Josef Derossi
Josef Derossi , variants Joseph as first name and de Rossi as surname (* August 6, 1768 ; † December 18, 1841 ) was an Austrian actor and from 1818 the first operator of the Düsseldorf Theater .
Life
Josef Derossi began his theater career in 1786 with lover and batch roles that corresponded to his young age. In the following years he received arrangements at the theaters in Freiburg im Breisgau , Karlsruhe , Budapest , Innsbruck and Vienna . In 1815 he met the acting company of Caroline Müller , who performed from Düsseldorf in, among other places, Aachen and Cologne . Derossi joined her as an actor and director and now predominantly took on the roles of fathers and comical old people.
In the course of the early summer of 1817 Derossi resigned from the Müller Acting Society and founded his own theater company, which he headed as director, managing director and director. This also included the young Albert Lortzing and his later wife, the actress Rosina Regina Ahles . A year later, Derossi took over the city-owned former Bergische Nationalbühne in Düsseldorf as a tenant and from 1820 to 1822 hired the later theater director Friedrich Sebald Ringelhardt , who had previously worked as an actor in his ensemble, as co-director. Outside of his stage, Derossi and his theater company performed throughout the Rhineland for more than twenty years and celebrated great success at the Alten Komödienhaus Aachen , the Rumps Theaterlokal in Krefeld , Cologne and Elberfeld .
When setting up his repertoire, Derossi predominantly preferred the classical opera , as it was able to serve the tastes of the visitors and thus ensure higher income. He gained a special reputation here for the performances of Mozart's works , which were represented several times each season. On the other hand, not so popular drama classics such as plays by Schiller, Shakespeare, Moliere, Kleist and Goethe were rarely included in the program. Nevertheless, Derossi was unable to significantly improve the financial circumstances of his theater and therefore persistently refused to make the necessary repairs to the building, which he was actually contractually obliged to do as a tenant.
As early as the early 1820s, Derossi became aware of the early works of the writer Karl Immermann and performed them in Düsseldorf. With these plays, Immermann gave the theater new impulses from 1829 and his artistic concept of Immermann's model stage , which made theater history, was developed here. Income rose temporarily and the old theater was finally rebuilt in 1831/32. As a result, Immermann was appointed director of the Düsseldorf theater in 1834 and Derossi, who had meanwhile no longer developed into a sponsor but also, due to his schedule, had become Immermann's serious opponent for the time being. Three years later, however, Immermann also failed with his reform plans for financial reasons and Derossi took over the management of the theater again in 1837 and kept it until his death in 1841.
literature
- Karl Immermann: Letters in three volumes , Vol. III., Ed .: Peter Hasubek and Marianne Kreutzer, 1987, ISBN 978-3-446-12446-2 , pp. 765ff.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Derossi, Josef |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rossi, Joseph de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1768 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1841 |