Franz Bubenzer

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Franz Bubenzer (born May 3, 1872 in Niederhof , Gummersbach district , † August 3, 1934 in Hanover ) was a German architect , portrait painter , actor and director , author and theater director and photographer . He signed and performed under the stage name Franz Rolan .

Life

family

After the death of his mother in childbed, Bubenzer grew up with his uncle in Hanover, which he was only told as a young adult. He was married to the actress Pauline Fisher (born May 21, 1878 in Kassel , † June 26, 1964 in Berenbostel ), who appeared under the stage name Paula Nicolai . The couple had two children; the son Karl Bubenzer was married to Eva Hermanns, the youngest daughter of the painter Rudolf Hermanns , his daughter Ilse to the architect Carl Bauer jr. from Hannover.

Career

Franz Bubenzer studied from 1891 to 1895 at the Technical University of Hanover with Conrad Wilhelm Hase , Hubert Stier and Karl Börgemann . At the same time he worked as an architect in Bremen from 1894 and also directed theater performances in Hanover with students of the Academic Association Hanover at the Residenztheater and at the Opera House .

While still a student, Bubenzer became a member of the Hannoversche Bauhütte in 1895 . In 1896 he moved to the Technical University of Munich to study painting at the art academy, among others with Franz Stuck . In 1897 Bubenzer studied again in Hanover.

1898 Bubenzer involved in an expedition to the Arctic Ocean to where the Bear Island to survey. However, the adventurer Theodor Lerner , who had tried in vain to take possession of the island for the German Empire by means of surveying, had anticipated him.

From 1901 to 1910 Bubenzer appeared in Berlin as an actor a. a. at the Schillertheater (Berlin) , with Raphael Löwenfeld as director, and in the meantime wrote “a memorandum on the theater situation in Hanover” in 1908 .

Imprint: “Hannover. The Schauburg . Built according to the drafts and under the supervision of the architects Leyn and Goedecke. ”Bubenzer is not mentioned. ( Postcard number "1011" from Karl F. Wunder )

Back in Hanover, in 1911 Bubenzer opened the Schauburg (from 1926: “Städtisches Schauspielhaus”) on Hildesheimer Strasse, built by himself and the architects Wilhelm Leyn and Rudolf Goedecke , which he then headed as director and director .

In the First World War Bubenzer was drafted as ungedienter Landsturmmann claims to be an officer exams made in Namur as an observer in the balloon, had four parachute jumps from the enemy and returned as a lieutenant d. R. returned with the EKI in 1918.

Back in Hanover, from 1920 Bubenzer worked as a portrait painter with his own studio in the Hansahaus on Aegidientorplatz . In 1921 he applied to be the artistic director of the municipal theaters , at the time for both the opera house and the theaters . However, he was defeated by Willy Grunwald , who was born in Hanover , who came from the Berlin Lessing Theater , and then, as a declared opponent of modern theater development in Hanover, wrote a diatribe against Willy Grunwald.

Works

buildings

  • 1911: Theater Schauburg in Hanover, Hildesheimer Straße (together with Rudolf Goedecke and Wilhelm Leyn; destroyed in 1943)

Fonts (incomplete)

  • Willy Grunwald. A character study. 1926.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to information on the marriage certificate of the Berlin-Charlottenburg registry office, No. 369/1904
  2. ↑ life data according to printed → literature; In the database of architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) (→ Weblinks), different life dates are given, which may be based on more recent research results.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Hugo Thielen : Bubenzer (also: Rolan or Rolan-Bubenzer), Franz. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 75f. (online at Google Books )
  4. ↑ a b c d e Friedrich Lindau : Franz Bubenzer, called Rolan. In: Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. With a foreword by Paulhans Peters. 2nd, revised edition. Schlütersche , Hannover 2001, ISBN 3-87706-659-3 , p. 321f. (online at Google Books )
  5. ↑ Family tradition
  6. ^ Hugo Thielen : Kreuzer, Hans. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 213; online through google books
  7. ↑ He was not the father-in-law of the painter Hans Kreuzer , as claimed in the Hannoversche Biographisches Lexikon , p. 213
  8. ↑ K. Barthelmess: Bäreninsel 1898 and 1899. How Theodor Lerner unknowingly thwarted a secret mission of the German Sea Fisheries Association to create a German Arctic colony. In: Polarforschung , Journal of the German Society for Polar Research, 78 (2009), 1/2, p. 68 f.
  9. ↑ own curriculum vitae, s. u.
  10. ↑ Information from his curriculum vitae, presumably written on the occasion of his application as artistic director, s. u.
  11. ↑ Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the City of Hanover, Volume 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , p. 468 (online at Google books )
  12. ^ Goedecke. In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 41, K. G. Saur , pp. 496f. (online at Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Bubenzer, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rolan, Franz; Rolan-Bubenzer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, portrait painter, actor and director, author and theater director and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederhof , Gummersbach district
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1934
Place of death Hanover