Franz Hoppé

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Franz Hoppé

Franz Hoppé , also Franz Hoppe (* 1810 in St. Petersburg ; † July 5 or 6, 1849 in Berlin ), was a German actor and opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

Franz Hoppé, son of the actor Georg Christoph Hoppe, who went to Germany after an engagement at the St. Petersburg Court Theater, did "musical studies" in Paris for some time , according to Joseph Kürschner . A biographical summary, which appeared in the Hamburger Zeitung , among others , reports in more detail the anecdote that although Hoppé had entered the conservatory to take the entrance exam for piano studies, on the occasion he heard a little boy play so perfectly that he did it Having left the house without even daring to try, and returned to his hometown "quite sad and completely at a loss", where he then set his sights on a musical career and started "cultivating the horn". He then went back to Paris and actually started training as a French horn player at the conservatory. However, according to this life story, the success was rather moderate, so that Hoppé switched to pharmacy and finally returned to St. Petersburg again.

In the early 1830s, however, he turned to a singer and stage career and initially received engagements at small and medium-sized stages, including in Riga . While he initially worked as an opera singer, from his time in Düsseldorf he concentrated entirely on acting. After an engagement in Cologne , he moved to the Hamburg City Theater in 1838 , where he was successful with the title role in Karl Töpfer's play The Rich Man . In 1842 he got an engagement in Braunschweig and in 1844 he moved to the Berlin court theater , his last place of work.

In Braunschweig he had actually had a lifelong job and apparently disappeared very suddenly the day before a performance of Faust . Hoppé, already suffering from "Zehrfieber", had his last appearance on June 22, 1849 as Marinelli in Emilia Galotti . A son had been born to him two days earlier.

Hoppé was married for the second time. His second wife, whom he married on September 28, 1848, was Clara Stich , a daughter of the actor couple Auguste Crelinger and Wilhelm Heinrich Stich . She married the singer Theodor Liedtcke in her second marriage .

His first wife, whom he had married in London and who had also been an actress, had given birth to him three children, was addicted to “an incurable madness”, was divorced from Hoppé and taken to an institution.

Obituary

Franz Hoppé died in Berlin in 1849 at the age of only 39 and was buried in the St. Hedwig cemetery on Liesenstrasse . The tomb has not been preserved. His successor on the Berlin stage was Ludwig Dessoir .

Kürschner described Hoppé as one of the most usable actors on the Berlin stage and wrote about him: "Hoppé's talent was characterized by avoiding everything rough and unattractive, by emphasizing the smooth, moderate [...]" The demonic of Franz Moor or Mephistopheles was lost him, whereas he showed his strengths in roles like Gessler, Nathan and village judge Adam.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical Index for Theater, Dance and Music / Biographical Index for Theater, Dance and Music . Berlin publishing house. Arno Spitz GmbH. 1997. Page 818. ISBN 978-3-87061-479-9
  2. ↑ a b Joseph Kürschner:  Hoppé, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 114.
  3. ↑ Schaarschmidt & Volckmar: Allgemeine Theater-Chronik , Schaarschmidt & Volckmar, 1843, p. 367 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  4. ↑ The dates of the engagements are given according to the ADB, according to Pierer's Universal Lexicon of the Present and Past , he is said to have been at the Stadttheater Hamburg as early as 1832. See Hoppé at www.zeno.org
  5. ^ Verlag L. Voss: Newspaper for the elegant world, Verlag L. Voss, 1844, p. 699 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  6. ↑ a b Schauer: Album des Königl. Acting and the Royal. Berlin Opera under the direction of August Wilhelm Iffland, Karl Grafen von Brühl, Wilhelm Grafen von Redern and Karl Theodor von Küstner for the period 1796-1851, Schauer, 1858, p.  103
  7. ↑ Schauer: Album des Königl. Acting and the Royal. Berlin Opera under the direction of August Wilhelm Iffland, Karl Count von Brühl, Wilhelm Count von Redern and Karl Theodor von Küstner for the period 1796-1851. Schauer, 1858, p. 104 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  8. ^ Karl Frenzel: Berliner Dramaturgie, 1877, p. 255 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  9. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 54.
  10. ↑ Ernst Keil: The Gazebo; Supplement to the illustr. Dorfbarbier, Ernst Keil, 1863, p. 344 ( limited preview in Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Hoppé, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoppe, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1849 or July 6, 1849
Place of death Berlin