Gustav Laddey

Gustav Heinrich Leopold Laddey ( April 13, 1796 in Koenigsberg - February 2, 1872 in Mainz ) was a German theater actor , director and director .

Life

Laddey entered the stage for the first time on November 25, 1813 as "Ferdinand" in Memel. Although he had not had any theater lessons, his good school was still praised and he remained in this first engagement for five years. From 1818 to 1820 he was a member of the Döbbelin Society in Warsaw, then came to Brno and from there to Ofen , where he also managed the management business with great skill for several years. From 1830 to 1835 he worked as a lover and bon vivant at the Königstädtische Bühne in Berlin, from 1837 to 1841 in Gdansk and from 1844 to 1857 in St. Petersburg. In the last three cities he also worked partly as deputy director, partly as senior director.

In St. Petersburg, where he was already active in the field of heroic fathers and character roles, he reached the highest level of his artistic perfection. In 1857 Laddey withdrew completely into private life (he took a solemn farewell as "Wallenstein" on May 16) and spent the last years of his life in Mainz, where he died as a result of an incurable throat disease.

In 1857 he sold his collection of prints (lubki) to the Russian National Library.

Laddey was married three times, the first time with Christiane Möser, née Christiane Möser, who was a few years older. Feige, the second time with the actress Ulrike Weinland (1898–1841), the third time (1847) with the widowed court actress Molly von Druwanowski born. Ogoleit.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 563 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Gustav Laddey in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition
• The Laddey Collection in the Russian National Library (English)

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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