Peter Mittell

Peter Mittell ( 1769 in Mannheim - 1824 in Karlsruhe ) was a German theater actor and director .

Life

Mittell ran the bookbinding business like his father, but many evenings he escaped from his parents' house and stormed into the theater. The inclination to the stage soon made his business unbearable and big fights between father and son were the order of the day. And he called August Wilhelm Iffland on as a judge.

But this - advised against.

But even the judgment of this great master did not intimidate Mittell in his plans, he restlessly tried to improve everything in himself that Iffland found reprehensible and he worked tirelessly on his training.

One fine day he disappeared from home and finally found a small job on the stage in Ofen , but only for a short time. Soon afterwards, having returned to the Rhine, he joined the Bossan society.

Here he not only tied his sphere and the recognition that found his diligence and honest pursuit, but also the stepdaughter of its director Friedrich Wilhelm Bossann , Dorothea . In 1793 the marriage bond was made, and when his father-in-law took over the management of the court theater in Dessau in 1797 , he also became a member of this court theater, and shortly afterwards even a director. When this theater was dissolved in 1810, he followed a call to Karlsruhe, where on November 1st of the same year he became the founder and first director of the Grand Ducal Badischer Hoftheater.

There he made himself particularly popular both as a director and as an actor. His services as a director outweighed those of the actor. He died in 1824.

His son was the actor Karl Mittell , his grandson the actor Carl Mittell .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 681, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

See also

• Mittell (artist family)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Richter:  Bossan, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 482 f. ( Digitized version ).

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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