Maximilian Moris

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Maximilian Moris (born February 2, 1864 in Moscow , † March 27, 1946 in Berlin ) was a German opera director and theater director.

Life

Maximilian Moris was the only son of the writer Laurian Moris and Marie-Antoinette, b. Franz. His first marriage was to the opera singer Klara Pählig , with whom he had four children, and his second marriage to Margarethe Schlemüller .

Maximilian Moris attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin and also received musical training. He also received dramatic lessons from Karl Jendersky in 1879 . Growing up in Moscow, Paris , Berlin and St. Petersburg , Moris first appeared as an actor in the theater. This was followed by vocal training in Paris. Afterwards Moris had engagements in Eisleben , Glauchau , Minden and Gera .

From 1899 he was also given directorial duties, first in Glogau , then in Lübeck , Nuremberg , Trier , Chemnitz , Basel , Brno and Linz . From 1900 he had a job at the Dresden Court Opera . Among other things, he staged the world premiere of Richard Strauss' Feuersnot and the German premiere of Puccini's opera Tosca . In 1905 he was hired by Hans Gregor as senior director for the Komische Oper in Berlin. Moris was responsible for 29 of the 44 productions at this theater over the next six years. The Komische Oper opened with Hoffmann's stories translated and arranged by Moris. This production was performed almost 600 times.

In 1911 Moris moved to the Elector's Opera as director . Although the world premiere of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's Schmuck der Madonna was successful there - the reviewer Arthur Neisser, for example, was “very satisfied with the performance, not just on the part of the director, who is a specialty of the former director of the comic opera and who is anyway assures the general sympathy of the Berlin audience ”- Moris soon gave up the management of this theater. This was commented on in the press with the words: “The end of this opera season also means the end of Mori's management in the Elector's Opera. Maximilian Moris didn't make it difficult for us to say goodbye to him. "

In 1913 he became deputy director and senior director of the Hamburg New Opera. This went bankrupt the following year, whereupon Moris took over the management of the Neue Oper, which from 1915 was called "Hamburger Volksoper", alone. Moris soon left this institution as well. From 1916 he directed a German front theater in Belgium. A few years followed, during which he took on guest productions in various countries, before he was director of the German National Theater in Weimar from 1923 to 1928 . From 1930 he directed the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, and from 1934 to 1939 he staged operas for the Theater der Jugend in Berlin.

Moris tried to transfer the principles of acting direction to the sung theater. He was one of the first opera directors whose work was reviewed by reviewers.

In the State Archives Ludwigsburg 18 VIII Bu 1064 is under the signature E's comic opera Robins end to the Eduard Künneke composed the music.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deviating from this year, which comes from the DNB, August Ludwig Degener says: Who is who? , Arani 1935, p. 1094 ( limited preview in the Google book search) to find the year 1869; Also Eisenberg indicates a different year of birth.
  2. ↑ According to the Neue Deutsche Biographie , this was in the German Theater in Moscow; according to an article on Moris' 75th birthday in the German Stage Yearbook , he had his first engagement at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . See FA Günther & Sohn AG: Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch . FA Günther & Sohn AG, 1940, p. 86 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Offenbach. Ein neue Hoffmann , in: Der Spiegel , February 12, 1958, pp. 43–45 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Arthur Neisser, The Madonna's Jewelry . Opera from the Neapolitan folk life in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. First performance at the Berlin Elector's Opera on December 28 , in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 79, 1912, p. 4 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Die Neue Weltbühne: weekly for politics, art, economy, Volume 11, Part 1: Die Neue Weltbühne . 1912, p. 587 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  6. ↑ Arne Langer, Moris, Maximilian , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 18 (1997), p. 133 f. [Online version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd116929170.html#ndbcontent
personal data
SURNAME Moris, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1946
Place of death Berlin