Hans Calm

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Hans Calm , completely Johannes Christian Andreas Calm (born July 9, 1858 in Lübeck , † January 27, 1945 in Dessau ) was a German actor , language teacher and author .

Life

Hans Calm was a son of the Höker Jochen Carl Calm and his wife Caroline Friederike Elisabeth, geb. Wulff. His parents' house was in the street near St. Johannis . From Easter 1868 to Christmas 1873 he attended the elementary school ( Küsterschule ) of the sexton Waack in Fleischhauerstrasse . Calm's autobiography, published in 1928, is a unique source for this type of school, then at the end of its history. Then he himself began training as an elementary teacher and sexton with Simon Kühl, the sexton of the old St. Lorenz Church and father of Gotthardt Kuehl , but then decided to become an actor . In September 1876 he made his debut as a “youthful hero” at the Wolgast theater . After a series of engagements at the theaters in Potsdam , Gotha , Liegnitz , Hamburg and Karlsruhe , he came to the court theater in Dessau in 1899 . Here he made his debut on October 1, 1899 as Duke Alphons in Goethe's Torquato Tasso . Performing in numerous leading roles, he soon became "one of the most important and best-known actors at the Dessau Theater around 1900".

At the end of the 1910/1911 season, he gave up active acting. As a retired Hofschaupieler, he published, among other things, on Dessau theater history. Of particular importance was his new job as a teacher of rhetoric at the Polytechnic in Köthen , at the Preacherseminar Wittenberg and at the seminar for teachers of toddlers in Dessau. For this he wrote his successful textbook on speech technology , which had seven editions by 1938. In addition, he gave private lessons for more than 30 years in his apartment and in the auditorium of the commercial secondary school in Dessau. Margarete Schön was one of his students .

As a Freemason, Calm was a member and librarian of the St. John's Lodge Esiko for the rising light in Dessau, whose chronicle he wrote. He took part in the 19th session of the Evangelical Social Congress in Dessau in 1908.

Hans Calm died in January 1945 and was on the Dessauer cemetery I buried.

estate

Part of Hans Calm's estate is kept in the Dessau-Roßlau city archive. Below is a booklet with the transcripts of his lectures at the Polytechnikum in Köthen on the art of speaking, which was presented as Archivale of the Month January 2020 in the Archives Center Dessau.

Honors

  • Title court actor

Fonts

  • Directory of the book collection of the Esiko Lodge for the rising light in Dessau by Hans Calm: systematically compiled from the holdings from January 1, 1905. Dessau: Art'l 1904
  • Theater and lecture school. Leipzig: Voigtländer 1914 (there was an edition for women and an edition for men )
  • Speech technology textbook for educators, theologians, officers, lawyers, actors and singers, seminars for teachers. 2., verb. u. probably edition, Leipzig: Voigtländer 1917; 3rd, verb. u. presumably edition, Leipzig: Voigtländer 1919; 5th, verb. u. probably edition, Dessau: M. Salzmann 1925; 6., verb. u. probably edition, Dessau: M. Salzmann 1928; 7th, verb. u. probably edition, Dessau: Salzmann 1938.
  • Breathing and gymnastics: a book for everyone. Drawings by Heinrich Schmidt-Rom, Prague; Leipzig; Vienna: Haase 1918
  • Speaker and Speech: Lectures on practical rhetoric. Leipzig: Voigtländer 1919
  • Language and speak. Leipzig: Hirzel 1920 (= Kollegienhefte 14)
  • Church lecturing: for preachers and religious teachers. Leipzig: Voigtländer 1920
  • The Art of Oral Lecture: A Book for School and Home. Leipzig: R. Voigtländer 1921
  • Cultural images from German theater history. Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang 1925
  • Chronicle of the Johannis Lodge "Esiko zum Aufstieg Licht" in Orient Dessau. Dessau 1925
  • The joys and sorrows of a youth. Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang 1928; New edition under the title: My father's house was in Lübeck: The joys and sorrows of a youth. With an afterword by Jürgen W. Scheutzow, Lübeck: LN-Verlag 1978 ISBN 978-3-87498-212-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Based on the baptism entry on August 8, 1858, retrieved from ancestry.com on May 20, 2020
  2. ^ Claus-Hinrich Offen: School in a Hanseatic civil society: on the social history of the lower school system in Lübeck (1800-1866). (= Publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck B 17) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1990 ISBN 9783795004552 , pp. 154f
  3. Hans Calm: Lehrlehrling , in: Niedersachsen 22 (1916/1917), pp. 58-61.73-78; also in: Günter Rickers (ed.): School memories from Schleswig-Holstein. Husum: Husum-Druck- und Verlags-Gesellschaft 1987 ISBN 978-3-88042-332-9 , pp. 59-69
  4. Archives of the month January 2020: Hans Calm: transcripts of lectures on the art of speaking , accessed on May 20, 2020
  5. ^ The negotiations of the 19th Evangelical Social Congress 1908, p. 121