Johann Jakob Ihlée

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Johann Jakob Ihlée (born on October 8, 1762 in Elmarshausen in Hesse ; died on July 11, 1827 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German writer , theater director and librettist .

Life

Ihlée was the son of a bailiff. Due to the early death of his father, he had to drop out of school and learn the craft of trimmers in Kassel . From Kassel he went on a hike and sometimes experienced difficult times. Finally he came near Frankfurt, probably to Hanau , where he came into contact with the theater. He settled in Frankfurt, acquired citizenship there and in 1793 married the master trimmers daughter Anna Magdalena Petsch. He had passed the master's examination as a posemantist shortly before, but would hardly be active in this profession.

At this point in time, he had already been an employee of the Frankfurt National Theater, founded in 1792, for a year and a half . He worked there in the most varied of positions, first as a prompter, then as a cashier, secretary and librettist. From 1805 to 1813 he ran the theater together with the music director Carl Joseph Schmitt, which at that time was licensed to a stock corporation, on his own account and brought it to artistic bloom as well as economic success. This success prompted the shareholders to take the lead again themselves, but the positive results did not want to continue. Ihlée remained the theater's artistic director until his death at the age of 64.

Ihlée is significant in terms of theater history thanks to his numerous translations and free adaptations of French and Italian works as well as some of his own works, which Ihlée was just as exemplary in southern Germany as Karl Alexander Herklots in the north. His diary from the capture of Frankfurt by the New Franks up to the reconquest by the combined army (1793) is still of interest today as a source text, but the author of the ADB article in 1905 was no longer able to follow his French hatred, which was motivated by excessive patriotism . He also published two volumes of poetry (1789 and 1791), encouraged and supported by Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim . He was a freemason, brother speaker of the Frankfurt "Lodge Zur Einigkeit" and published as such Masonic speeches and lodge songs. An edition of the works left behind in three volumes (poems, dramaturgicals, Masonic speeches) announced for 1828 has apparently never appeared.

Works

Regarding the bibliographical information on the stage works, translations and arrangements of operas and singspiele, it must be taken into account that due to the numerous reprints and stage prints at that time, it cannot generally be guaranteed that the edition given is the earliest. Often there are also approximately simultaneous editions with slightly different titles.

Stage works
Translations and edits

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  • Fragment of an autobiography of the theater director II Ihlee, who died on July 11, 1827 (from his handwritten estate). In: Iris. Entertainment sheet for friends of the beautiful and useful. Ed. by Ludwig Börne . 1827, p. 226 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Ihlée, Johann Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, theater director and librettist
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmarshausen , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1827
Place of death Frankfurt am Main