Jean Baptist Baison

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Jean Baptist Baison , also Jean Baptiste Baison (born October 24, 1812 in Hattersheim , † January 13, 1849 ) was a German theater actor , director and writer .

Life

Baison, the grandson of a wealthy French émigré, was raised excessively strict by his parents. So he had to bow first to his father's wish and should become a priest. From the Mainz high school he came to the episcopal seminary.

Driven by an indomitable inclination for the theater, he secretly escaped in February 1831 and initially played under the name "Frühling" for a traveling troupe. He wandered through Germany and Switzerland as an actor, chorister, prompter and theater worker, and he was already beginning to doubt whether his career choice had been the right one when he met Amalie Haizinger , who advocated him.

In 1833 he celebrated his first successes in Lauchstädt and Magdeburg.

"Jean Baptist Baison", collective grave city ​​theater ,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

From there he went to Danzig as a director in 1834 and was engaged in 1835 under Friedrich Ludwig Schmidt's direction at the Stadttheater in Hamburg. Here he married the actress Caroline Sutorius (1810-1875) in 1836 , so he was also the brother-in-law of Auguste Sutorius and Schwipp-brother of Theodor Döring .

In 1837 he made a major tour to Berlin, Breslau, Dresden, Prague and Vienna. In 1838 he accepted a job at the Dresden court theater, which, however, did not offer him a sufficient sphere of activity alongside Emil Devrient . He therefore returned to Hamburg, appointed by Schmidt. After his death in 1841 he left his position again and gained a good reputation in Frankfurt am Main. In 1844 he came to Hamburg for the third time. After the resignation of the Mühling - Cornet management , he took over the management of the Hamburg City Theater with Chéri Maurice , later with Josef Wurda . In 1848 Baison fell seriously ill with a hot fever that brought him to death.

Jean Baütiste Baison is commemorated in the area of ​​the “Althamburg Memorial Cemetery” of Hamburg's Ohlsdorf Cemetery on the left half of the double collective tombstone “City Theater”.

Contemporary reception

"B. was an educated artist and director, devoted to the new literature that turned to the theater. He was personally friends with Gutzkow , Prutz, and Gottschall , and with advice and deeds promoted their dramatic and dramaturgical activity. He also began to assert himself as a writer when death set a goal for his still hopeful life. He was a fiery actor, gifted with expressive features and a beautiful speech organ, of heroic and amateur roles, to whom he knew how to give a more theatrical stamp than the usual practice entailed. If fate had granted it a longer lifespan, it would undoubtedly have become of great importance for the development of German drama. His way of playing marked a similar contrast to Emil Devrient ’s idealizing-declamatory manner , as it was later sharply developed by Dawison . "

- August Förster : ADB: Baison, Jean Baptiste

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ family register Mainz 1760-1900, p. 65, No. 519
  2. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 207, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ August Förster:  Baison, Jean Baptiste . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 775 f.
personal data
SURNAME Baison, Jean Baptist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baison, Jean Baptiste (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor, director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Hattersheim
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1849