Hermann Haack (actor)

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Hermann Haack , actually Johann Friedrich August Hermann Dieckhoff (born February 3, 1844 in Berlin as Johann Friedrich August Hermann Bungenstab , † December 27, 1910 in Charlottenburg near Berlin) was a German theater actor and director .

Life

Hermann Bungenstab came in 1844 as the son of the Berlin city surgeon Heinrich Christian Bungenstab and his wife Caroline Friederike, b. Gutzkow, an older sister of the writer Karl Gutzkow . He was nine years old when his father died on July 27, 1853. The following year his mother married the master builder August Dieckhoff , by whom Hermann was adopted on December 7, 1855. In his acting career, Hermann Dieckhoff later used the stage name Hermann Haack .

He began his stage career in the early 1870s, came to Bremen in 1874, to Breslau in 1875, to the Residenztheater in Dresden in 1876 , joined the Association of the Berliner Residenztheater in 1877, to which he belonged until 1884, worked in Rostock in 1885, in Moscow in 1886, and sailed In 1888 he went to America, where he worked for two years at the Ambergtheater in New York , in 1892 for the Berlin theater and in 1893 for the Berlin Residenztheater, of which he was a member for five years, joined the New Theater in 1898 and followed an application to the Residenztheater in Hanover in 1899 , where he excelled in an extraordinarily successful way, especially as an actor for older salon fathers. Most recently he appeared at the Trianontheater in Berlin.

Since his work in Berlin he had a good name in the world of actors and was also successful as a director.

Dieckhoff-Haack was married to Juliane Johanne Wendt on October 3, 1892. This was a sister of the Titanic survivor Antoinette Flegenheim .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Death register StA Charlottenburg III, No. 1780/1910
  2. Marriage Register StA Berlin III, No. 786/1892
  3. ^ Antoinette Flegenheim - First Class Passenger on the Titanic . Encyclopedia Titanica. Retrieved October 25, 2018.