Jacques Goldberg
Jacques Goldberg (born January 16, 1861 in Braunschweig ; died September 26, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German musician , actor , director and theater director .
Life
His parents were Hirsch Goldberg (July 12, 1807 in Wollstein - June 10, 1893 in Braunschweig), prayer leader for the Braunschweig Jewish community and his wife Marianne (Golda Miriam), born Rothgießer (August 31, 1818 in Fraustadt - January 5, 1894 in Leipzig ). He had three siblings: Albert (June 8, 1847 in Braunschweig - November 1, 1906 in Leipzig), opera director and singer and conductor, Golde Georgine (born May 28, 1850) and Joseph Julius (born April 18, 1856). The theater director and screenwriter Heinz Goldberg was his nephew.
Goldberg received musical training as a violinist as a child and came to the United States at the age of sixteen , where he played in the orchestra of Cincinnati and other major cities in North America . Returned from there in 1880, he worked as an actor and later as a director on German-speaking stages, such as the Court Theater Coburg-Gotha and the State Theater in Prague . Around 1895 Goldberg was apparently a director at the Royal German City Theater in Prague . He also worked at the city theaters in Magdeburg , Bremen , Essen, Hamburg , Krefeld and Mainz . In Prague he staged the stage world premiere of Richard Wagner's Die Feen as chief director . In 1896 Goldberg was appointed director of the city theater in Stettin . After he ended his engagement there in 1900, Goldberg first performed Tristan und Isolde at the St. Georges Hall Theater in London , after which he gave a guest performance at the Theater des Westens in Berlin. Goldberg's further engagements were 1905/1906 stage director at the Metropolitan Opera , 1906 Düsseldorf , 1907 artistic director of the city theater in Colmar (Théâtre Municipal de Colmar), 1910 director and chief director of the Royal Court Opera in Stockholm , 1913 chief director of the Quinlan- Opera in London, 1918/1919 chief director at the City Theater in Elberfeld , and 1919/1920 chief director of the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki . His comedy “Your Ideal” has been performed repeatedly.
plant
- with Wild-Queisner: your ideal. Comedy.
Awards
- Royal Swedish Vasa Order I class.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? Contemporary Lexicon . Verlag von HA Ludwig Degener, IV edition, Leipzig 1909, p. 462.
- Herrmann AL Degener: Who's it 1935. Xth edition. Verlag Hermann Degener, Berlin 1935, p. 513 f.
- Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE). 2nd edition, Volume 4 Görres – Hittorp, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-25034-7 , p. 25.
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Jacques Goldberg . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 337 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE). 2nd edition, volume 4. Görres – Hittorp, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-25034-7 , p. 25.
- ↑ Reinhard Bein : You lived in Braunschweig. Biographical notes on the Jews buried in Braunschweig (1797 to 1983). In: Messages from the Braunschweig City Archives. No. 1, Döring Druck, Braunschweig 2009, ISBN 978-3-925268-30-4 , p. 295.
- ↑ a b c Reinhard Bein: You lived in Braunschweig. Biographical notes on the Jews buried in Braunschweig (1797 to 1983). P. 302.
- ^ Goldberg Family theatrical - Internet Archive
- ↑ a b c d e Herrmann AL Degener: Wer ist's 1935. Xth edition, Verlag Hermann Degener, Berlin 1935, p. 513 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goldberg, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician, actor, director and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1934 |
| Place of death | Berlin |