Otto von Schimmelpfennig

Otto von Schimmelpfennig , completely Baron Otto Schimmelpfennig von der Oye , pseudonym Otto Düringsfeld (* 1838 in Wreschen , † July 29, 1912 in Charlottenburg ) was a German theater actor and director .

origin

His parents were the major general, most recently Colonel a. D., Otto Ferdinand Schimmelpfennig von der Oye (* September 17, 1794; † October 11, 1869) and his wife Natalie von Frankenberg-Proschlitz (* June 13, 1811; † August 16, 1841). His mother was a cousin of the writer Ida von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld .

Life

Little is known about Schimmelpfennig. He was in the East Prussian Cuirassier Regiment No. 3 for three years and was released as a commoner. In the German War of 1866 he was drafted into the reserve of the Silesian Cuirassier Regiment No. 1, but did not take part in any combat.

In the 1860s he worked as a lover and bon vivant in Leipzig and at the court theaters of Coburg-Gotha and Munich. In 1879 and 1880 he was also the artistic director of the Residenztheater in Berlin. He was married to the actress Mathilde Mallinger from 1890 , their daughter Marie became known as an actress by the family name of her mother.

Otto von Schimmelpfennig died in 1912 at the age of 73 or 74 years. He was buried in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Charlottenburg (today's Westend district of Berlin ). The grave has not been preserved.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 635, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Latest news from the field of politics: 1868, p.16

Individual evidence

1. ^ Charlottenburg registry office j. Berlin II, death certificate 527/1912 from July 30, 1912
2. ^ Mathilde Mallinger at Operissimo  based on the Great Singer Lexicon
3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 480.