Ludwig Sternberg

Ludwig Sternberg (born November 14, 1857 in Friedland (Mecklenburg) ; † February 23, 1935 in Neubrandenburg ) was a German actor and, as a reciter, an important interpreter of the works of Fritz Reuters .

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Ludwig Sternberg was born as the son of the Friedländer master baker Johann Ludwig Theodor Sternberg (* 1829) and his wife Elise Sophie Friederike, born. Albrecht (* 1832), a farmer's daughter from Schwanbeck, was born. He attended the schools in his hometown, perhaps temporarily also the scholars' school in Friedland, but is not to be found among their high school graduates. Perhaps, following the family tradition, he should learn a trade, or he did. Details about this are not known.

At the age of 22 he began his artistic career as an actor at the Mecklenburg-Strelitzschen Hoftheater in Neustrelitz . Before Sternberg went to the Stadttheater in Barmen as a “director and character actor” , he gave his first “Reuter lecture” on August 21, 1891 in Neubrandenburg, and three days later in Friedland with great success.

Emil Rittershaus invited him to a writers' conference in Düsseldorf for a Reuter lecture, which led to further invitations in other cities in Rhineland-Westphalia. After that, Sternberg gave up his theater career, traveled as a Reuter reciter through Germany and abroad and gave a total of more than 4000 lecture evenings.

The Mecklenburg-Strelitz State Ministry awarded Sternberg the title of professor for his services.

Sternberg was buried in the New Cemetery in Neubrandenburg. Although Sternberg's tombstone is on the town's list of monuments, the grave site was mistakenly abandoned and the tombstone was removed and severely damaged. After this became known and public protests, the remains of Sternberg's tombstone were put back on the same spot on May 26, 2009.

literature

• Our Pommerland , Stettin 1935, issue 6.

Web links

• Literature about Ludwig Sternberg in the state bibliography MV