Karl August Lebrun

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Karl August Lebrun , also Carl August Lebrun (born October 8, 1792 in Halberstadt , † July 25, 1842 in Hamburg ) was a German actor and playwright.

Life

Karl August Lebrun - son of a French Reformed preacher - was of Huguenot descent. After the father's death, the mother and the children settled with relatives in Berlin . It was there that Lebrun discovered his interest in the theater; Especially at the court theater he was enthusiastic about Iffland's productions and Beschort's performances.

Lebrun was actually supposed to receive a commercial training, but since the actor Franz Christian Labes also supported him in his efforts to gain a foothold in the theater, his family also allowed this. With Labes' help, Lebrun was able to make his successful debut at the age of seventeen in the role of the page in the play Pagenstreich at the Anhalt Theater in Dessau , where he became the protégé of the actor Peter Mitte. After the cessation of the theater in 1810, Lebrun was engaged by the city theater in Memel .

Grave slab Lebrun , tomb – open-air museum Heckengarten
"Karl August Lebrun", collective grave city ​​theater , Ohlsdorf cemetery

In Memel Lebrun was able to place himself successfully as an actor and as a writer. This was followed by guest appearances in Tilsit , Libau and Mitau . In 1812 Franz Ignaz von Holbein brought him to the Würzburg Theater . He remained there until 1815 and then spent two years at the City Theater of Mainz . In 1817 he was brought to the Apollo Theater in Hamburg . There he was soon able to surpass star Jakob Herzfeld with his skills. He soon saw Lebrun as his successor and recognized this without envy. In 1818 Lebrun moved from the Apollo Theater to the Hamburg City Theater . In 1822 Karl August Lebrun and the actress Caroline Steiger married in Hamburg. The marriage produced the daughters Louise (* 1822), Antonie (* 1823) and Julinka (* 1825), who also became actresses.

At the end of 1826 - after the death of Jakob Herzfeld - the city of Hamburg offered Lebrun together with Friedrich Ludwig Schmidt the management of the New Theater Hamburg . Lebrun thereupon refused an obligation to the court theater in Vienna and acts as director of the Hamburg city theater with effect from April 1, 1827. He held this office together with FL Schmidt until the end of March 1837.

Then Karl August Lebrun resigned all offices and obligations and retired into private life. Until the end of his life he was only active as a writer. After recovering from an illness, he was able to accompany his daughter Antonie to her engagement at the Deutsches Theater in Riga . During this trip, he relapsed with paralysis in both legs.

The original grave slab for "Carl August Lebrün / his wife / children and grandchildren / with 25 years of rest / 1842" is in the open-air tomb museum in Heckengarten at Ohlsdorf cemetery .
To “Carl August Lebrun 1792–1842” and “Caroline Johanna Marianne Lebrun geb. Steiger 1800–1883 ​​”is also remembered in the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery on the left half of the double collective grave slab of the City Theater (located immediately to the left of the collective grave slab Thalia Theater ).

Works (selection)

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  • Number 777 .
  • The triplets .
  • I am never wrong .
  • The misogynist .
  • History of the Hamburg city theater (remained unfinished; only the 1st volume appeared).
editor

For the most part, it was French plays by Baudouin d'Aubigny , Louis-Benoît Picard and Eugène Scribe , which he edited to meet the needs of the German stage and the German audience. He was therefore compared to August von Kotzebue .

editor

Roles (selection)

Lebrun was one of the distinctive actors of the old classical school; he did particularly well in fine-comic character roles, for example as

  • Page in Page pranks ( August von Kotzebue )
  • Hanswurst in Simon Lämmchen (Karl August Lebrun)
  • Felix True in The Careless Liar (Friedrich Ludwig Schmidt).

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Last home address "Lebrun, Carl, Acting Director, first Fehlandstrasse no 20", 1842, in: Hamburg address book at the Hamburg State Library
  2. ^ Grave slab in the hedge garden , Ohlsdorf cemetery
personal data
SURNAME Lebrun, Karl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lebrun, Carl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1842
Place of death Hamburg