Paul Dehnicke

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Bronze portrait relief of the actor Paul Dehnicke on his tombstone in Berlin-Kreuzberg (artist Albert Manthe )

Paul Dehnicke ( December 18, 1839 in Berlin - February 24, 1914 there ) was a German theater actor .

Life

Paul Dehnicke, son of the businessman Albert Dehnicke (February 27, 1813 - August 14, 1885) and his wife Auguste Dehnicke née. Humbert-Droz (January 3, 1816 - June 4, 1879), first worked for two years in a chemical factory and then took a job at a bank.

Not liking either one or the other, he decided to become an actor. He made his first attempt in Poznan. He then joined a traveling company with whom he traveled through northern Germany.

In 1862 he was engaged for a year at the ducal theater in Dessau, from 1863 in Berlin at the royal theater in Berlin, where he made his debut as "Bloom" in Rosenmüller and Finke . He stayed at the Schauspielhaus for 37 years until he left on May 28, 1900. Dehnicke was a member of the Association of the Königliches Schauspielhaus Berlin from 1863 to 1900 and was known as an “actor of elegant, humorous characters and distinguished bon vivants”. He was a committed member of the board of directors of the German Stage Members' Cooperative .

Grave of Paul Dehnicke in Berlin-Kreuzberg

After his resignation, he headed an institute for private performances.

At the same time he was co - founder with Eduard Schmidt-Weißenfels (as Knight Adonis) and an active member like Heinrich Oberländer and Albert Manthe of the humorous entertainment club " Schlaraffia Berolina ", founded in 1865 , which still exists today.

After a brief illness, Paul Dehnicke died on February 24, 1914 at the age of 74 in his apartment on Hornstrasse in Berlin . The funeral took place on February 27th in the castle hall of the "Schlaraffia", followed by the burial in the cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . Dehnicke rests there by his parents' side. A bronze medallion with the portrait of the dead in profile is attached to the front of the red-brown granite grave stele. Albert Manthe made it.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, Volume 26 , FA Guenther & Sohn 1915, p. 174.
  2. Small writings of the Society for Theater History , 1981, p. 13.
  3. Schlaraffia Berolina ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schlaraffia-berolina.de
  4. Paul Dehnicke † . In: Berliner Volks-Zeitung , February 25, 1914, morning edition, p. 2.
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 240.

Remarks

  1. Date of birth according to tombstone, Eisenberg writes 1840 .