Gustav Carl Moltke

Gustav Carl Moltke , also Carl Gustav Moltke (* 23. August 1806 in Braunschweig ; † 13. July 1887 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was a German stage actor and theater intendant .

Life

Moltke was the son of the Weimar chamber singer Carl Melchior Jacob Moltke (1783-1831). He grew up in Weimar and was acquainted with Goethe . In 1824 he made his debut as an actor at the Weimar court theater in Schiller's Wilhelm Tell . afterwards he worked in Magdeburg, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Aachen and Lübeck. From 1833 he worked at the State Theater in Oldenburg , where he also directed. In the 1834/35 season he performed around 60 different roles on stage. In 1857 Moltke was appointed director of the theater in Oldenburg. In 1865 a theater commission was set up as a control body, which Moltke also belonged to. In 1867 he resigned as theater director, but continued to work as an actor in Oldenburg. Moltke, who had a significant influence on theater life in Oldenburg, was socially involved as a Freemason and belonged to the Oldenburg Literary Society from 1876 to 1887 .

family

Moltke was married twice. His first wife was the actress Louise, b. Wood turner, divorced Oldenburg (1808–1839). She was engaged in Frankfurt ad Oder in 1826, then played in Rendsburg, Kiel, Altona, Hamburg, Hanover and Braunschweig, in 1830 in Düsseldorf, then in Aachen, and again in Düsseldorf in 1831, where the couple married in 1832. She performed with her husband in Lübeck, from where the couple came to Oldenburg in autumn 1833. Louise Moltke worked here with great success, on June 16, 1839 she was on stage for the last time. After her death, Moltke married Nannette (Nina) geb. Lay (Ley), later married Bellosa († April 4, 1899), who also appeared as an actress in Oldenburg from 1840 to 1847.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 687 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Christoph Prignitz: Moltke, Gustav Carl. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 473-474 ( online ).