Leopold Adler (director)
Leopold Adler ( March 5, 1850 in Eibenschütz , Austrian Empire - April 29, 1919 in Munich ) was an Austrian theater actor , dramaturge , theater director and writer .
Life
Adler was the son of the doctor Joachim Adler and Fanny Eisenschütz, his younger brother Guido Adler became a musicologist.
Adler was prepared for the stage career by Roderich Anschütz and Alexander Strakosch , which he began in Karlsbad as "Friedrich Schiller" in Heinrich Laubes Die Karlsschüler . After that he worked on several small theaters in Saxony. After working as a director in Riga, Breslau, at the Berlin Schillertheater (1894) and at the Stadttheater Leipzig (1896), he went in October 1902 as a dramaturge and director at the Royal Theater in Berlin. In 1909 he became director of the court theater in Braunschweig .
He was also active as a writer, his adaptations of Hermann Hölty's “Book of Job”, Ibsen's “Kaiser und Galiläer” (first performed in Meiningen with great success) and “The Peace Monument” should be mentioned. He also worked as a reciter. He last lived as a writer in Nymphenburg .
literature
- Adler, Leopold. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , p. 62.
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Paul List Verlag, Leipzig 1903, p. 1168 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Leopold Adler at juden-in-sachsen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dates of life deviating from the lexicon of German-Jewish authors: born on March 6th, died on April 21st
- ↑ a b Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors, 1992, p. 62
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adler, Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian theater actor, dramaturge, theater director and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eibenschütz , Austrian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1919 |
| Place of death | Munich |