Johannes Wiegand

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Johannes Wiegand (born July 27, 1874 in Bremen , † February 7, 1940 in Bremen) was a German teacher and theater director .

biography

Playhouse in the new town
Theater on Goetheplatz

Wiegand was the son of an art and trade gardener. He first completed the Rembertischule and then the Bremen teachers' seminar . In 1897 he passed the teacher examination. From 1900 to 1910 he taught at the school on Lessingstrasse. He also dealt with literature, wrote theater reviews for the Bremer Nachrichten since 1898 and then took over the management of the newspaper's literary criticism. From 1903 to 1910 he was also general secretary of the Goethebund in Bremen.

In 1910 Wiegand and the theater scholar Eduard Ichon founded the Bremer Schauspielhaus , which was initially located in the Tonhalle (a concert hall built in 1853, later the modern one ) on Neustadtswall in Bremer Neustadt, which was converted according to plans by Joseph Ostwald from 1908 . Wiegand was the first director, Ichon worked as a director . The house especially cultivated modern drama , but also played classical tragedies . From 1912 to 1913, a new theater building was built under her direction at Ostertor ( Am Wall ) according to plans by architects August Abbehusen and Otto Blendermann : the core of the theater on Goetheplatz in Bremen. Operations in the house in the Neustadt ceased in 1917. The theater managed without public subsidies, but also had to survive several crises.

In 1925 the theater company acquired the Villa Ichon building , which was located directly behind the theater. Wiegand lived in the villa from 1925 to 1940.

After Wiegand's death, Ichon took over the management of the entire theater from 1940 until his death in 1943, which was then taken over by the city of Bremen and burned out in 1944.

Stage plays

  • War, drama, 1906 (together with Wilhelm Scharrelmann )
  • Die Heilige Not, play, 1914 (together with Wilhelm Scharrelmann)

See also

literature

personal data
SURNAME Wiegand, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1940
Place of death Bremen