Richard Dornseiff

Richard Dornseiff (born September 25, 1886 in Frankfurt am Main , German Reich , † April 7, 1958 in Mannheim , Germany ) was a German theater actor , director and director .

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Dornseiff attended the Hoch Conservatory in his native Frankfurt and received his artistic training from Max Bayrhammer . His first engagement took the 19-year-old to the Bonn City Theater, where he was given important roles right from the start, such as Don Karlos , Melchthal in Wilhelm Tell , Ferdinand in Kabale und Liebe , Mortimer in Schiller's Maria Stuart , Goethe's Clavigo and Kleists Prince von Homburg , the bell-founder Heinrich in Hauptmann's Die sunken Glocke , Hans in Halbe's youth and King Karl VII in Die Jungfrau von Orleans , again a Schiller piece.

Richard Dornseiff's other theater stations were the Konstanz City Theater in 1906/07, the Heilbronn City Theater in 1907/08, the Liegnitz City Theater in 1908/09, the Regensburg City Theater in 1909/10 and the Munich Volkstheater from 1911 to 1914. When the war broke out in 1914, Dornseiff was drafted, but was able to resume stage work as an occupying soldier in 1917/18 at the Deutsches Theater in Bucharest. Back in civilian life, Dornseiff went in 1918 to the Rhenish-Westphalian Association stage Dusseldorf before it to the 1919 Louise Dumont was called out Schauspielhaus Dusseldorf. Dornseiff was also able to direct this for the first time in the next two years. In 1921 he moved to the Recklinghausen City Theater, where Dornseiff worked as both director and opera director. After only one season he left and also became theater director in Herne. In 1923/24 he worked again as an opera director at the City Theater of Hamburg before he took over the management of the Schauspielhaus in Hagen for two years in 1924.

For the 1927/28 season Richard Dornseiff moved to Altona to take over the management of the local theater. This was followed by engagements in the same position at the Mannheim National Theater (from 1929 to 1934), the Cologne Municipal Theaters (1934 to 1936) and the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart (1936 to 1941). During the Second World War, Dornseiff was acting director at the municipal theaters of Bremen (1941 to 1944). In 1945, Dornseiff resumed his post-war activities as Bremen's opera director. Dornseiff's last professional activity was that of the artistic director of the Mannheim National Theater, where he worked for three years (1947 to 1950). Richard Dornseiff then retired, but remained in the city until his death.

literature

• Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 40.
• Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, first volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1954, p. 345
• Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 128.

Web link

• Richard Dornseiff on books.google.de