Friedrich Hellwig (actor)

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Friedrich Hellwig (born April 17, 1782 in Kunersdorf bei Wriezen , † November 9, 1825 in Dresden ) was a German singer, actor and director .

Life

family

Friedrich Hellwig was the son of the preacher Jeremias Christoph Ludwig Hellwig (born March 19, 1735, † May 8, 1788) and his second wife Friederike Sophie Elisabeth (née Gutsche) (born September 14, 1745). After the death of his father, his mother moved with him and three other siblings, including Ludwig Hellwig and Carl Hellwig (1778–1862), to live with two of her husband's brothers in Berlin .

His first marriage was in Würzburg , which was later dissolved. In 1815 he married Marie for the second time in Dresden, daughter of Pastor Hempel; her stepfather was the Annaberg mayor Christian Friedrich Benedict (1755-1831).

His son was the actor Wilhelm Hellwig, who was engaged at the Royal Dresden Court Theater from 1838 until his death on September 11, 1842 ; his wife was the actress Wilhelmine Hellwig (née Proksch) (born July 1, 1819 in Prague , † September 15, 1848 in Berlin), later married to the comedian Philipp Grobecker (1815-1883).

education

In Berlin he attended the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster and the Friedrichswerder Gymnasium before attending a private school for six years .

The passion for acting awoke in him at an early age, so that he played children's roles on several private stages in Berlin, but he was supposed to learn a commercial profession and at the age of fifteen was sent to an uncle in Wildungen in the Principality of Waldeck to do an apprenticeship there.

Career

After he had finished his training with a businessman in Berlin, he went to Weißenfels in September 1801 and got a job under the pseudonym Friedrich Haine (also Friedrich Heine ) in a drama company that was headed by the director Hecker; he kept his pseudonym until around 1810. After various attempts in other theater companies, he returned to his family in Berlin, who now supported him in his desire to act.

With the help of August Wilhelm Iffland , he went to Weimar and from there to Camburg , where he took over the management of the traveling company after six months, but gave it up a few months later and got a job in a theater company, which was initially in Waldheim and then performed in Penig . After a short time he moved to Karlsbad , but when the company there declared itself insolvent , he went to Landsberg near Halle , then to Weißenfels and Zeitz ; in May / June 1805 he appeared on the stage of Georg Dengler (1760-1816) in Hildburghausen .

Because he wanted to separate himself from the traveling theater companies, he began an engagement at the theater in Würzburg in 1805, but gave it up again in 1807 and moved alternately to Coburg , Stuttgart , Hanau , Hildburghausen and Ronneburg ; Several times he also appeared in Berlin, including two guest appearances at the Royal National Theater in Berlin .

In September 1811 he found a job at the Royal Dresden Court Theater, conducted by Franz Seconda , and first appeared in Leipzig in the role of Moritz Benjowski in the drama The Conspiracy in Kamtschatka by August von Kotzebue ; in Dresden there was then an appearance as Adelungen in the play Klara von Hoheneichen by Christian Heinrich Spieß . Because he did not agree to Franz Seconda being assigned a role, he asked for his release in 1812.

In autumn 1812 he went to Greiz , where his wife's family ran an acting company, and took over the management there; he had the company in which the Lortzing couple performed with their son Albert Lortzing also perform in Liebenstein , Meiningen , Altenburg , Gotha and Coburg; for financial reasons he dissolved the company in Coburg. Because of his acting performances, he received the support of Duke Friedrich IV. , Who hired him as a librarian, and he received a grant from the Duke's mother, Charlotte von Sachsen-Meiningen . However, because he wanted to get back on the stage, he found an engagement with the theater company of director Joseph Anton Reuter (1769-1816) in Erlangen and went with them to Nuremberg , where he stayed as a director for a year.

In the late summer of 1814 he accepted an invitation to Leipzig and appeared there in several guest roles before he was called to Dresden and engaged at the royal court theater there. He cast the roles of the first heroes and character roles, for example as Otto von Wittelsbach , Wilhelm Tell , King Lear and had also worked as a director since October 1, 1815, including the premiere of Freischütz in Dresden . In 1817 King Friedrich August I distinguished him by granting him a lifelong commitment. He made several guest tours from Dresden, including three guest roles in 1814 and seven guest roles in Berlin in 1819, a role in Leipzig in November and in Lübeck in August 1822 .

His last appearance was in May 1825, after which he was sent to the Sonnenstein near Pirna due to a mental illness .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Hellwig. In: Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe. January 29, 2020, accessed July 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Marie Hellwig. In: Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe. January 20, 2020, accessed July 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large singer lexicon . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 ( google.de [accessed on July 11, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Georg Dengler. In: Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe . January 20, 2020, accessed July 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Iris . J. Wenner, 1826 ( google.de [accessed July 11, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Joseph Reuter - FürthWiki. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
  7. ^ Prölss: History of the court theater in Dresden: from its beginnings to the year 1862 . Wilhelm Baensch Verlagshandlung, 1878 ( google.de [accessed July 11, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Hellwig, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hain, Friedrich; Haine, Friedrich; Heine, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Kunersdorf near Wriezen
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1825
Place of death Dresden