Rudolph Genée

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Rudolph Genée
Rudolph Genée
Genées memoir Times and People (1897)

Rudolph Heinrich Genée (he called himself Rudolph Genée , from around 1910 almost exclusively publicly referred to as Rudolf Genée , pseudonym: PP Hamlet , * December 12, 1824 in Berlin ; † January 19, 1914 ibid) was a German writer , theater historian and Reciter .

Life

The son Friedrich Genées and younger brother Richard Genées left the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin without a degree and was trained as a xylograph by Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz . He then worked for a short time as a bassist at the theater in Danzig , which his father had directed since 1841. Under his successor he also worked as a director .

In 1859 he became editor of the Danziger Zeitung and in 1861 moved to Coburg for the Coburger Zeitung and worked as editor until 1864.

Genée wrote plays that were performed all over the German-speaking area, and also edited foreign plays. He wrote some of his literary works under the pseudonym P. P. Hamlet . His recitations of Shakespeare dramas and Kleist's Hermannsschlacht were famous . To this end, he had developed his own method of reciting some of the pieces and bringing intermediate parts closer to the audience through lecturing. To the "extraordinary effect" of the blasphemy school in his own translation and editing, he reports, however, the technique of the lecture contributed to a large extent .

"[...] for here for the first time I had used a virtuosity in the handling of the voice that I had intended and prepared, so that in the scenes of the blasphemous society I speak to five to six people at the fastest pace, each recognizable by the way they speak and even made people laugh. With this trick I almost felt like a juggler who throws five to six balls or plates and knives into the air and catches them all. "

- times and people. Experiences and opinions

Genée carried out research on German theater history , Hans Sachs and the Elizabethan theater . He was born in Jena in 1874 at the age of 50 with his dissertation on the rhythm of language and a lecture as a Dr. phil. PhD. Twenty years later, in April 1895, the Prussian Ministry of Culture awarded him the honorary title of professor .

From 1879, after spending several years in Dresden, Genée lived again in his native city of Berlin, from there traveled around the country as a Shakespeare reciter and prepared the stage reform in Munich through his active journalistic activity . In 1894 he and Robert von Mendelssohn founded the Berlin Mozart Congregation , which Genée directed until 1911, when he retired for reasons of age. His successor, also as editor of the Mitheilungen for the Mozart community in Berlin , was Friedrich Rückward .

Rudolph Genée died in Berlin in 1914 at the age of 89 and was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Rudolph Genée 's siblings were Ottilie Genée and Richard Genée .

Works (selection)

Plays

  • Faustin I. Emperor of Haiti, or make-up and blood, satyrical farce with song in 3 acts. Hofmann, Berlin 1850.
  • Müller and Schultze or: billeting. Funny-satyrical genre picture with singing in 1 act. Lassar, Berlin 1851. ( digitized version )
  • Cross and Sword or: The Citizens of Danzig. Historical tragedy. Bertling, Danzig 1853.
  • The wonder. A comedy in four acts. Duncker, Berlin 1854. ( digitized version )
  • The Legacy, or: His Evil Demon. Comedy in three acts. Groening, Danzig 1856.
  • Benjamin looking for his father. Vaudeville in one act. 1856.
  • A new Timon. Comedy in five acts. Kolbe, Berlin 1857. ( digitized version )
  • Diavoletta from Kreuzwettergrund. Comedy in 3 acts, freely adapted from an older subject by Federici. Kolbe, Berlin 1858.
  • The birth of the poet. A festival for Friedrich Schiller's centenary birthday party. Bertling, Danzig 1859. ( digitized version )
  • Schleicher and comrades or: the blasphemy school. Comedy in 5 acts with free use of the material from Sheridan's "school for scandal". Kühling, Berlin 1873.
  • By! Comedy. Bloch, Berlin 1875.
  • Stephy Girard. Character image in 1 act (using e. Sealsfield's novel). Roeder, Berlin 1878.
  • Hospitality. Dramatic poem. Deubner, Berlin 1884.
  • The cloister. Play in four acts. Deubner, Berlin 1885.
  • Hans Sachs. A festival to celebrate his 400th birthday. Decision, Berlin 1894.
  • Countess Catherine. An incident in 1 elevator. Reimer, Berlin 1908.

novel

  • Marienburg. Historical narrative. Deubner, Berlin 1884.

Non-fiction

  • Wreath. Female character images from German dramatic poems , 1862 as an e-book (Google)
  • City and Veste Coburg and the surrounding area . Represented historically and topographically for foreigners and locals. With a city map of Coburg. Riemann, Coburg 1865. Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich
  • History of Shakespeare's dramas in Germany , 1870 (books.google)
  • Shakespeare's Life and Works , 1872
  • The English Miracles and Moralities as the Precursors of English Drama , 1878 books.google
  • The German Theater and the Reform Question , 1878. Digitized from BASE, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
  • Years of apprenticeship and wandering in German acting. From the beginning of the Reformation to the middle of the 18th century , 1882
  • One hundred years of the Royal Theater in Berlin. Described from the sources , 1886
  • Hans Sachs, Life and Selected Poems, Schwänke and Carnival Games , 1888
  • The development of scenic theater and the stage reform in Munich , 1889
  • Hans Sachs and his time. A picture of life and culture from the time of the Reformation , 1894
  • The Goethe Secret , by PP Hamlet. 1897. ( digitized version of the 2nd edition 1897 ) (new edition under the title "We however are objective" 1992 ISBN 3-928779-03-6 )
  • AW Schlegel and Shakespeare. A contribution to the appreciation of Schlegel's translations , 1903

Autobiographical

proof

  1. ^ Pierre Genée: Richard Genée and the Viennese operetta. Erhard Löcker, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85409-738-9 . Pp. 15, 27.
  2. ↑ Rudolph Genée: Times and People. Experiences and opinions . Mittler, Berlin 1897, pp. 277–278 archive.org .
  3. ^ Rudolf Genée: Times and People. Experiences and opinions Mittler, Berlin 1897, p. 343 archive.org .
  4. ^ Neue Musikzeitung 32 (1911), p. 137 books.google .
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 751.

literature

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SURNAME Genée, Rudolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Genée, Rudolph Heinrich; Genée, Rudolf; Hamlet, PP (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, theater historian and reciter
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1914
Place of death Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire