Ferdinand Roeder

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Ferdinand Röder (* 1807 in Cologne ; † June 30, 1880 in Bad Honnef ) was a German actor , director and theater manager , theater agent and editor of the "Theater-Moniteurs" published in Berlin.

Family and life as an actor

Röder was born in 1807 as the son of a highly respected family and was married twice - first with Annette Röder, b. Schilling († October 4, 1893), second marriage to Berta Röder von Romani (1829–?). Röder had an adopted daughter from this connection, the soprano Mila Röder (1849–1887).

After his success as an actor in the amateur and character role of smaller stages, he first appeared as an actor at the Königsstädter Theater and then as a guest actor at the Theater an der Wien (1837). In Regensburg in 1838 Röder signed a contract as a guest actor for 7 pieces for a fee and a benefit performance. However, there is a scandal: the benefit performance, the proceeds of which should be awarded to Röder, was so poorly attended that Röder canceled the performance. There was Handel between him and another actor backstage considering an anonymous publication of the incident in various newspapers by themselves, at length responded to the turn Röder.

Theater director

Röder's career is typical of 19th century theater people. Theater directors worked on their own account and usually had to bring their own inventory and play texts when they took over a venue. So too Röder: Ferdinand Röder seldom stayed as theater director for more than one season in one place after 1840. He has consistently had problems with budget management, as reported about him in several newspapers.

Ferdinand Röder was director at the following theaters:

In 1856 Röder founded a theater magazine and a theater office and from then on worked as a theater agent and publisher of the newspaper "Theater-Moniteur". He died after a long illness in 1880 on his country estate in Bad Honnef .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Ferdinand Röder. Resolute, A. (Ed). Stage almanac. Forty-fifth vintage. January 1, 1881. pp. 174ff.
  2. ↑ "Mila Röder was the adopted daughter of the actor and later theater director Ferdinand Röder, who appeared as an impresario for traveling theater companies in London, for a time, directed the Deutsche Oper in Amsterdam and from 1850 to 1852 the theater of Riga , and the singer Bertha Röder by Romani. Her real name was Mila Mielke. From 1856 her father worked as an influential theater agent in Berlin . He took care of her training as a singer, which took place mainly through Gustave Roger in Paris. ” Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon . Volume 4. Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 2004. P. 3971.
  3. ^ The Telegraph, Austrian conversation paper. https://books.google.de/books?id=7ERbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA287&lpg=PA287&dq=r%C3%B6der+theater+an+der+wien&source=bl&ots=SgzWfWyuK3&sig=DBMJ6UJoerVqnHrqoToq3lMC7jU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz3vP30fLJAhUGThQKHaHhDVoQ6AEILjAD#v=onepage&q= r% C3% B6der% 20theater% 20an% 20der% 20wien & f = false
  4. ^ General newspaper from and for Bavaria. Daily newspaper for politics, literature and entertainment. Nuremberg. No. 128, Tuesday, May 8, 1838.
  5. ↑ Süddeutsche Blätter für Leben, Wissenschaft und Kunst, edited by Dr. Georg Schlemmer. 2nd year, No. 56. Nuremberg. Tuesday, May 15, 1838. p. 224.
  6. ^ General newspaper from and for Bavaria. Daily newspaper for politics, literature and entertainment. Nuremberg. No. 128, Tuesday, May 8, 1838.
  7. ↑ "[Röder] was lacking the virtue of economic efficiency, and so his institute had to gradually disintegrate." Despite pressing obligations, he performed like a pasha. Although the closest neighbor of the theater, he drove to rehearsals and performances in his own equipage. All officers had to wear uniform. ' The end, however, was that in 1855 amateur performances were held to satisfy the backward fee claims of the orchestra members. " Merlo, JJ On the history of the Cologne theater in the 18th and 19th centuries. Pp. 145-219. In: Annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine, in particular the old archdiocese of Cologne. Fiftieth Book. Cologne, 1890. pp. 213-14.
  8. ↑ "Pecuniary blessing was not included because Roeder, in his striving to deliver good, did not always take the costs into account." Resolute, A. (Ed). Stage almanac. Forty-fifth vintage. January 1, 1881 p. 174ff.
  9. ↑ "The differences that take place between Bamberg's (sic) orchestra and me will have turned in my favor in a few days, because it was not me, but the orchestra that did not fulfill its obligations towards me, and for these reasons I stopped On the advice of my lawyer, the Royal Assessor, Mr. Prell, the last half a month's fee of 140 guilders was returned to him. " Bayreuther Zeitung, No. 110.Sunday, May 9, 1841.
  10. ^ "From September 12, 1844 to August 31, 1848, director Ferdinand Röder as a privilege buyer. The buyer for the same, however, was Count Piankowsky." Hysel, Franz Eduard. End of the 35-year theater privilege of the city of Nuremberg: sketch. Nuremberg, Dr. Bieling Verlag, 1868. p. 12.
  11. ↑ "... but after very significant financial losses for the year 1846/47 left it back to Ferdinand Röder. At the same time he had the Nuremberg City Theater, but, as with such a combined (sic) company, could not expect otherwise After a series of neglects, which the local stage had to experience as the less useful one, he dropped it entirely in January 1847. For several of the long winter months the theater was closed and only towards the end the season director Seliger appeared with a drama. " Leist, Friedrich. A contribution to the history of the theater in Bamberg. Bamberg, Reindl Verlag, 1862. p. 17.
  12. ↑ "Cologne, September 16, 1853. Yesterday our city theater, whose direction Mr. Ferdinand Röder has taken over for three years, opened with a very successful performance of Boieldieu's" White Lady ". The house was well occupied, and that Publicum left the hall satisfied. " Niederrheinische Musik-Zeitung, Volume 1, Number 12, September 17, 1853.
  13. ↑ When the season was over, Spielberger (or Naso, as the scoffers called him) resigned in 1853. He was followed by Ferdinand Röder, called "the beautiful Ferdinand", a native of Cologne. He stayed here for two seasons (1853–1854 and 1854–1855) and brought Richard Wagner's operas "Tannhäuser" and "Lohengrin" to the Cologne stage first, the Tannhäuser on November 25, 1853, and the Lohengrin in January 1855. " Merlo, JJ On the history of the Cologne theater in the 18th and 19th centuries, pp. 145-219. In: Annals of the Historisches Verein für den Niederrhein, especially the old archdiocese of Cologne. Fiftieth booklet. Cologne, 1890. pp. 213-214 .
  14. ↑ "The capable actor and equally capable comedy poet Herr Görner is stepping down from the direction of Kroll's stage and will only be traveling for a long time on guest roles. - His successor is the active director and energetic theater agent Ferdinand Roeder. With his extraordinary expertise, with his With zeal and his many connections with the first artistic difficulties, a bright future can be predicted for the Kroll'schen stage. On October 1st of this year, Mr. Röder begins his work as director, his agency business will not be changed in any way. " The Viennese fashion newspaper with industrial and technical sample boards, inserts from Parisian and Viennese original fashions and portraits of outstanding personalities of the present. 16th year, July 15, 1857. p. 187.
personal data
SURNAME Roeder, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1880
Place of death Bad Honnef