Ferdinand Esslair

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Ferdinand Esslair

Ferdinand Johann Baptist Eßlair (born February 2, 1772 in Esseg , Slavonia or Gotschdorf or Geppersdorf in Silesia ; † November 10, 1840 in Mühlau near Innsbruck ) was an Austro-German actor and theater director of Slavonian or Silesian origin. Many details from Esslair's biography are also unexplained in the new research literature.

Life

Eßlair first devoted himself to a military career before he discovered acting in Innsbruck in 1795. Soon afterwards he went to Passau , made a guest appearance in Munich in 1797 , in Prague the following year , and also played in Stuttgart , Augsburg , Strasbourg and Salzburg . He worked in Nuremberg from 1801 to 1806 , partly as director.

In Stuttgart, where he had been engaged since 1807, he married the actress Elise Müller and was engaged together with her for the court theater in Mannheim in the same year , then moved to the court theater in Karlsruhe in 1812 . In 1815 he came to Stuttgart as a director and in 1820 in precisely this capacity at the Hoftheater in Munich, where he was particularly valued, but was also in constant dispute with some critics, such as Moritz Gottlieb Saphir . Later, already retired, he continued to appear on all the well-known stages in Germany . He died on an art tour in Mühlau , now a district of Innsbruck.

Esslair primarily embodied the roles of heroes. His brilliant roles were: Karl Moor , Wilhelm Tell , Wallenstein , Macbeth , King Lear and others. Critics accused him of being applauded in his later life as an artist.

He was married three times. His first wife Ignatia geb. Fuchshuber died in 1806. In 1807 he married the actress Elise Müller, who was also engaged in Stuttgart and from whom he later divorced. Around 1818 he married the actress Friederike Ettmeier.

Eßlair's daughter Hedwig (* Nuremberg, April 12, 1804; † Breslau, March 7, 1897), his eldest daughter from his first marriage, fell in love with Franz Schubert's friend Franz von Schober during her engagement as an actress in Breslau in 1823/24 , but then married up At the behest of the father, the Silesian Baron Albert Johann Maximilian Friedrich von Ohlen and Adlerscron (1786–1860).

His nephew Max Eßlair was also a stage actor.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elise Müller: Not to be confused with the pianist Elise Müller or with the soprano Marie Elisa Müller geb. Thau, who married the orchestra director Johann Michael Müller and was employed in Stuttgart from 1808–1809 and 1812–1827.
personal data
SURNAME Eßlair, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eßlair, Ferdinand Johann Baptist (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Esseg , Slavonia or Gotschdorf or Geppersdorf , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1840
Place of death Mühlau near Innsbruck