Max Martersteig

Max Martersteig (1853-1926)

Max Martersteig (born February 11, 1853 in Weimar , † November 3, 1926 in Cologne ) was a German theater actor , writer and stage manager .

Life

Martersteig began his acting training with Otto Devrient . He made his stage debut in 1873 as "Charles VII" in The Maiden of Orléans . This was followed by engagements in Rostock, Frankfurt an der Oder (1875–1876), Weimar (1876–1879), Mainz (1879–1880), Aachen (1880–1881) and Kassel (1882–1885). In 1885 he became chief director and artistic director of the theater in Mannheim. In 1890 he left Mannheim and went to Riga where he was theater director until 1896. In 1905 he was head of the theater in Cologne and then until 1918 in Leipzig.

Max Martersteig - grave slab at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

He was also active as a playwright and theater historian. In 1904 his work The German Theater in the 19th Century came out, which is considered fundamental.

Max Martersteig was married to the actress Gertrud Eysoldt , their son was the conductor and composer Leo Eysoldt .

His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 20 in E). The barely legible grave slab depicts a genius of death and bears a dedicating inscription.

In 1968 Martersteigstrasse in Cologne-Seeberg was named after him.

Works

In the pavilion 1878
Jelta et al. Ruben 1881
From Hesse's prehistory, 1884
The Actor, an Artistic Problem 1893 (1900 reissue)
Giovanni Segantini . Bard, Marquardt & Co., Berlin 1903
The German theater in the nineteenth century. A cultural-historical account 1904, 2nd edition 1924
The Evening Book 1927
Werner von Kuonefalk , Verlag von AG Liebeskind, Leipzig, 1886

literature

Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 646, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Rolf Badenhausen : Martersteig, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 271 f. ( Digitized version ).
Gertrud Eysoldt: The beautiful pattern of our experience. Letters to Max Martersteig . Berlin 2002
Wolfgang Greiner: Max Martersteig, the stage manager and writer . Emsdetten 1938

Web links

Literature by and about Max Martersteig in the catalog of the German National Library
Katy Schlegel: Martersteig, Max . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
Max Martersteig Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin

Individual evidence

^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history. Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 202 .
^ Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne Street Names Lexicon , 3rd exp. Ed., Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2016/17, p. 549.

personal data
SURNAME	Martersteig, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theater actor, writer and stage manager
DATE OF BIRTH	February 11, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weimar
DATE OF DEATH	November 3, 1926
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history. Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 202 .

[2] Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne Street Names Lexicon , 3rd exp. Ed., Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2016/17, p. 549.