Ernst Mewes
Ernst Mewes (born March 2, 1884 in Detmold , German Reich , † October 17, 1918 near Diksmuide , Flanders , Belgium ) was a German theater actor .
Live and act
The son of Otto Brahm's stage secretary , Adolf Mewes, and the older brother of actress Anni Mewes , received his artistic training from Margarete Pix in Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century . He was then brought to the stage by Brahm, the director of the Deutsches Theater . Mewes performed at this venue until July 1903, after which he went hiking; for example to the summer stage Kurtheater Norderney, to the new and small theater in Berlin, to the summer theater Bald Helmstedt, the city theater of Neisse, the Altonaer Schiller-Theater and finally to the united theaters of Cöln (today's Cologne).
His best-known roles include the Hereditary Prince Karl-Heinz in the romance Alt-Heidelberg , Don Karlos in the Schiller play of the same name, Ferdinand in Cabal and Love , the Prince of Homburg in the Kleist model of the same name, the enthusiastic student Karl in the Drama Traumulus , Osvald in Ibsen's Ghosts and Willy Janikow in Sudermann 's Sodom's End . After only about a decade of theater activity, the promising career of the attractive young artist came to an abrupt end, and Mewes was drafted during the First World War and deployed on the Western Front. Lieutenant Mewes fell there a few weeks before the end of the war on a section of the front in West Flanders. He was buried in the war cemetery in Vladslo.
literature
- Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 44.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mewes, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German stage actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detmold , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1918 |
| Place of death | near Diksmuide , Flanders , Belgium |