamburg. It offered successful parodies of operas that could be seen at the Hamburg City Theater . These included Linorah by Johann Peter Lyser , Louis Schöbel's Faust and Margarethe from 1862 or, four years later, Die Afrikanerin by Giacomo Meyerbeer .

Tombstone Carl Schultze,
Ohlsdorf Cemetery

The plays performed in the theater also addressed current local issues. These included before and after the freedom of trade for Heinrich Volgemann and Im Gängeviertel . Both works were written under the pseudonym "JE Mand" and performed in 1865. Other pieces by Louis Schöbel with local references included Politischer Nonsense or Hannes Butje and Fritze Fischmarkt in the Hôtel for German Unity from 1866. Fritze Fischmarkt symbolized Otto von Bismarck . The house servant Hannes Buttje was a sarcastic and humorous personality who appeared in various plays in the theater. For a short time, Schultze was able to revive the Hamburger Volksstück. It all started with the Hamburg pills in 1870 , developed by Louis Schindler and Johann Dietrich F. Brünner based on a template from Vienna. The most important pieces came from Julius Stinde , who wrote Die Nachtigall aus dem Bäckergang in 1871 , A Hamburg Cooker in 1872 and Hamburger Leiden a year later . The most famous actors in the ensemble were Lotte Mende and Heinrich Kinder . Otto Schreyer and Hermann Hirschel wrote other successful pieces , including Ein Hamburger Nestkücken from 1880, Hamburg an der Alster (1882) and Reellität . All of the plays dealt with the petty bourgeoisie struggling with the rebellious youth.

In 1874, Schultze and his ensemble went on a major tour of Germany and Vienna . Felix Hesse took over the lease of the theater in St. Pauli on October 6, 1874 . Schultze and his actors were rarely seen here: appearances followed in the winter months of 1879 and 1880 and for the last time from 1881 to 1883.

The grave of Carl Schultze, who died in 1912, is in the Ohlsdorf cemetery , grid square E 13 (south of
Chapel 4).

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SURNAME Schultze, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1912
Place of death Wandsbek