Eugen Staegemann
Eugen Eduard Otto Staegemann (born October 13, 1845 in Freienwalde , † March 11, 1899 in Düsseldorf ) was a German actor , director and theater manager .
Life
Max Staegemann's brother received acting lessons from his uncle Eduard Devrient and made his debut in Karlsruhe in 1863 . In 1867 it came to the Hamburg City Theater via Bremen , Meiningen and Hanover . Here he played the cheerful, witty, charming roles as a bon vivant for twelve years . In the same subject he shone for another eight years at the Stadttheater in Frankfurt am Main .
From 1888 to 1891 he worked as an actor and director at the Lessing Theater in Berlin , where he worked in Henrik Ibsen's Nora to Torvald Helmer was. Otto Brahm wrote about his portrayal: Mr. Staegemann first put the figure in the right light and clearly marked all the pedantic and petty of the figure from the beginning with a self-denial, which the performers of the amateur roles rarely bring up.
In 1891 he took over the management of the Düsseldorf City Theater , which he opened on September 15 with a production of Wildenbruch's Der neue Herr . As an actor, he was rarely on stage. On March 18, 1893 he played Ferreol von Meyran in Victorien Sardou 's play of the same name and in 1894 he played Konstantin von Horst in Gustav von Moser's A Modern Barbarian .
Due to serious rehearsals and successful, critically acclaimed productions, the Düsseldorf Theater, which was connected to the Duisburg Theater, experienced a great boom under Staegemann's direction.
He was a stately and elegant figure and popular mainly in the field of modern drama and comedy. His creations as a bon vivant, like his lovers, were characterized by witty charm and extremely amiable humor (...).
Staegemann also wrote plays himself, which were repeatedly performed at the Königliches Schauspielhaus Berlin .
Eugen Staegemann was married to the actress Ida Valeska Malwine Kaulbach , a niece of the painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach , who continued the management in Düsseldorf after the death of her husband.
Stage works
- At Ranneck Castle
- The namesakes , comedy, first performance : 1877, Berlin
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 985, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and Bibliographical Handbook , Volume 4, KG Saur, Bern and Munich 1998, p. 2269.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted from: Julius Bab: Die Devrients. History of a German theater family , Georg Stilke, Berlin 1932, p. 289.
- ↑ Eisenberg, p. 985.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Staegemann, Eugene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Staegemann, Eugen Eduard Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, director and artistic director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freienwalde |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1899 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |