Franz Kirms

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Franz Kirms

Franz Kirms (born December 21, 1750 - May 3, 1826 in Weimar ), ran the Weimar Theater with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

Life

Franz Kirms came from a long-established Weimar official's family, in a 1520 built in the Jakobstraße 10 since 1701 House lived. He was a finance officer, from 1789 councilor of the court and from 1814 privy councilor in Weimar . Duke Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1757-1828) gave him the supervision of the court marshal and stable office.

From 1791 he supported Goethe in the theater management. He was responsible for the actual business administration of the Weimar Theater, a task that he resolved skillfully and energetically. After Goethe's departure he ran the theater together with Count Albert Cajetan von Edling until a few years before his death . Goethe valued Kirms very much.

Kirms is buried with his wife in the historic cemetery in Weimar.

Rating

In a conversation with Chancellor Friedrich von Müller and Friedrich Soret on March 16, 1824, Goethe paid tribute to Franz Kirms as director at the end of his career:

“Kirms earned its merit in a time when it was still important to save and do a lot with a little. I had no penny for my direction, I still spent a lot of money on feeding out the actors and enjoyed the privilege of a sovereign to be genereus to my heart's content. Yes, we are from an old, different time and need not be ashamed of it. "

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Biedrzynski, Effi; Goethes Weimar, Artemis & Winkler Verlag, Mannheim; ISBN 978-3-538-07300-5
  2. Jeßing, Benedikt [Ed.] Metzler-Goethe-Lexikon. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler 1999. ISBN 3-476-01589-0
  3. Henze, Hannelore; Schmidt, Doris-Annette. The historic cemetery in Weimar. Ilmenau: Rhino Verlag 2011, pp. 140-141, ISBN 9783939399087
  4. Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann (Ed.): Conversations with Goethe: With Friedrich von Müller and Friedrich Soret on March 16, 1924. In: Goethe's Conversations Volume 1–10 (= Goethe's Conversations. Volume 5). Leipzig 1889-1896. ( online )