Eduard Schütz (actor)

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Theater ticket for the world premiere of Goethe's “Faust” in the Braunschweiger Hof-Theater on January 19, 1829.

Johann Nikolaus Eduard Schütz (born August 16, 1799 as Johann Erdmann Nicolaus Schütze in the Altes Lande near Hamburg , † May 2, 1868 in Braunschweig ) was a German actor and director of the Braunschweig court theater . In 1829 he was the first to perform in Faust .

Life

Eduard Schütz, the son of an impoverished farmer , grew up in Hamburg. He took part in the Napoleonic Wars as a young soldier. During his time as a soldier he discovered his acting talent and after the end of the war he joined a lover's theater in Hamburg. He made his debut in 1818 at the Steinstrasse Theater there. Engagements in Detmold and Magdeburg (1819-21) followed. There the theater director Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann saw him , who signed him to the Braunschweig National Theater . Schütz first stepped onto the Braunschweig stage on August 26, 1821 as Don Carlos , on which he played with interruptions until 1853. From 1829 to 1831 he was engaged in Leipzig and from 1854 to 1856 in Wiesbaden.

The first Faust actor

Schütz played the title role at the premiere of Goethe's Faust on January 19, 1829 in Braunschweig. In this version, edited by Klingemann, Gretchen was played by Wilhelmine Berger . Charlotte Sophie Höffert , Schütz's third wife, took on this role in later performances . Heinrich Marr gave the Mephisto .

On March 22, 1853, Schütz resigned as Wallenstein as a performing artist, before he returned from Wiesbaden in 1856 and worked as artistic director of the Braunschweiger Hoftheater. He called numerous new artists to the ensemble. Schütz was also active as a writer and wrote prologues, poems, dramatic treatises and stage works. Schütz was the uncle of the travel writer Friedrich Gerstäcker , who spent his youth with him. In his novel " Im Eckfenster " published in 1872, Gerstäcker created a literary monument for him with the figure of the theater director Süssmeier. Eduard Schütz died in Braunschweig in 1868.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Nicolaus Eduard Schütz. In: Biographical pocket book of German stage artists. Volume 2, Fischer & Fuchs, Leipzig 1837, pp. 1–32 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ City Chronicle of Braunschweig 1840 to 1859
  3. ^ Paul Alfred Merbach: From the letters Gottlob Wiedebeins . In: Yearbook of the history association for the Duchy of Braunschweig . 1912, p. 56, PDF file, scan from the Braunschweig University Library
  4. ^ City of Braunschweig (ed.): 300 years of theater in Braunschweig 1690–1990. Meyer, Braunschweig 1990, ISBN 3-926701-11-0 , p. 358.
  5. ^ Richard Daunicht: August Klingemann's production of Goethe's "Faust" 1st part. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch. Volume 61, 1980, self-published by the Braunschweigischen Geschichtsverein , pp. 55–73, especially p. 58.
  6. ↑ Information on Friedrich Gerstäcker's biography
personal data
SURNAME Schütz, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schütz, Johann Nikolaus Eduard (full name); Schütze, Johann Erdmann Nicolaus (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Old country
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1868
Place of death Braunschweig