Karl Friedrich Abbot

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Karl Friedrich Abt , also Karl Friedrich Abbt , actually Johann Daniel Dettenrieder or GG Dettenrieder (* 1743 in Stuttgart , † November 20, 1783 in Bremen ) was a German theater actor and director .

Life

Abbot began his theater career in southern Germany in 1764 by founding a traveling company with which he traveled through Swabia and Franconia. His wife Felicitas (1746 in Biberach - 1783 in Goettingen), with whom he made Biberach blown , he was also trained as an actress. In 1772 he opened his own stage in The Hague with the support of the court . There he mainly performed German stage plays in translation: Romeo and Juliet by Christian Felix Weisse , Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and others. In 1773 he converted his theater into a traveling stage and traveled through Holland. On his return to Hague, he was ruined by a competitor and moved to Haarlem , where he was supported by friends from Amsterdam . In the following years, Abt moved from place to place with his stage. He stayed in the vicinity of Amsterdam, in Noordholland , but was not allowed to hold any performances in the city itself.

For health reasons he soon had to give up his self-employment and also worked as an actor for private individuals. From 1776 he also lost these orders and moved to Münster with a newly assembled theater company (guest performances in Göttingen , Hanover and Bremen ). After losing his management in Münster (1780), he moved back to the aforementioned cities with a new troop. In Bremen he played from 1780 to 1783 in the Komödienhaus at the Reithaus Am Wall . After his death, the city administration in Bremen took over the care of his family. He was buried in the choir of the Catholic Church of St. Johann in Bremen .

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