Emil Palleske

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Emil Palleske

Emil Palleske (born January 5, 1823 in Tempelburg , Pomerania ; † October 28, 1880 in Thal near Eisenach ) was an actor , reciter and writer .

Life and works

Palleske spent his youth in Rügenwalde , Western Pomerania. He then studied philology and history at the universities of Berlin and Bonn and was already preparing for the acting profession during this time. He then received roles as hero and character actor at the theaters of Posen, Stettin and Oldenburg. In 1843 he became a member of the Fridericia Bonn fraternity .

From 1845 to 1851 Palleske was the second character actor at the court theater in Oldenburg . During this time he made friends with Anna Löhn-Siegel , Adolf Stahr and Eugen von Beaulieu-Marconnay . In 1851 he left the stage, apparently because he was not a very good actor, and went to Berlin. By the end of the 1840s he had become a nationally known drama reader. He later lived in Arnstadt and Weimar and then in the seaside resort of Thal near Eisenach and soon became an internationally known lecturer who, as a reciter, went on extensive lecture tours at home and abroad (around three thousand evenings). His repertoire included works by Sophocles , Shakespeare , the German classics and also by Fritz Reuter .

Palleske wrote three dramas: Achilles (1847), King Monmouth (1853) and Oliver Cromwell (1857) and wrote poems (e.g. Mit dem Strom , Schiffers Lieb , Hannibal ). He was devoted to the ideals of the revolution of 1848 and with his drama Achilles had deliberately chosen a historical plot from a long time ago so as not to snub the court in Oldenburg during the troubled times. The first performance of the play on November 11, 1847 at the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Oldenburg was rewarded with appreciative applause from the audience. His two-volume book Schiller's Life and Works (1858/1859), which was translated into English as early as 1860, has been published very often and is still widely read today . In 1879 he published the memoirs of Charlotte von Kalb , and in 1880 he published the non-fiction book The Art of Lecture , in which he incorporated his own experiences as a reader.

He was already married to Marie Saro during his time in Oldenburg and lost a son in the war in 1870 who died of an infection as a volunteer in a military hospital in Metz (→ Metz Fortress ). One daughter was married to the playwright Carl Friedrich Müller-Palleske , another to the painter Olof Winkler . Palleske was often musically gifted, played the piano and painted (like his wife), but later gave up. He was friends with Gottfried Keller , whom he also visited in Switzerland. Emil Palleske's article appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on September 30, 1875 .

Emil Palleske's estate is in the Berlin State Library (Estates GDR 3 , No. 656).

Works

  • Achilles . A drama. Printed as a manuscript (performed for the first time at the grand-ducal court theater in Oldenburg on November 11, 1847). Oldenburg. 1847. 48 pp.
  • King Monmouth . Berlin. 1853.
  • About Griepenkerl 's 'Robespierre'. 1856.
  • Oliver Cromwell . Berlin. 1857.
  • Schiller's life and works. Berlin. 1858/1859, (English edition: Schiller's Life and Works , translated by Lady Wallace, London 1860, ISBN 1-4325-5131-0 ).
  • Charlotte. (For the friends of the eternal ones.) Commemorative sheets from Charlotte von Kalb. Stuttgart. 1879.
  • The art of speaking. Stuttgart. 1880.
  • The matron of Ephesus. Reclam Publishing House. Leipzig. 1926.

literature

  • R. Dechant: The tragic in Palleske's ‹Cromwell› and its relationship to the development of German tragedy . Dissertation, Munich 1954.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 534-535.
  • Karl Veit Riedel : Palleske, Emil. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 551-552 ( online ).
  • Joseph Kürschner:  Palleske, Emil . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 99 f.
  • Maximilian Weller: Emil Palleske 1823-1880. In: Pommersche Lebensbilder IV (W. Menn, ed.), Cologne / Graz 1966, pp. 372–385.
  • Maximilian Weller: The Five Great Drama Readers - On the Cultural History of the German Poetry Lecture from 1800 - 1880 , Würzburg-Aumühle 1939 ("Das Nationaltheater". Series of publications by the Theater Studies Institute of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Vol. III) [Tieck, Schall, Holtei , Immermann, Palleske]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Richarz: List of members of the Fridericia fraternity in Bonn (February 18, 1843 to autumn 1847) as well as the Arminia fraternity in Bonn (1847 to 1849) and the fraternity association Germania in Bonn (1843 to 1849). Bonn 1894, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Schiller's life and works

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personal data
SURNAME Palleske, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Tempelburg , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1880
Place of death Thal