Emil Hecht (actor)

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Emil Hecht (born October 31, 1857 in Breslau , † April 14, 1916 in Mannheim ) was a German theater actor and director.

Life

Emil Hecht was a son of the particular Julius Hecht and Rosalie Berliner. His theater career began in Liegnitz in 1875 with small roles and choir appearances. From 1877 he was engaged at the Carl-Schultze-Theater in Hamburg . Further stations were Strasbourg , Berlin and Mainz .

From 1883 to 1893, Hecht was Carl Wilhelm Büller's successor and a member of the Royal Court Theater in Kassel . He then moved to the Grand Ducal Court and National Theater in Mannheim, which he left again in 1897 to move back to Berlin, where he worked first at the Berlin and then at the Goethe Theater before returning to Mannheim in 1899.

During his time in Kassel, 1889, he married Auguste Sophie Clara Peterseim. The marriage was divorced in 1902 before the Grand Ducal Regional Court in Mannheim. Hecht died at the age of 59.

Hecht was considered to be "an experienced representative of comic roles".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ludwig Eisenberg , Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , Leipzig 1903, p. 406 f. ( Digitized version )
  2. ^ Christiane Bernsdorff-Engelbrecht: Theater in Kassel . Bärenreiter, 1959, p. 155 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  3. ↑ a b Hessenland 8, April 1916, p. 128
  4. ↑ Till van Rahden: Juden und other Breslauer , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000, ISBN 978-3-525-35732-3 , p. 162 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  5. ↑ Emil Hecht on www.online-ofb.de
  6. ^ Wilhelm Bennecke: The court theater in Kassel from 1814 to the present . C. Vietor, 1906 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
personal data
SURNAME Pike, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1916
Place of death Mannheim