Ferdinand Gregori

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Ferdinand Gregori (born April 13, 1870 in Leipzig , † December 12, 1928 in Berlin ) was a German actor , writer and acting teacher.

Working at the theater

The son of a book printer owner studied science and medicine for several semesters before turning to acting in 1891. He made his debut at the Municipal Theater of Magdeburg . Until he was brought to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin by Otto Brahm in 1895 , Gregori worked at theaters in Lübeck and Barmen and completed his one-year military service in the Reich capital immediately before he took office.

Further engagements brought him from 1898 to 1901 at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. In March 1901 he was brought to the Burgtheater in Vienna by Paul Schlenther and stayed there until 1910. During this time Gregori was appointed kuk court actor and head of the kuk Academy for Music and Performing Arts . In 1910 he accepted the call of artistic director at the Mannheim court theater . “In less than two years, unfortunately, it turned out that Mannheim was not yet ready for the idealistic plans that his new artistic director had in mind for him.” On his return to Vienna, however, he did not even find an actor at the Burgtheater. At the beginning of the First World War, from 1914 to 1916, Gregori was drafted and served as an officer and trainer for recruits in Dresden; then he returned to Berlin. Max Reinhardt had drawn him to the Deutsches Theater as an actor, director and teacher. However, Gregori devoted himself more to his work as a teacher and more intensively pursued his inclinations for literature. He was rarely seen as an actor.

Gregori's range of roles included the entire repertoire of classic hero and character roles - leading roles throughout. He played Hamlet , Karl Moor , Wilhelm Tell , Rudolf von Habsburg, Nathan the Wise , the Marquis Posa and Mephisto in Faust , among others . In the latter stage classic of Goethe's he also shone in the title role. It was to be Gregori's greatest success. In a review from 1900 it was said: It offered "an achievement of the greatest serenity". And critic Heinrich Hart noted: “His Faust ... is a creation of high and noble style, one that is entirely worthy of Goethe. The performer, who can hardly shy away from any comparison in terms of inwardness and psychological sensitivity, has deeply fulfilled himself with the spirit of poetry. "

Work as an acting teacher and author

Gregori was already involved as a teacher during his time at the Burgtheater in Vienna. His most famous students from this period include Maria Fein , Fritz Kortner , Maria Orska and Ellen Richter .

After the end of the First World War, Gregori devoted himself almost exclusively to teaching - although he was still an actor at the Deutsches Theater and also represented on the acting board of this most important German stage. He taught at the drama school of the German Theater and was soon given a professorship at the Theater Studies Institute . His most famous students from this period include Kurt Horwitz , Gerhard Just , Walter Richter and Eduard Wandrey .

Gregori, who had only been available for film roles for a short time (in the years immediately after the First World War), has also written several papers on the subject of theater and acting since the 1890s. He also published reviews of German poetry in specialist journals. So appeared u. a. published by Max Hesses Verlag, Leipzig, the lyric devotions he collected under the title Nature and Love Moods of German Poets .

Filmography

Works

  • 1894: Shakespeare's Hamlet in the light of a new representation
  • 1899: The actor's work
  • 1902: Bernhard Baumeister
  • 1903: Longing for actors
  • 1904: Josef Kainz
  • 1905: At golden tables
  • 1909: Michelangelo
  • 1913: Mask arts
  • 1913: Self-evident and thoughtful things from a theater manager
  • 1919: The actor (From nature and the spiritual world. Collection of scientific and common understandings)
  • 1923: Droste-Hülshoff
  • 1924: German stage art

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Franz Servaes : hours of friendship with Ferdinand Gregori. In: Kölnische Zeitung . No. 698b, December 20, 1928, morning edition.
  2. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg's great biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. 1903, p. 348.
  3. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg's great biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. 1903, p. 348.
personal data
SURNAME Gregori, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, drama teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1928
Place of death Berlin