Daniel Schütte

Daniel Schütte (born April 6, 1763 in Bremen , † March 14, 1850 in Bremen) was a German lawyer and theater manager in Bremen and court advisor in Schwarzburg-Sondershausen .

biography

Schütte was the son of his parents' husband, Franz Schütte, and came from a long-established Bremen family. He was interested in music and theater at a young age , but initially studied law in Göttingen . After receiving his doctorate , he made extensive trips in 1784/85, which took him to Kassel, Weimar, Frankfurt, Mannheim, Munich and Vienna. He made the acquaintance of playwrights like Iffland and Schiller and composers like Mozart and Haydn .

The city theater on the "Junkernbastion", acquired by Schütte in 1797

In 1785 he settled in Bremen as a lawyer . Here he came in contact with in 1790 Adolph Freiherr Knigge and he promoted amateur theater . As early as 1788, Schütte had campaigned to bring Gustav Friedrich Großmann's drama troupe to Bremen for guest performances. For this purpose, a first Bremen city theater was finally built in 1792 on the "Junkernbastion" Am Wall with financial support from wealthy citizens , in which Großmann appeared in the following years. In 1797, after Großmann's death, Schütte took over the theater and leased it at times at a loss. From 1810 he again ran the theater personally and, in addition to theater and opera performances, also held concerts here. In 1829 he sold the theater to CF Gütschow, called "Bethmann".

From 1839 Schütte was a member of a theater association with the aim of founding a new, larger theater in Bremen. However , he distanced himself from the second Bremen city theater , which was then built in 1843 at the “Bischofsnadelbastion” (later known as “Theaterberg”) for unknown reasons.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Wiltrud Ulrike Drechsel, Heide Gerstenberger , Christian Marzahn: Contributions to the social history of Bremen. Book 10: Fine Arts and their Audiences in the 18th and 19th Centuries . University of Bremen, ISBN 3-88722-149-4 .