Ernst Albert

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Ernst Albert around 1900
Portrait of Ernst Albert (1927) on a postcard hand-drawn by Heinrich Eduard Linde-Walther . The card is addressed exclusively with the cylinder typical of Albert and the addition Lübeck and was delivered.
The specimen of a wasp's nest created by him in a newspaper (1933) in the Museum am Dom

Ernst Albert (born May 21, 1859 in Cöthen , † November 2, 1936 in Lübeck ) was a German theater actor and biologist . Albert came to Lübeck in 1908 after having been part of the ensemble of the Ducal Court Theater in Altenburg for several years, where he had been awarded the title of court actor . From 1897 to 1898 he directed the first city ​​theater in Kiel .

In Lübeck, he mainly worked as a character comedian at the city ​​theater and at the same time worked as an entomologist for the Natural History Museum . For a time he was also director of the Hansa Theater . In addition, he appeared as a writer of humorous books and plays.

Ernst Albert, about whom numerous anecdotes exist, was one of the Lübeck city ​​originals of the 1920s. He was known as a cylinder man , as he almost always wore a cylinder , inside which he carried just trapped insects impaled on a cork sheet. The top hat was so typical of him that he would occasionally put it on the tram rails to ask the tram driver to wait a moment while he was shopping in a nearby shop. The captain Karl Ludwig Heidtmann (1914–1998) from Berkenthin had learned as a boy that Ernst Albert got into a bad mess during his apprenticeship and traveling years and was able to run away as a chimney sweep - capped with a cylinder. He then swore that he would only wear top hats for the rest of his life.

Although Ernst Albert deliberately presented himself as an operetta-like personality in Lübeck , he was regarded in specialist circles as a recognized entomologist who, among other things, was the first to document the sporadic occurrence of potentially malaria-transmitting species of mosquitoes in northern Germany.

Web links

Commons : Ernst Albert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • German Entomological Institute: work on morphological and taxonomic entomology . Volume 3/4 (1936), p. 65 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Anneliese Bodensohn: Albert, Ernst Eduard. In: Hans-Gert Roloff u. a. (Ed.): The German literature. Series VI: Die Deutsche Literatur from 1890 to 1990. Section A: Author's Lexicon, Volume 1, Delivery 6–9. frommann-holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2003, pp. 561–564 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Ludwig Benick : Ernst Albert †. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 78, number 45, edition of November 8, 1936, pp. 984–985.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Different year of birth 1853 at Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Wer ist's , Berlin 1935, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Entomologische Zeitschrift, Volume 50 (1936), p. 393 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Hans Schermer: The Travetal was his home: the biologist and pedagogue Ernst Schermer in the Lübeck river. History 1886–1955 (= publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Series B, Volume 15). M. Schmidt, Lübeck 1986, ISBN 3-7950-0453-5 , p. 74 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ^ Peter-Alexander Hanke and Bernd Gatermann: The painter Karl Gatermann d. Ä. - Leben und Werk , 2nd edition 2011, p. 400
personal data
SURNAME Albert, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albert, Ernst Eduard; Cylinder man (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist, theater actor and city original
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Coethen
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1936
Place of death Lübeck