Georg Adam Ball

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Georg Adam Ball (* 1799 in Lauterburg , Alsace , † 6. September 1846 in Innsbruck ) was a German theater actor , playwright and writer .

Life

Georg Adam Ball began his stage career with the Koch Society in Aachen in 1819 without having had any dramatic training. He toured Strasbourg, Basel , Bern , Colmar etc. with the Koch Society and was welcome everywhere. His next engagement was in Düsseldorf and in 1822 in Cologne. Here he stayed until 1823, after having worked for a short time at the Würzburg theater, to accept an engagement at the Mannheim court theater. From 1827 to 1835 he worked with distinction in Bremen and Nuremberg, and in 1835 he became a member of the Leipzig Theater. From 1837 to 1839 he worked again in Nuremberg.

From there he retired from the stage to become a writer.

In the last year of his life he worked again as an actor in Innsbruck.

The circumstances of his death are unclear. He and his niece, actress Auguste Pauline Liechtenstein , were found dead in bed on September 6, 1846, with throats cut, each with a knife in hand. In the middle of the room, the doors and windows of which were carefully blocked, there was also a brazier.

As a writer, he has made himself known as a playwright of several short stories and novels.

Works

• Robespierre or the ninth Thermidor. Drama in 3 parts and 8 pictures. A painting of the French Revolution in 1794. After Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis. Winter, Nuremberg 1832.
• The golden cup or the altar of St. Lawrence. A story from Nuremberg's prehistory. Renner and cobbler. Nuremberg 1835.
• Friedrich Blum, Georg Adam Ball: The Wäringer: historical-romantic drama in five acts; Based on a story by Wachsmann , Verlag Sittenfeld, 1846, 68 pages

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 45 f.