Christian Eckelmann

Christian Eckelmann ( July 21, 1866 in Bremen - after 1942) was a German theater actor and playwright .

Life

Eckelmann, the son of a building contractor, first went to the USA after he could not get his mother's consent to embark on a stage career, and it was only after three and a half years in New York that he was able to realize his plan. He took lessons from Heinrich Kreuzkamp and entered the stage for the first time as a volunteer in Bremen in 1895. Then he came to the Tivolitheater, then back to the Stadttheater, then to the Odeontheater in Hanover, Stadttheater in Lübeck, at the Stralsund Theater and in Lodz, worked in New York and toured the capitals of North America under the direction of Monroe H. Rosenfeld . Thereupon he was engaged at the city theater in Aachen, in Riga, at the court theater in Dresden and in 1899 joined the association of the court theater in Mannheim.

In later years, under the pseudonym Leo Kastner , he mainly wrote numerous stage plays and libretti, including The Golden Love First Time, Under the Flowering Linden Tree and The Toboggan Gypsy . In 1942 his memoirs appeared under the title Vom Nachtwächter zur Bühne. The German Stage Yearbook 1942 commemorated him on the occasion of his 75th birthday, but in the entry for August 21, 1941.

Works

• The toboggan gypsy . Operetta. Music Josef Snaga . Premiere 1910 Berlin
• The little student . Operetta (together with Alfred Möller ). Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere 1926 Szczecin
• Girls you love . A game of youth and lust for life (operetta; together with Alfred Möller). Music: Leon Jessel. Premiere 1927 Hamburg

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 219, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, first volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953, p. 371.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Stage Yearbook, FA Günther & Sohn A.-G., 1942 p. 105.

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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