Emil Drach
Emil Drach ( September 8, 1855 in Heidelberg - February 5, 1902 in Achern ) was a German theater actor , director , director and author .
Life
Drach first studied philosophy, but then decided to become an actor. Before that, however, he broadened his horizons by traveling for several years, which took him to France.
After being taught by Carl Weiser , he made his debut in Mainz in 1877. Soon afterwards Alexander Strakosch saw him and introduced the young, talented actor Heinrich Laube . Despite his 23 years of age, he had to play the hero father at the Vienna City Theater, as Laube declared him "born" for it, and a. the "Santos" in Uriel Acosta , the "Arkas" in Iphigenia , even the "King Lear". Since these attempts were all successful, he stayed busy in this area.
With the end of the Laube management in 1879, he left Vienna for Berlin. There he made his debut on November 8, 1879 as "Uriel Acosta". Initially busy as a heroic father and lover, later older, not always better colleagues were preferred, so that he saw himself hindered in his development.
In 1882 he therefore moved to Meiningen, where he played all hero roles, and also took part in the Meininger art trips .
He then worked for a short time at the Frankfurt City Theater and at the Berlin Theater until he was hired at the Munich Court Theater in 1883. In 1886 he went again to Frankfurt and again in 1889 to the Berlin theater, where he worked not only as an actor but also as a director.
From 1890 to 1893 he was at the Dresden court theater, also as head director of the theater. He went again to Munich and in 1897 to the Theater des Westens in Berlin. He left this at the same time as Ferdinand Bonn in 1898 to go to Munich for the third time as theater director.
Drach, who until then had primarily been active in classical drama, now turned to more modern stage production, which had not been maintained on the larger stages on which he had previously worked, and rented the "concert halls" for his "Münchnertheater" , where, as later at the Munich theater, he found ample opportunity to devote himself to modern drama in addition to French antics, with which he achieved great success.
In 1899 he went on tour without giving up his Munich domicile. During his stay in Vienna in 1900, he became so mentally ill that he had to be admitted to the Illenau insane asylum in Achern . His condition did not improve, and so he died there on February 5, 1902.
Drach also made some literary attempts, in 1889 he published three dramatic poems under the title Moira and in 1896 the tragedy of King Ulrich .
family
Emil Drach was the son of a railway administrator named Joseph Drach (1817–1873) from Karlsruhe and his wife Sophie Romann. He was married to the actress Anna Maria Quinz, the daughter of the steam mill director Matthias Quinz from Sappada and Anna Irene Stein. One of his sons was the linguist Erich Drach . Another son, Fritz Drach, lived as a bookseller and editor in Berlin. During the so-called Spartacus uprising in January 1919, he led the occupation of the Mosse Verlag.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 210 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Drach deutsche-biographie.de in German Biography
- ↑ Representation in the Berliner Tageblatt zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drach, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor, director and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 5, 1902 |
| Place of death | Achern |