Carl von Ledebur (theater director)

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Carl Freiherr von Ledebur (1908)

Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Heinrich Freiherr von Ledebur , also Karl (born February 13, 1840 in Berlin , † November 4, 1913 in Schwerin ) was a German theater director .

Life

origin

Carl von Ledebur came from the old Westphalian noble family von Ledebur and was the son of the officer and writer Carl von Ledebur and his wife Sophie, nee. von Löschebrandt (1807–1888).

Career

He was educated in the Prussian cadet corps , initially also started an officer career and on May 8, 1858 , joined the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot as an ensign . Karl Frhr. v. Ledebur II (to distinguish it from his father) was appointed second lieutenant here on October 13, 1859 . On July 1, 1860, he was transferred to the 3rd Guard Uhlan Regiment and was promoted to Prime Lieutenant on October 30, 1866.

Ledebur, who also appeared as a composer of various songs and marches, was appointed artistic director of the court theater in Wiesbaden at the beginning of May 1869 . Initially on leave from officer's service, he was granted leave on June 18, 1870.

With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War , however, he was reactivated shortly afterwards and became lieutenant in the infantry regiment "Count Tauentzien von Wittenberg" (3rd Brandenburg) No. 20 . After the war he moved to Leipzig , where he studied and at the same time became director of the cooperative of dramatic authors and composers . On leave again, he was finally granted his retirement on March 12, 1874, with a pension and the prospect of employment in civil service .

From 1874 to 1882 he worked as a theater director in Riga for nine years .

Theater in Schwerin

From 1883 until his death in 1913, he was the successor to Alfred von Wolhaben, general director of the grand ducal court theater in Schwerin and the court orchestra ; During his tenure in 1886 the new theater building was opened in the Old Garden .

Ledebur cultivated Richard Wagner's work with premieres of Götterdämmerung , Rheingold and Tristan und Isolde in Schwerin . On January 6, 1893, he performed Tchaikovsky's opera Jolanthe in Schwerin, three days after the German premiere in Hamburg and only 19 days after its world premiere in St. Petersburg .

In 1899 he came to Berlin with the ensemble for a guest performance and in 1908 to Prague .

Since 1885 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . In 1905 he was vice-president of the German Stage Association .

family

Since November 10, 1865 he was married to Elisabeth, b. von Hobe (born May 20, 1842 in Dyrotz ( Wustermark )), a daughter of August von Hobe ; However, she died on August 25, 1866. This first marriage came from the son Arthur von Ledebur (1866-1945), who also became an officer and was most recently major general .

Since July 14, 1874, he was married to the actress Josephine, b. Birnbaum (born June 13, 1842 in Kassel, † September 28, 1907 in Schwerin). From 1858 to 1860 she was a young lover at the court theater in Stuttgart; worked in Prague from 1860 to 1864, then in Berlin and Hamburg, from 1867 to 1870 in Graz and from 1870 to 1874 in Leipzig. The second marriage had daughters Margaretha (* 1876 in Riga) and Elsa (* 1877 in Riga).

The family lived in Ostorf in the Villa Freya .

Awards

Fonts

  • (Ed.) King Friedrich I of Prussia. Contributions to the history of a court, as well as the sciences, arts and state administration of that time. Leipzig 1878 (based on notes from his father) ( digitized version )
  • From my diary. A contribution to the history of the Schwerin court theater 1883-1897. Schwerin: Herberger 1897 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5733 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto von Lüdinghausen called Wolff: History of the Royal Prussian 2nd Guard Regiment on Foot, 1813-1882. Berlin: Mittler & Sohn 1882, p. 542 No. 383
  2. ^ Otto Weddigen : History of the royal theater in Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden: Schnegelberger 1894, p. 39
  3. ^ Otto Weddigen : History of the royal theater in Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden: Schnegelberger 1894, p. 39
  4. ^ Military weekly paper 59 (1874), p. 233
  5. ^ Karl von Ledebur on Tchaikovsky Research , accessed June 9, 2016
  6. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5732 .
  7. ^ New theater almanac: Theater history year and address book. 10 (1899), p. 486
  8. ↑ Orders and their arrangement according to the Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Calendar 1908, p. 73
  9. ↑ Order of St. John Journal: Official Monthly Journal of the Bailey Brandenburg 41 (1900), p 158
personal data
SURNAME Ledebur, Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ledebur, Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Heinrich von (full name); Ledebur, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1913
Place of death Schwerin