Julius Berend
Julius Berend , actually Hermann Berend , ( October 20, 1820 in Berlin - March 24, 1904 in Hanover ) was a German ballet dancer , child actor , opera singer ( tenor ) and theater actor .
Life
Berend, the second son of a royal music inspector at the Berlin court theater , attended secondary school up to the tenth grade, but as a ten-year-old, before graduating from school, was a pupil in the ballet school of the royal theater, where he was employed in 1832 - he danced his first solo in the Ballet Bluebeard - and remained in this position for six years.
In 1838 he came to Stettin as a dancer, singer and actor (on the recommendation of Count von Rödern), after having repeatedly performed in Berlin at the lovers' theater “Urania”, in roles that he performed with Eduard Devrient , Louis Schneider and Charlotte von Hagn had rehearsed. In Stettin he worked as a young comedian and tenor buffo until 1846.
In 1846 Berend became a member of the court theater in Hanover after an examination before the court theater director and the court conductor Heinrich Marschner .
The artist, who never left this court theater (he served there under seven kings) and worked there for 55 years, celebrated his 25th, 50th and 60th anniversary on the stage there.
Berend was probably the oldest actor in Germany in his day and was decorated by the Kaiser on the occasion of his 80th birthday and made an honorary citizen of the city of Hanover . He performed in Hanover until his death.
Since 1860, Berend was also a member of the Hanover Art Association . His grave can be found in the Engesohde city cemetery .
His son Fritz Berend (* 1858) also became a singer and actor.
literature
- A. Decision: German stage almanac. Volume 37, 1873, pp. 105 f; online at Google Books
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 81, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
- Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography (in Gothic script ), Volume 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 ; Hanover: Sponholtz, 1912, p. 331.
- Deutsches Theater-Lexikon , Volume 1, p. 117.
- Hugo Thielen : BEREND, (3) Julius. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 50f; in the first edition on p. 51; online through Google Books
Web links
- Julius Berend at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 81, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d Hugo Thielen : BEREND, (3) Julius. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . P. 50f; in the first edition on p. 51; online through Google Books
Remarks
- ↑ Here Eisenberg probably means one of the Counts of Roden
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berend, Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berend, Hermann (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ballet dancer, child actor, opera singer (tenor) and theater actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 1904 |
| Place of death | Hanover |