Julius von Werther

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Julius von Werther (born May 20, 1838 in Roßla ; † July 23, 1910 in Pertisau ) was a German theater actor, director and Privy Councilor.

He was a son of Karl von Werther . He attended grammar school in Berlin, studied mining, and received his doctorate in geognostics in 1862.

Career

Heinrich Laube and the actor Heinrich Anschütz induced him to devote himself to the stage and he took acting lessons in Vienna. Until the end of 1867 he worked as an actor and later as a director under Franz von Dingelstedt's direction in Weimar. During this time he published a number of articles in the Berliner Nationalzeitung , which brought about his appointment as artistic director of the Hof- und Nationaltheater Mannheim from 1871 to 1873 .

In 1875 his artistic direction no longer corresponded to the taste of the Grand Duke, he retired and lived in Munich as a private citizen, but was again appointed artistic director to Mannheim in autumn 1877, in which position he remained until 1884. His theater management was characterized by the complete care of classicism and as a result he was appointed director of the court theater in Darmstadt in 1878 with the character of a councilor.

From November 1884 to 1890 he was general director of the Stuttgart court theater as successor to Feodor von Wehl , was appointed Privy Councilor in 1885 and adorned with the personal nobility in 1886 by being awarded the Order of the Württemberg Crown .

From 1890 he had his permanent residence in Munich, where he became an opponent of modernism and worked on Molière .

Works

  • The learned women , comedy, Les Femmes svantes, adapted from Molière , 1870
  • Mazarin, drama, 1871
  • Pombal, drama, 1871, Prime Minister Marqués de Pombal, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello
  • The grave monument, play, 1873
  • The Medici, Tragedy, 1874
  • The Prince of Isola bella, play in four acts, 1876
  • The war plan, historical drama, 1876
  • Disappointments: Drama in 4 acts 1880
  • Wide conscience. Drama, 1880 Leipzig. Literature, drama, 1879
  • Cornelia, play, 1886
  • The Misantroph, Comedy by Molière edited for the German stage, 1887
  • A decent woman, Roman, 1896
  • A Hohenzoller in Italy, Roman, 1898
  • Memories and experiences of an old court theater manager, published by his son in 1911

Individual notes

  1. ↑ "Das Grabdenkmal", play by Dr. Julius Werther, is based on an episode from the life of Michel Angelo. Hermann Grimm tells in his interesting book about Michel Angelo that the mighty Pope Julius II. Michel Angelo
  2. ^ Franz Brümmer, Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the nineteenth century to the present. Leipzig, 1913, p. 474 p. 474
  3. ↑ Ed. Ingrid Bigler-Marschall, Deutsches Theater Lexikon,  p. 3271
personal data
SURNAME Werther, Julius von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Rossla
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1910
Place of death Pertisau