Gottfried Owl

Gottfried Eule (* 1754 in Dresden ; † June 26, 1826 in Eppendorf ) was a German theater actor , singer ( bass ), comedian and director .

Life

He made his debut in 1774, appeared in 1778 at the Mecklenburg-Strelitz court theater, in "auxiliary and supporting roles", and joined the Kessel'sche Gesellschaft the following year, which first formed Schleswig-Holstein, 1780 Hanover, Hildesheim, Clausthal and the Harz region traveled, recruited and met Marianne Baumann from her, with whom he married in 1780. On November 13, 1781, he made his debut in Hamburg and was a member of the theater there until 1811, in which year he and his wife retired.

Owl was a good buffalo and an excellent comedian, whom the Hamburg audience counted among their favorites. As a “locksmith” in “Love Among Craftsmen”, as “Figaro” in “Barber of Seville”, “Heavenly Storm” in “Deserter”, “Titan” in “Beauty and Virtue”, he is said to have done the best. In contrast, Eule shows himself in an unfavorable light as the director of the Hamburg theater, which he directed from 1798 to 1802 in association with Lahrs, Langerhans, Stegmann and Herzfeld, and from 1802 to 1811 in association with the latter two.

His son was the music director Karl Eule .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 244
• Joseph Kürschner:  Owl, Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 421.