Karl Quanter

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Karl August Ludwig Quanter, portrait of Heinrich Ahrens (1805–1863)

Karl August Ludwig Quanter ( October 8, 1805 in Berlin - June 29, 1876 in Dresden ) was a German theater actor and director .

Life

The poverty of his early widowed mother did not prevent him from studying at the grammar school in the gray monastery and then at the university in his hometown. His enthusiasm for the theater put an end to his doubts as to whether he should devote himself to mathematics or construction. He gave up his studies as well as his private tutoring, and after he had trained in the private theater company "Urania", he began a wandering life in 1824 through small towns in Pomerania, Poznan and West Prussia. In Posen, his first station, he played among the Holberg-Kotzebue'schen political kettle pourers, to Anklam the "worm" in " Kabale und Liebe ". The Königsstädtisches Theater in Berlin also counted him among his own for a short time. He first found secure ground in 1827 in the Magdeburg City Theater , where he partly directed. Here he married the soubrette Therese Dietrich († November 18, 1833) on April 20, 1829 . He signed a second marriage on April 20, 1836 in Kassel, where he was the first intriguer and character actor in the electoral court theater from 1833 to 1841. His daughter Marie Quanter was born in 1840 during his time in Kassel . Negotiations with the court theater in Braunschweig failed due to the reluctance of the Hessian elector to dismiss this artist.

But he could not prevent Quanter from going to Dresden as Ludwig Ferdinand Pauli's successor .

Quanter was greatly alarmed by Bogumil Dawison's astonishing appearance in Dresden. With rousing passion he showed the audience a completely different Franz and Richard, and the audience let themselves be carried away. Quanter had to hand over role after role to the ingenious eccentric. That deeply upset him and made him sick. Even after Dawison was long gone, Quanter could no longer fully resume his old effectiveness, and in 1863 he withdrew into private life, almost blind. Here, too, fate hit him hard: his wife suffered from severe illness for years, his youngest son was killed in an American duel .

He was a total of 21 years (1842 until his retirement in 1863) with the royal. Hoftheater Dresden works.

For years he had been in lively correspondence with Franz von Dingelstedt , whom he was a close friend of his youth. Until his death, Quanter enjoyed a pension that was considerably increased by royal favor.

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personal data
SURNAME Quanter, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quanter, Karl August Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1876
Place of death Dresden