Eduard Ichon (theater director)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eduard Ichon (born December 27, 1879 in Bremen , † January 19, 1943 in Bremen) was a German theater director , founder and director.

biography

Ichon, son of Theodor Ichon (born November 9, 1844 - September 13, 1917) and Marie Ichon , née Holler (* September 20, 1890 - May 5, 1923) and grandson of the wealthy entrepreneur Eduard Ichon , attended the old grammar school in Bremen. He studied history, literature and art history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München . In 1907 he received his doctorate from Erich Marcks in Munich. phil. and then completed his habilitation with a topic on Friedrich Hebbel . He wanted to aim for a scientific career.

Then around 1910 Ichon turned to practical theater work. Together with Johannes Wiegand , he planned and founded the Bremer Schauspielhaus in the same year, which was initially located in the converted Tonhalle (concert hall built in 1853, later modern ) on Neustadtswall in Neustadt . Wiegand was the first director, while Ichon worked as a director.

Grave of the Ichon family in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen

From 1912 to 1913, the two had a theater building built at the Ostertor in the city ​​center according to plans by architects August Abbehusen and Otto Blendermann , which today represents the core of the theater on Goetheplatz in Bremen. The house opened in 1913 with a performance of Oscar Wilde's A Woman Without Meaning .

Ichon staged many classic plays in new forms and modern problem plays and thus gained fame as a director. In 1920 Ichon founded the community theater , supported by the Goethebund and the Beamtenbund .

After Wiegand's death, Ichon took over the management of the entire theater from 1940 until his death in 1943. Ichon was buried in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen (grave location: V 497/498).

family

His son was the lawyer Dr. Ichon, who from 1950 had his law firm in the Villa Ichon at the Theater am Goetheplatz. His brother Dr. Theodor Ichon (born October 24, 1880 - † July 5, 1967) was a partner in the Ariadne real estate company .

In 1912 the Ichon family purchased an estate in Oberneuland, now partially a public park, known as Ichons Park and Landhaus Caesar-Ichon .

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gravestone of the Holler-Ichon family grave in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen, grave location V 497/498
personal data
SURNAME Ichon, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1943
Place of death Bremen