Gustav August Adolf Becker

Gustav August Adolf Becker ( October 7, 1805 in Potsdam - March 24, 1841 ) was a German theater actor , singer ( bass ) and theater and opera director .

Life

He began his theatrical career in Stettin in 1822. The reason for this was the ideas of the Couriolian Society. But his representations were still inadequate and he preferred to go to the royal family in 1824. To enter the theater singing school in Berlin. After staying there for three years, he went to the royal for small bass parts and supporting roles in drama. Engaged theater. However, he felt that he would not get any major roles here and so, after several years of engagement there, he followed an appointment to Posen in 1834. In 1835 he was engaged in Meiningen, 1836 in Leipzig, 1838 in Nuremberg and 1839 in Bremen. There he contracted a throat disease as a result of excessive exertion. After his restoration, he made a guest appearance at the Königstädter Theater in Berlin and was about to take up a call to Mainz. But since he did not feel strong enough, he accepted an engagement as a director of the opera and drama on the trip to Mainz in Dessau. There his throat disease broke out again, this time vicious. He died of a stroke.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Gustav August Adolf Becker . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 72 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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