Eduard Gnauth

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Eduard Gnauth.

Eduard Gnauth (born July 28, 1788 in Dresden , † March 19, 1859 Stuttgart ) was a German theater actor.

Life

Karl Eduard Gnauth was born on July 28, 1788 in Dresden as the son of the electoral rider Karl Gnauth († 1814). The father's brother was Karl Christoph Gnauth (1784–1845), who from 1818 worked as a cloakroom manager at the court theater in Stuttgart.

Gnauth initially worked as an actor in Braunschweig, Hanover and Nuremberg. From 1815 to 1856 he was a court actor at the Stuttgart court theater, where he was an esteemed actor of character and comic roles.

In an obituary for Gnauth's death it was said: “Like so many others of his class, he was completely remote from any real education. … Our excellent Gnauth was still one of those who observed more than thought. He had a skilled talent at his side. ... His achievement was always a full, honest and true likeness, the most precise photograph of some unknown original, which roamed around the world and which in the given circumstances surely proceeded in such a way, spoke, stood out. "In 1829 he caused a sensation through the mistreatment of a theater critic he disliked.

Eduard Gnauth died on March 19, 1859 at the age of 70 in Stuttgart. His wife survived him by 6 years and died on December 14, 1865 at the age of 64.

  • Eduard Gnauth as Krispin Kakadu in the "Sisters of Prague".

  • Ludwig Storch.

  • August Wilhelm Maurer.

Critic abuse

An act of "raw self-help" by actors from the Stuttgart court theater against an unpopular critic caused a sensation in 1829. Ludwig Storch , “who was living in Stuttgart as a man of letters at the time, had aroused the ire of Gnauth and Maurer with a sharp criticism of a performance of 'Donna Diana'. They attacked him in his apartment, and while Maurer kept watch at the door, Gnauth carried out the criminal judgment with an 'ox pizzle'. "

On May 7, 1829, the incident was heard before the Criminal Senate of the Court for the Neckar District in Esslingen. The court punished Eduard Gnauth to 3 months' arrest at the Hohenasperg fortress "for literal and factual injuries against Doctor Ludwig Storch made difficult by breach of the peace house". August Wilhelm Maurer was arrested for 6 weeks "for literal injuries against Doctor Storch and intellectual assistance in the mistreatment committed by Gnauth".

family

Gnauth was married to Auguste Weinstatter († 1849) for the first time. The two sons from this marriage, Carl Gnauth and Eduard Gnauth, embarked on a career in theater like their father. After the divorce of his first marriage, Gnauth married Charlotte Fossetta (1801-1865) in 1829, the illegitimate daughter of the court actress of the same name, Charlotte Fossetta . Two children from the marriage died shortly after or at birth.

Carl Gnauth

Carl Gnauth (1813-1853) was employed at the Hoftheater Stuttgart in 1830 as an extraordinary member of the singing choir, in 1833 he began an eleven-year journey as a singer and actor through numerous German and foreign theaters, before being engaged as a chorister in 1844 and later as an actor at the Hoftheater Stuttgart has been. He died unmarried at the age of only 40.

Eduard Gnauth junior

Eduard Gnauth junior (1822–1854) attended the agricultural teaching, experimental and model institute in Stuttgart-Hohenheim for a year at the age of 16, but then turned to the art of acting. From 1839 he played on traveling stages and from 1842 also on permanent theaters in Württemberg and Bavaria, in 1852 in Königsberg and in 1854 in Riga, where he died at the age of 32. In 1842 and 1844 he was engaged to guest performances at the Hoftheater Stuttgart, but was refused a permanent position. In 1845 he married the actress Wilhelmine Heuberger in Ludwigsburg, who gave him three children.

literature

  • Carl Grüneisen: Words at the grave of Mr. Eduard Gnauth Königl. Court actor a. D., born in Dresden on July 28, 1788, died in Stuttgart on March 19, 1859. Stuttgart: Lanz, 1859.
  • Friedrich Knöpp: Gnauth, Feodor. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie, Volume 6, 1964, pages 483-484, online . - Information on Karl Christoph Gnauth.
  • Rudolf Krauss: The Stuttgart court theater from the oldest times to the present. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1908, page 131, 132, 168, 175, 178, 235.
  • Nekrolog [Eduard Gnauth junior]. In: Das Inland: a weekly for the daily history Liv-, Esth- u. Kurlands, Volume 20, 1855, Column 3, pdf .
  • Waltraud Pfäfflin; Friedrich Pfäfflin: The graves of the poets on the Stuttgart Hoppenlau cemetery. With an essay by Udo Dickenberger. Stuttgart 2015, pages 384–385.
  • Penal knowledge against the court actors Eduard Gnauth and August Maurer in Stuttgart. In: Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Württemberg, number 23, June 6, 1829, page 243, pdf .
  • Moritz Rudolph (editor): Riga Theater and Tonkünstler Lexicon including the history of the Riga theater and the musical society. Riga: Kymmel, 1890, page 74, pdf .
  • State Archives Ludwigsburg, E 18 II Bü 351, Eduard Gnauth , E 18 II Bü 352, Eduard Gnauth junior , E 18 II Bü 353, Karl Gnauth .
  • His Gnauth. In: Wilhelm Waiblinger: Collected works. Volume 6. Hamburg: Heubel, 1839, pages 283-285, pdf .
  • From Stuttgart, March 22nd. Obituary. In: Wiener Zeitung, March 26, 1859, page 277, pdf .

Web links

Commons : Eduard Gnauth  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

  1. ↑ #Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg 1856 .
  2. ↑ # Knöpp 1964 .
  3. ↑ #Wiener Newspaper 1859 .
  4. ↑ # Krauss 1908 , page 178.
  5. ↑ Government Gazette 1829 .
  6. ↑ #Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg , Eduard Gnauth.
  7. ↑ #Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg , Karl Gnauth.
  8. ↑ obituary in 1855 , #Rudolph 1890 , #Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg , Eduard Gnauth junior.
personal data
SURNAME Gnauth, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1859