Karl Ulrichs

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Karl Ulrichs , also Carl Ulrichs (born June 23, 1863 in Hanover ; † May 30, 1934 in Osnabrück ) was a German theater actor , director and general manager .

Life

Ulrichs came from an old Hanoverian theater family, his father Theodor was theater director in Hanover for a long time. Karl Ulrichs devoted himself to the stage at an early stage and made his debut in Lübeck in 1879 as a “student” in “Faust”. In 1880 he went to Neustrelitz, was again in Lübeck in 1881, in Düsseldorf in 1882, in Frankfurt an der Oder in 1883, in Basel in 1885 and at the Dresden Residenztheater in 1886. He then worked for two years at the city theater in Posen, from 1889 to 1896 in Chemnitz and finally from 1896 at the court theater in Oldenburg, where he first worked as an actor, then as chief director and was appointed director of the court theater in 1899. In the ten years of his activity as artistic director under the artistic director Alexander Joseph von Radetzky-Mikulicz "many provocative contemporary authors were listed".

In 1909 Ulrichs was elected director of the Osnabrück City Theater . With his production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar , the new building of the Theater am Domhof was opened on September 29, 1909. From 1910 to 1917 Ulrich was also the director of the Minden City Theater and played on the stage there with the Osnabrück Ensemble. In 1925 Ulrichs retired for health reasons. He was an honorary member of the Landestheater Oldenburg and the Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück and celebrated his 50th anniversary on the stage in 1929.

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century . List, Leipzig 1903, p. 1058
  • Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Volume 42, 1931, p. 74
  • Karl-Heinz Neumann: Theater in Oldenburg: Essence and Becoming of a Northwest German Stage , Holzberg, Oldenburg 1982
  • 20 years City Theater Osnabrück. 1909-1929. Season 1929-1930. Invitation. With prefaces by the artistic directors Carl Ulrichs and Otto Liebscher, Liesecke, Osnabrück 1929

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Hoffmeyer: Chronicle of the City of Osnabrück , Meinders & Elstermann, Osnabrück 1982, p. 558
  2. ↑ a b The theater goes on. The 1910-1917 seasons under Carl Ulrichs from the Stadttheater Osnabrück ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Minden City Theater @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadttheater-minden.de
  3. ↑ a b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Volume 42, 1931, p. 74
  4. ↑ Georg Ruppelt : And the fact that you won my heart like this is all because you can write poetry like that !! Literary life in the 19th and early 20th centuries in Lower Saxony , zu Klampen, Springe 2002, ISBN 978-3-86674-092-1 , p. 88
  5. ↑ Reinhard Krollage: Theater in Osnabrück: "a foolhardy venture"; Osnabrück stage history 1771 to 1909; before the opening of the Haus am Domhof , Steinbacher, Osnabrück [2004], p. 126, 134
  6. ^ Dieter Zöchling: Opera houses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland: history, events, performers , Econ, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-612-10023-8 , p. 258
personal data
SURNAME Ulrichs, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulrichs, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor, director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1934
Place of death Osnabrück