Johann Friedrich Hellmuth
Johann Friedrich Anton Hellmuth ( 1744 in Braunschweig or Wolfenbüttel - July 24, 1785 in Schwedt / Oder ) was a German singer, theater actor and composer .
Life
Hellmuth was the son of the chamber musician at the ducal court of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel Johann Martin Hellmuth. From 1757 he attended the Johanneum in Hamburg and worked from 1766 to 1767 as a répétiteur for theater director Conrad Ernst Ackermann. He then traveled with the theater companies of Joseph Felix von Kurz , Franz Joseph Sebastiani and Theobald Hilarius Marchand. On February 26, 1770, he married his colleague Maria Franziska Wolff in Mainz . From 1778 to 1781 Hellmuth directed the electoral court theater in Bonn together with Gustav Friedrich Großmann . He then gave guest performances with his wife in various cities until he was given a permanent position at the margravial court theater in Schwedt in the spring of 1785.
Hellmuth is the father of the actress Marianne Hellmuth ; his younger siblings are Carl Christian Hellmuth and Johann Georg Gottlob Hellmuth .
literature
- Jürgen Neubacher: Georg Philipp Telemann's Hamburg church music and its performance conditions (1721–1767) . Olms, 2009, p. 426.
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Johann Friedrich Hellmuth . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 414 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Remarks
- In older literature, Johann Friedrich Hellmuth and Carl Christian Hellmuth are often confused or mixed up with one another.
- ↑ The third first name is only shown in the marriage entry.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hellmuth, Johann Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hellmuth, Johann Friedrich Anton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor and founder of an actor society |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1744 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig or Wolfenbüttel |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1785 |
| Place of death | Schwedt / Oder |