Ernst Drucker
Ernst Drucker (born October 23, 1855 in Hamburg ; † May 19, 1918 there ) was a German actor and theater owner .
Life
Originally given by his family as an apprenticeship in his grandfather's tobacco shop , Drucker later switched to acting. He became a member of the ensemble of Carl Schultze's Theater on Hamburg's Spielbudenplatz , became director of the theater in 1879 and, at just 23 years of age, was the youngest theater director in Germany at the time. He then took over the management of the nearby Centralhalle theater .
In 1884 Drucker took over the Actien-Theater am Spielbudenplatz, which was renamed the Ernst Drucker Theater (in this spelling, without hyphens ) after its owner on May 11, 1895 .
Under Drucker's direction, folk plays in Hamburger Platt (such as Die Zitronenjette ) and revues with a Hamburg theme (such as Hamburg in 2000 ) became an integral part of the repertoire . At the same time, however, he was responsible for the performance of sophisticated contemporary pieces by authors such as Gerhart Hauptmann and Henrik Ibsen : In 1898 the first performance of Ibsen's Die Frau vom Meer took place in the Ernst Drucker Theater in Hamburg .
In 1908 Drucker handed over the management of the theater to Lothar Mayring , but remained the owner. After his death in 1918, the theater became the property of his widow, who sold it in 1921.
Ernst Drucker is buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery. His daughter Wally (1904-1982) became a well-known actress under the name Valerie Boothby .
His sister was the opera singer Zerline Drucker , his brother-in-law the opera singer Sigurd Lunde .
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 214, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Thinius, Carl: Back then in St. Pauli - lust and joy in the suburbs . Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1975. ISBN 3-7672-0368-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register StA Hamburg 3, No. 277/1918
- ↑ Zerline Drucker at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Printer, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and theater owner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1918 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |