Paul Brock (actor)
Paul Brock (born September 25, 1844 in Berlin ; † August 9, 1897 ) was a German theater actor and director .
Life
He did his first dramatic exercises on the Urania and Thalia practice stage and took the stage for the first time on January 3, 1855 as "Assessor Bittner" in the confessions at the court theater in Detmold. From 1868 to 1869 he worked at the City Theater in Königsberg and from 1871 to 1872 at the City Theater in Bremen, initially as a young lover, later as the first hero and lover. His reputation brought him a request from Heinrich Laube to the newly founded Stadttheater in Vienna, but he found no real ground there and so he preferred to obey a call to the court stage in Weimar in October 1872.
As early as 1876 he was appointed director, honored with a lifelong position in 1879 and appointed chief director in 1887.
He died on August 9, 1897 as a result of a serious stomach ailment.
He was not only considered a valuable pillar of the Weimar court theater, he also proved himself to be an eager and energetic member of the German Theater Members' Cooperative . Both a son and a daughter of the artist devoted themselves to the stage.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 129, ( digitized version ).
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| SURNAME | Brock, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1897 |