Hilmar Knorr

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Hilmar Knorr (Photo: J. Albert)
Hilmar Knorr as Fiesco in The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa (Photo: J. Albert)

Georg Hilmar Knorr (born January 21, 1847 in Glauchau , † 1919 in Munich ) was a German theater actor and theater director .

At the beginning of the 1870s he played as an "excellent lover" at the City Theater in Breslau . From 1875 to 1885, Knorr was a royal Bavarian court actor at the Munich Court Theater . In the theater season 1887/88 Knorr played again as a member of Meininger in Breslau, this time at the Praise Theater . In Schiller's Maiden of Orleans , he gave Count Dunois.

After the Meininger Theater had ended his travel time through Europe in 1890, Knorr went to the USA as stage manager of the so-called Pseudo-Meininger with the artistic director Max Schiller, where they performed four plays in nine cities, such as New York , Chicago and Milwaukee . After bad press and fights between Schiller and his main actor Gustav Kober (1849-1920), Schiller threw Kober and the last two original Meininger actors, Mathieu Pfeil (1862-1939) and Knorr, out of the troupe.

In 1895 Knorr was part of the ensemble of the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Oldenburg . In the same year he took his leave from the stage.

In 1915 he lived as a Saxon-Altenburg court theater director a. D as the house owner (Marienstraße 21) in the Dresden suburb of Radebeul . He was awarded the Altenburg Medal of Merit for Art and Science in gold.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hilmar Knorr  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Sittenfeld: History of the Breslau Theater from 1841 to 1900. Preuß & Jünger, Breslau 1909, p. 158.
  2. ^ Ludwig Sittenfeld: History of the Breslau Theater from 1841 to 1900. Preuß & Jünger, Breslau 1909, p. 282.
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  4. ^ John Hanners: "It Was Play Or Starve": Acting in the Nineteenth Century American Popular Theater. Popular Press, 1993, p. 92 f.
  5. ↑ Civil daily calendar and biographical-historical actor calendar with notepads for the year 1895. In: Reichstheaterkammer Fachschaft Bühne (Ed.): German stage yearbook: Theater history year and address book. Volume 6 (German Edition). ISBN 978-5-87511-131-0 , p. 476 ( online ).
  6. ^ Address book Dresden with suburbs, 1915, pp. 433, 454.
personal data
SURNAME Knorr, Hilmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knorr, Georg Hilmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Glauchau
DATE OF DEATH 1919
Place of death Munich