Eduard Schacht

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Eduardschacht (* 15. August 1864 in Wandsbek , † 6. November 1893 in Hannover ) was a German theater - actors and - pieces - Schreiber .

Life

Eduard Schacht turned to the stage as a 20-year-old and continued his autodidactic training. He was a member of the German Stage Members' Cooperative with membership number 8562. From 1884 he played roles as a youthful hero and lover and appeared on stages in Heidelberg and Strasbourg , at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg as well as in Poznan and Königsberg . From 1891 he played at the Royal Theater in Hanover. There were also guest appearances in theaters in other cities.

Schacht was married to the actress Mathilde Schacht , née Quendt († 1941), with whom he had several children. When he died in Hanover at the age of only 29, he left behind a widow and underage half-orphans, including his son Roland Schacht and his son Walter Schacht, who was only a few weeks old .

The archive of the Akademie der Künste holds part of the estate of Eduard and his son Roland Schacht.

Works

Schacht wrote the following stage plays that were already successfully performed during his lifetime:

  • Dangerous Girls (comedy; 1888)
  • The aunt on travels (comedy; 1889)
  • The Count's Crown (comedy; 1891)
  • Fear of death. (Schwank; 1892)
  • Snowed in. (Comedy; 1893)
  • White slaves . (Drama; 1893)

literature

  • Schacht, Eduard. In: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Tape. 6, 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, p. 126 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Theatergeschichtliches Jahr- und Adressebuch 1895, p. 169; Preview via Google Books or as a full PDF document
  2. ↑ Obituary for Mathilde Schacht in the Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1943. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  3. ↑ Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? , 1935, p. 1362; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Schacht, Eduard and Roland in the estate database of the archive of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Schacht, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor and play writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Wandsbek
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1893
Place of death Hanover