Dagobert Neuffer

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Dagobert Neuffer (originally Neumann ; born May 17, 1851 in Puchó , Hungary (today: Serbia ), † November 12, 1939 in Weimar ) was a German theater actor , director and director of Hungarian origin. He carried the title of "Grand Ducal Court Actor".

Life

Neuffer was born in a village near Großbetschkerek in the Banat as the eldest son of the Jewish cantor and teacher Armin Neumann and his wife Rosalie, nee. Middle, born. At the age of 17 he left his parents' house for Vienna . He attended the Kirschner Theater Academy there and was trained by Alexander Strakosch . In 1871 he made his debut in Regensburg, Bavaria. Further stations took him via Preßburg and Graz to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and the Hoftheater in Berlin and to Stuttgart. At the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich he once had a performance in front of Ludwig II , King of Bavaria. In 1882 he came to the Bohemian Prague, where he in the lead role as "Schiller" in the Karl students of Heinrich Laube shone. A little later, however, he fell out with the director and was dismissed. Although he successfully conducted a contract compliance process, he did not continue his work in Prague.

Former villa of the Neuffer-Stavenhagen families in Weimar (2014)

In 1884 he was engaged at the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Weimar for three years . His first role was that of "Torquato Tasso" in Goethe's play of the same name . He was able to gain reputation as a hero and lover actor, such as "Romeo" in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and as "Don Carlos" in Schiller's Don Karlos . In 1888 he played the "Marquis de Villemer" in the comedy Sands of the same name . In 1890 he took on the role of " Hamlet " (Shakespeare) and a year later that of "Christoph Marlow" ( von Wildenbruch ) in the funeral plays of the same name. In 1891 he was finally allowed to fill the leading role in Shakespeare's Othello . His main roles continued to include "Posa", "Ferdinand", "Mortimer", "Sansnom", "Sittig", "Melchthal", "Temple Lord", "Richard II.", "Clavigo", "Carl IX.", " Gringoire ”,“ Lothar ”and“ Menonite ”. During August von Loën's directorship , he applied for a lifelong engagement. His successor, Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf , only accepted long-term contracts. There were also rivalries with director Paul Brock .

In 1895 he took over the management of the city and summer theater Metz in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and the Thaliatheater Saarbrücken . He also worked as a senior director. Despite his managerial functions, he insisted on continuing to appear as an actor ("Marquis Posa", "Marc Anton", "Hamlet" and "Don Carlos"). In 1907 he left the house and moved back to Weimar. While he lived with his parents-in-law in his active acting days in the Villa Stavenhagen ( Kurthstraße 18), the Neufferts were the sole owners of the property from 1906.

Neuffer was married to the writer Hildegard Neuffer-Stavenhagen (1866–1939) from 1891 and had four children. He was thus a brother-in-law of the chamber singer Agnes Stavenhagen . His daughter Hilde (later Rawson) was her first marriage to the violin virtuoso Max Strub . Neuffer was one of Rudolf Steiner's artist friends ; he and his wife were interested in anthroposophy . Steiner was the godfather of his son Harald. His sons died in World War I , Hans-Armin († 1915) in the winter battle in Champagne and Harald († 1917) on the Eastern Front .

Awards

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? Our contemporaries . 4th edition, published by HA Ludwig Degener, Leipzig 1909.
  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century . List, Leipzig 1903.
  • Wilhelm Kosch: German Theater Lexicon . Biographical and bibliographical manual . Volume 2: Hurka - Pallenberg . De Gruyter, Berlin 1960.
  • Elgin Strub: My grandparents, Hildegard Neuffer-Stavenhagen, writer, and Dagobert Neuffer, grand ducal actor in Weimar. In: Ders .: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , pp. 29-54.

Web links

Commons : Dagobert Neuffer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Kohlweyer: Agnes Stavenhagen: Weimar Prima donna between Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss . wtv, Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-937939-01-8 , p. 288.
  2. ^ Elgin Strub: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , pp. 30f.
  3. ^ Elgin Strub: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , p. 32.
  4. ^ Elgin Strub: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , p. 30.
  5. ^ Elgin Strub: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , p. 33.
  6. ^ Elgin Strub: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , pp. 33f.
  7. ^ Elgin Strub: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , pp. 35f.
  8. ^ Elgin Strub: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , p. 38.
  9. ^ Gerhard Kohlweyer: Agnes Stavenhagen: Weimar Prima donna between Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss . wtv, Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-937939-01-8 , p. 87.
  10. ^ Elgin Strub: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , p. 43.
  11. ^ Peter Selg : Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work . Volume 2: ( 1890-1900) - Weimar and Berlin . SteinerBooks, Great Barrington 2014, ISBN 978-1-62148-086-0 .
  12. ^ Elgin Strub: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , p. 47.
personal data
SURNAME Neuffer, Dagobert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann, Dagobert (original name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor, director and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Puchó , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1939
Place of death Weimar