Louis Ellmenreich
Louis Ellmenreich (born December 8, 1839 in Schwerin , † April 16, 1912 in Hanover ) was a German actor and director and theater director .
Life
family
Louis Ellmenreich came from the Ellmenreich family of actors, well-known in the 18th and 19th centuries . His great-grandfather was the singer Christian Brandl († 1795), his grandfather the actor Johann Baptist Ellmenreich (1770-1816), his grandmother the actress Friederike Ellmenreich née Brandl.
As the eldest of four children of Marie , née Lauber (1817-1888), and the singer and theater director Albert Ellmenreich (1816-1905), Louis was the brother of August Ellmenreich (1851-1928) and Franziska Ellmenreich (1847-1931) .
Career
Louis Ellmenreich was trained by his father before making his debut in Schwerin in 1856. While he initially appeared primarily as a youthful hero and lover, his later roles were primarily those of the first hero and the bon vivant .
Ellmenreich played on the stages of Görlitz , Riga , Bremen , Leipzig , Breslau and at the Victoria Theater in Berlin , as well as in Mainz , Mannheim , Freiburg im Breisgau and Danzig . In Danzig he became a member of the Masonic Lodge Eugenia crowned lion .
Around 1880 Louis Ellmenreich became a member of the ensemble of the Hoftheater in Hanover , appearing as such in both classical and modern stage plays.
From 1888 onwards, Ellmenreich also worked as a senior director at the Hanoverian court theater.
Archival material
An archive to and from Louis Ellmenreich be found, for example,
- a three-page letter from Louis Ellmenreich dated July 21, 1871 from Stettin to an unknown person, under the call number 52 in the State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky , recorded in the Kalliope network
literature
- Deutsches Theater-Lexikon , Vol. 1, p. 390
- Georg Fischer : Franziska Ellmenreich , Hanover: Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, 1919, especially pp. 18–39
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Hugo Thielen : Ellmenreich, (2) Louis. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 108; online through google books
- ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
- ↑ a b c Gisela Schwanbeck: Ellmenreich, Albert In: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 4 (1959), p. 459; online version as German biography
- ↑ DE-611-HS-803524
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ellmenreich, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, director and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwerin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1912 |
| Place of death | Hanover |