Emile Evrard

Emile Evrard (born January 20, 1882 in Brussels , † September 13, 1943 in Konstanz ) was a German singer , actor and theater director .

Evrard was born the son of the theater painter Hubert Evrard and was an actor and singer in Bremen from 1898 to 1900 . He then stayed in Gera until 1903 and between 1915 and 1924 he was engaged at the city ​​theater in Hildesheim . After he had been at the stages in Würzburg until 1925 , he received an offer from the Hamburg Thaliatheater , where he was engaged until 1932. From 1933 he worked in Harburg and in his final years in Konstanz .

From 1909 to 1910 Evrard headed the Thalia Theater in Bremen, a suburban theater in Bremen's Neustadt district, which at the time was also known as a cabaret stage. With the inclusion of more modern, demanding theater pieces in the repertoire - u. a. by L'Arronge , Sudermann and Dumas - a younger audience interested in literature was won over. In the summer of 1910, the neighboring Neustädter Tonhalle , also located on Neustadtswall, was converted into a theater and opened on August 13, 1910 as the Bremen theater . Evrard became managing director of the new theater, the teacher and theater critic Johannes Wiegand took over the artistic direction, the dramaturge was Dr. Eduard Ichon . Even before the Bremen theater moved to the new theater to be built on Goetheplatz (opened on August 15, 1913), Evrard left the company. On September 11, 1911, under the direction of Evrard, the Schiller Theater opened as a popular theater for the western suburbs of Bremen. In 1916 it was already called Schauburg (Schiller Theater) .

literature

• Wilhelm Kosch: Deutsches Theater-Lexikon: biographical and bibliographical manual, Volume 1, Klagenfurt and Vienna, 1953, 418.

swell

• German Stage Yearbook, 1915.
• German Stage Yearbook, 1916.

• Anniversary in the Bremen theater . In: Bremer Zeitung , January 25, 1935, p. 1.