Gustav Thies
Gustav Thies (also: Gustav Thieß ; born September 5, 1845 in Hanover ; † October 19, 1918 in Oberlahnstein ) was a German actor , director and theater director who also emerged as a writer with plays and stories.
Life
Gustav Thies was born in 1845 in the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover . He made his debut as an actor in Rostock in 1865 at the age of around 20 , before taking on various engagements such as in Bremen at the Bremen City Theater , in Meiningen at the court theater there , in his hometown as a member of the court theater ensemble at the Royal Court Theater .
During the founding period of the German Empire, Gustav Thies worked at the opera house there in Kassel from 1877 to 1893 as an actor, from 1885 also as a director and from 1891 as a senior director.
Shortly before the turn of the century, Thies went to Lucerne to direct the local theater there from 1898 to 1902 . He then went to Poznan and directed the Poznan City Theater from 1902 to 1910 .
Gustav Thies died on October 19, 1918, in the last days of the First World War , at the age of 74 in Oberlahnstein.
literature
- Deutsches Theaterlexikon , Vol. 4, p. 2562
Individual evidence
- ↑ n.v . : Thies, Gustav in the database of Niedersächsische Personen [new entry required] of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library [undated], last accessed on July 31, 2017
- ↑ a b c d e Hugo Thielen : Thies, (2) (also Thieß) Gustav. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 360.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thies, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thiess, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater and film actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1918 |
| Place of death | Oberlahnstein |