Moritz Ernst (actor)

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Moritz Ernst , actually Moritz Menner (born October 13, 1826 in Vienna , † June 19, 1900 in Frankfurt am Main ) was an Austrian actor and theater director .

Life

Moritz Ernst was the son of the Viennese tradesman Joseph Menner and Caroline Menner geb. Suddenly. He was trained for the stage by the well-known actor Heinrich Anschütz . Moritz Ernst worked as an actor at theaters in Vienna, Olmütz, Mainz, Frankfurt am Main, Weimar and Hanover in amateur roles , as a bon vivant , hero and character actor.

He then worked as theater director in Mainz in 1856, in Nuremberg in 1859, in Würzburg from 1860 to 1863, in Cologne from 1863 to 1869, in Hamburg from 1869 to 1871, then in Berlin from 1871 (Hofoper) and again at Cologne from 1875 to 1881 City Theatre. From 1883 to 1886 and from 1889 to 1896 he worked in the same position in Aachen. In 1897 he retired from the stage.

Ernst was married to the actress and director Karoline Köthe (1821-1897) since 1847 . However, he probably also had a tendency towards homosexuality, since in 1861 his partner, the 27-year-old language teacher Christian Denis from Flétrange , was admitted by the Royal District Court in Würzburg in absentia for "fornication" and "continued crime of abuse of private legal force through seduction into fornication" was sentenced to eight years working house sentence.

Moritz Ernst died on June 19, 1900 as a widowed theater director a. D. at his residence in Frankfurt am Main in the Doctor Bockenheimer Clinic .

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch: Deutsches Theater-Lexikon , Volume 1, Kleinmayr: Klagenfurt 1953

swell

  1. ^ A. Heinrich (Ed.), Deutscher Bühnen-Almanach , 20th year, Berlin 1856, p. 281.
  2. ^ A. Heinrich (Ed.), Deutscher Bühnen-Almanach , 23rd year, Berlin 1859, p. 296.
  3. ↑ Jacob Schaefer, The old and the new city theater in Fuerth , 1902.
  4. ↑ Dr. Hermann Uhde, Das Stadttheater in Hamburg 1827-1877 , Stuttgart 1879, p. 561
  5. ↑ Joseph Walterscheid, Das Bonner Theater im Nineteenth Century (1797 to 1914) , 1959, p. 80.
  6. ^ Supplement to the district gazette of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg of November 4, 1861, No. 249, columns 3301–3302.
  7. ↑ Frankfurt am Main death register from June 19, 1900, page 231, No. 2025/1900.
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menner, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1900
Place of death Frankfurt am Main