Karl Seydelmann
Karl Seydelmann , also Carl Seydelmann , (born April 24, 1793 in Glatz , Grafschaft Glatz , † March 17, 1843 in Berlin ) was a German theater actor .
Life
Karl Seydelmann was born as the son of a wealthy grocer and café owner. He attended high school in his hometown and joined the army in 1810 to begin a military career, but broke it off in 1815. Together with Karl von Holtei , whose friend he became, he began his stage career in 1816 at the Grafenort Castle Theater , which was run by the art-loving Count Joseph von Herberstein .
After a job at the Breslau City Theater, he spent a long time studying and traveling: in 1819 he worked at the theater in Graz, in 1820 at the theater in Olomouc and in 1821 at the regional theater in Prague. From 1822 to 1828 he played at the electoral theater in Kassel and in 1829 became a member of the Stuttgart court theater, where he was also head of the dramaturgical school. From here guest tours to Breslau, Weimar, Berlin, Darmstadt and Düsseldorf followed. From 1835 he made regular guest appearances in Berlin, in 1838 he was engaged for the Prussian court theater and appointed court actor. From Berlin he also made numerous guest tours through Germany and Switzerland.
Seydelmann helped realistic acting to break through in Germany. He was anxious to improve his high level of acting talent.
On January 9, 1843 - already seriously ill - he appeared for the last time as a Wellenberger in Iffland's lawyers . His childhood friend Karl von Holtei visited him shortly before his death. Karl Seydelmann died on March 17, 1843 at the age of less than 50 in Berlin and was buried in the local St. Hedwig cemetery on Liesenstrasse . The tomb has not been preserved.
His grandson was the actor Armin Seydelmann .
Roles (selection)
- Mephistopheles ( Faust. A tragedy , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe )
- Nathan ( Nathan the Wise , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing )
- Franz Moor ( The Robbers , Friedrich Schiller)
- Don Carlos ( Don Carlos , Friedrich Schiller)
- Antonio ( The Merchant of Venice , William Shakespeare )
- Oliver Cromwell (The Royalists, Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach )
- Prince Friedrich Arthur von Homburg ( Prince Friedrich von Homburg or the Battle of Fehrbellin , Heinrich von Kleist )
- Hermann Gessler ( Wilhelm Tell , Friedrich Schiller)
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 963 ff., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Erich A. Franz: At home in the Silesian region. Stories and incidents. Laumann Verlag, Dülmen 1987, ISBN 3-87466-007-9 .
- Paul Preis: Music and theater life in the city and district of Glatz. Grafschafter Bote, Lüdenscheid 1967.
- City of Glatz. 1967, pp. 84-85.
- Oskar Wilda: Karl Seydelmann. In: Friedrich Anderae (Ed.): Silesians of the 17th to 19th centuries (Schlesische Lebensbilder; Vol. 3). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1985, ISBN 3-7995-6193-5 (reprint of the Breslau 1928 edition).
- Paul Schlenther : Seydelmann, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 86-92.
- August Lewald: Seydelmann: a memory book for his friends. Göpel, Stuttgart 1841 ( digitized version ).
- Heinrich Theodor Rötscher : Seydelmann's life and work. Duncker, Berlin 1845 ( digitized ).
- S. Troitzkij: Konrad Ekhof, Ludwig Schröder, August Wilhelm Jffland, Johann Friedrich Fleck, Ludwig Devrient, Karl Seydelmann: The beginnings of realistic acting. Henschel, Berlin 1949.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seydelmann, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seydelmann, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1793 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glatz , County Glatz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1843 |
| Place of death | Berlin |