Gustav August Brewer

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Gustav August Brauer (born July 13, 1818 in Leipzig , † January 16, 1878 in Metz ) was a German theater director .

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After appropriate training and first professional intermediate positions, Brauer got his first managerial position as theater director in Elberfeld in 1845 , where his wife also worked as a soprano. Two years later he moved to the Aachen Theater as the theater director appointed privately by the city . As early as the 1850 season, Brauer then took over the position of director at the State Theater in Nuremberg , where he managed to consolidate the house, which had run into financial difficulties, in a very short time. During his time there, the theater privilege was abolished and subsidies were introduced by the city. The artistic quality increased again significantly under Brauer's direction and operas by Giuseppe Verdi ( Ernani , 1850) and Richard Wagner ( Tannhäuser , 1856) could be performed for the first time.

In 1858 Brauer ended his engagement in Nuremberg and took over the position of director at the Carltheater in Vienna from 1860 to 1862 . There he lost his luck as a renovator and he could no longer stop the bankruptcy of the theater, which had to be wound up a year after his departure under his successor Moritz Lehmann.

Afterwards, it was quiet about Brauer, all that is known is that he last lived in Metz and there directed the Opéra-théâtre de Metz for a while.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allgemeine Theater-Chronik: Organ for the general interest of the German theaters and their members , Schaarschmidt & Volckmar, 1845, ( digitalized )
  2. ^ Dominik Troger: Heinrich Sontheim's guest performance at the Vienna Carltheater in August 1869 , in: Opera in the Wiener Vorstadttheatern, Vienna October 2002
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SURNAME Brauer, Gustav August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1878
Place of death Metz