Friedrich Cordemann (actor)

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Friedrich Cordemann ( November 3, 1769 in Fürstenwalde / Spree - between September 14 and 20 , 1808 in Kassel ) was a German theater actor .

Life

From 1789 to 1790 he played in Berlin under Carl Theophil Doebbelin , from April 1791 to October 1793 under Joseph Seconda and from 1797 to 1798 in Hamburg under Friedrich Ludwig Schröder . He then worked at the theater in Weimar for seven years. He left there in 1804 with his son Ferdinand Cordemann , as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , then theater manager, did not extend his contract because of his behavior and excessive fee demands. Friedrich Schiller then arranged for him to work in Breslau. On November 20, 1807, he signed in Carl Maria von Weber's register . He worked in Stuttgart in 1808. After a guest appearance on February 21, 1808, he was hired to Kassel. There he died unexpectedly at the age of only 38.

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