Ernst Gettke

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Ernst Gettke in 1902
Memorial plaque on the house, Möckernstrasse 68, in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Ernst Gettke (born October 10, 1841 in Berlin ; † December 4, 1912 there ) was a German actor and theater director.

Life

Ernst Gettke was to become a pastor at the request of his parents. He attended the Catholic St. Hedwig School in his hometown, but left it in 1855 without a degree and began commercial training. At the same time he began to play theater together with friends and was able to successfully debut as "Julius" at the Flora Theater Association on April 12, 1859 .

Through this success, Eduard Meysel became aware of Gettke and hired him for his summer theater . From there Gettke end of that year ans went Municipal Theater of Quedlinburg . He later moved to Kyritz and was seen on many Prussian provincial theaters until autumn 1865.

For the season 1865/66 Gettke came under contract in Danzig and then moved to the Bremen City Theater until 1867 . The next stop was the royal court theater in Kassel . From 1867 he also acted repeatedly as a director. In 1882 he accepted a position as senior director at the New Theater in Leipzig .

In June 1871, Gettke met his colleagues Ludwig Barnay and Franz Krückl (Krückel) in Leipzig and together with them founded the Cooperative of German Stage Members . Until 1877 he also acted as vice president.

In 1888 Gettke took over the management of the Stadttheater am Brausenwerth in Elberfeld (today a district of Wuppertal ) and opened the season on September 6th with Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris . Between 1893 and 1907 he was entrusted with the management of the Raimund Theater in Vienna and he started with a highly acclaimed production of Ferdinand Raimund's play Die gefesselte Phantasie .

Roles (selection)

Works (selection)

author
  • Laburnum. Comedy .
  • Hocus pocus. Sway .
  • In purgatory. Comedy (together with A. Engel).
  • Coulisse magic. Comedy . (together with A. Engel).
editor
  • Deutsches Theater-Lexikon (together with Adolf Oppenheim ).
  • Almanac of the Cooperative of German Stage Members . 1873-1888.

Web links

Commons : Ernst Gettke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Richard Wagner : Letter to an actor . In: Ders .: Werke , Vol. 9 (1873).
  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century . List, Leipzig 1903, pp. 323-324.
  • Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon , first volume. Verlag Ferd. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953, p. 549

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Schnöring: Wuppertal in old views. Volume 2. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1981. ISBN 978-9-02885-479-6 . P. 26, 27.
personal data
SURNAME Gettke, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1912
Place of death Berlin , Germany