Emil Drenker

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Emil Drenker (born July 15, 1839 in Goldap , East Prussia , † February 19, 1887 in Berlin ) was a German theater agent.

Life

Drenker attended the Kgl. Lyck High School . After graduating from high school , he enrolled at the Albertus University in Königsberg . Like many of his schoolmates, he became active in the Corps Masovia in the summer semester of 1858 . From 1861 he worked as a private tutor in the Königsberg administrative district .

He went to Berlin and opened an international theater business bureau in Berlin and Vienna . On the one hand, it brokered all guest performances and engagements in Germany and abroad; on the other hand it dealt with acting texts and music . The agency had partners in France , England , Italy and North America . In the imperial capital it became the largest and most influential in the German Empire . Her organ for theater, art and literature was the Theater Figaro , which Drenker edited and published . Like many others, it reflected the particular popularity of theater among the bourgeoisie . The German Schiller Foundation valued Drenker. Ludolf Waldmann (1840–1919), composer of the light muse , dedicated the song collection op. 51 to Drenker. The old Germans drank too . Drenker died at the age of 48.

In 1898, eleven years after his death, the Jewish theater agent Berthold Auerbach joined the Emil Drenker agency for 36 years .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Herrlein , Amella Mai (ed.): Directory of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 2005 . Potsdam 2006
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 89/576
  3. ^ Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Königsberg, Vol. 51
  4. ^ German stage almanac
  5. ↑ Hofmeister XIX (2008)
  6. ↑ Stefanie Watzka (2012)
  7. ↑ Heilbronn Kleist sheets
  8. ↑ Waldmann (GoogleBooks)
  9. ^ Germanic Archives
personal data
SURNAME Drenker, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater agent in Berlin and Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldap , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1887
Place of death Berlin