Gustav Friedrich Wohlbrück

Gustav Friedrich Wohlbrück (born September 27, 1793 in Barth , Pomerania , † March 7, 1849 in Weimar ) was a German theater actor and director .

Life

Wohlbrück, son of the actor Johann Gottfried Wohlbrück , went to the stage at the age of 19 against his father's will and, after his depictions of lovers turned into a fiasco, turned to the character subject, to which he remained faithful until his death.

His first major engagement was in Gdansk for several years. Engagements in Bremen followed, then in Austria and then in Königsberg.

In 1829 he went to St. Petersburg, but had the misfortune that his wife, whom he had left behind in Königsberg, died there on August 17, 1829. Of the four children she had given him, the eldest daughter Ida became an actress, her husband Karl Brüning thus his son-in-law. In 1830 he married the teacher's daughter Eleonore Dorothea Friederike Heß in Königsberg.

In 1838 he returned to Königsberg as a character actor and director. His last engagement was in Weimar in 1841.

He was particularly praised for the following roles: "Franz Moor", "Daniel" in the Majorat , "Poser" in the player , "Wurm" in Kabale and Liebe , "the poor poet", "Duval" in the married couple , "Graf" in the pulse and "Seeger" in the memory .

Wohlbrück fell ill in 1847 and died of stomach cancer in 1849.

literature

Kurt Loup: The Wohlbrücks. A German theater family . Claassen, Düsseldorf 1975, ISBN 3-546-46205-X , table of contents (1 page) (PDF) at the joint library network
Ludwig Eisenberg : Gustav Friedrich Wohlbrück . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 1138 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Hermann Arthur Lier: Wohlbrück . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 709-711.
Friedrich August Schmidt : New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 27: 1849 . Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt , Weimar 1851, pp. 215–217, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10070890-7
Almanac for Friends of the Dramatic Art for the year 1850 , Volume 14. Editor A. Heinrich, Berlin, pp. 75–79 - Internet Archive
Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical directory for theater, dance and Music . Berlin-Verlag Spitz, 1997, p. 2053 (with references).

Remarks

^ Year of death according to ADB, Eisenberg writes 1847.
↑ Eike Pies : Principals - for Genealogy d. German-speaking professional theater from the 17th to the 19th century . A. Henn Verlag, Düsseldorf 1973, ISBN 3-450-01061-1 , p. 389 genealogical overview (after Kurt Loup)

personal data
SURNAME	Wohlbrück, Gustav Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theater actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barth , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH	March 7, 1849
Place of death	Weimar

↑ Lutherische Kirchengemeinde Königsberg (Pr.), Altstadt, p. 47, No. 13, on April 5, 1830.

[1] Year of death according to ADB, Eisenberg writes 1847.

[2] Eike Pies : Principals - for Genealogy d. German-speaking professional theater from the 17th to the 19th century . A. Henn Verlag, Düsseldorf 1973, ISBN 3-450-01061-1 , p. 389 genealogical overview (after Kurt Loup)

[3] Lutherische Kirchengemeinde Königsberg (Pr.), Altstadt, p. 47, No. 13, on April 5, 1830.