Hugo Jessen

Hugo Jessen, 1893.

Hugo Jessen, before 1906.

Hugo Jessen ( August 22, 1867 in Glückstadt , Holstein - January 8, 1906 in Göppingen ) was a German theater actor .

Life

Hugo Jessen was the son of a medical councilor (* 1827) and a direct descendant of Martin Luther . He studied medicine in Munich, and when he visited Lübeck in 1887, he decided "under the influence of the theatrical impressions he gained there to give up his studies entirely and to turn to the stage career." He then took dramatic lessons from the actor August Niemann .

job

Jessen received his first engagement in Stade at the Tivolitheater in 1889 and came to the Stadttheater in Lübeck that winter, where he worked until 1892. Then he got an engagement at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna, where “he probably only came into play in second roles, but with a lot of luck he played them”. In 1894 he received a call to the court theater in Stuttgart. There he asserted himself as a “welcome performer who knew how to win a large circle of friends and admirers through his talent and advantageous artistic qualities. Bon vivants and young lovers were among his most popular roles. "

marriage

After his engagement at the Hofbühne, Jessen lived at Hohenheimer Strasse 50 B until 1902. On September 1, 1902, he married the actress Emmy Remolt-Jessen in the Lukaskirche in Munich . She came from Munich and had also been employed at the court theater in Stuttgart since 1899. After the marriage, the couple lived at Neckarstrasse 35 (passed away) in 1903 and then at Kernerstrasse 19 B.

illness

Already towards the end of 1902 Jessen suffered from the first symptoms of a mental illness. In spring 1903 he was placed under guardianship and admitted to the Bürgerhospital in Stuttgart. After his condition had improved, he spent the spring of 1904 convalescing with his parents in Itzehoe . Due to a serious relapse, his wife brought him back to Stuttgart in mid-1904 and had him admitted to the Christophsbad sanatorium in Göppingen . His illness was diagnosed as incurable according to the then state of medicine. Jessen died on January 8, 1906 at the age of only 38 in the Christophsbad and was buried on January 10. His wife survived him by a few decades, moved to Göppingen after she was bombed in Stuttgart in 1944, where she died in 1948. She was buried in the same grave as her husband (the grave has since been cleared).

literature

General

Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, pages 482–483, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon . Second volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960, pages 908–909.
Rudolf Krauss : Emmy Remolt. In: Bühne und Welt: magazine for theater, literature and music , 6th year, 1904, pages 732–736.
New theater almanac: theater-historical year and address book 1894–1906.

Individual evidence

↑ # Eisenberg 1903 .
↑ #Neuer theater almanac , address books of the city of Stuttgart.
↑ #Neuer theater almanac , address books of the city of Stuttgart.
↑ # E 18 VI Bu 146 .
↑ Information from the Göppingen cemetery administration.

personal data
SURNAME	Jessen, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 22, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Glückstadt , Holstein
DATE OF DEATH	January 8, 1906
Place of death	Goeppingen

[1] # Eisenberg 1903 .

[2] #Neuer theater almanac , address books of the city of Stuttgart.

[3] #Neuer theater almanac , address books of the city of Stuttgart.

[4] # E 18 VI Bu 146 .

[5] Information from the Göppingen cemetery administration.