Theodor Lebrun
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Theodor Lebrun , actually Theodor Johann Adolph Leinveber , (born January 14, 1828 on the Manor Condehnen near Medenau , Fischhausen district ; † April 9, 1895 in Hirschberg ) was a German actor and theater director .
Life
Lebrun was the son of a landowner in East Prussia . He attended high school in Königsberg until he finished high school. Despite the politically troubled times of the Revolution of 1848-49 he went in the spring of 1848 to Berlin in order to attend the university to study medicine.
Since Lebrun was very enthusiastic about the theater and had also participated in various private performances, he asked the actors Theodor Döring and Hermann Hendrichs for support right at the beginning of his stay in Berlin . She was denied him; however, he was soon able to make his debut on the stage of the amateur theater company Urania as "Hans Sachs". There, in 1848/49, the principal Mittelhausen signed him for his traveling theater company .
The first stop with this ensemble was the city theater in Thorn . In 1850 he went to the court theater in Dessau and was seen there for the first time on November 26th as “Prince Udaschkin”. Then Lebrun played in succession in Stettin , Danzig and Breslau ; at the last place of work he also acted as a director.
He married the court actress Sophie Härting on June 4, 1855 in Schwerin Cathedral .
For the season 1857/58 he was hired as a director at the Hoftheater Hannover . In 1858 he fulfilled his obligations in Breslau, only to be brought to the Wiesbaden Court Theater in 1859 . In 1865 he quit this position and took over the management of the Riga City Theater for three years . In the spring of 1868 he returned to Germany with his wife and settled in Berlin . In April of the same year he took over the direction of Franz Wallner's theater . In the course of 1886 financial problems grew too great and he resigned from his position as director. As an actor, he tried to gain a foothold again at the Hamburg Thalia Theater , but he was unable to build on his earlier successes.
In the course of 1889 he retired from the stage and settled in the Giant Mountains . Theodor Lebrun died 12 weeks after his 67th birthday in Hirschberg and found his final resting place there.
Roles (selection)
- Hans Sachs - Hans Sachs ( Johann Ludwig Deinhardstein )
- Fedor Udaschkin - Count Waldemar ( Gustav Freytag )
- Franz Moor - The Robbers ( Friedrich Schiller )
- Cromwell - Cromwell ( Victor Hugo )
- Shylock - The Merchant of Venice ( William Shakespeare )
- Iago - Othello (William Shakespeare)
- Lamoignon - archetype of the Tartüffe ( Karl Gutzkow )
- Klaus - Doctor Klaus ( Adolph L'Arronge )
- Leopold - My Leopold (Adolph L'Arronge)
student
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 582, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Josef Lewinsky (Ed.): Before the Coulissen. Original sheets from Celebrites of the German Theater, Vol. 1 . Verlag Hofmann, Berlin 1881, pp. 107-110.
- Hermann Arthur Lier: Lebrun, Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 608 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lt. Baptism entry in the church book, parish Medenau, 1828, p. 23.
- ↑ Mecklenburg Church Book Office - Ev.-Luth. 1855 - page 37
Web links
- Portrait of Lebrun (seated) with Paul Flashar , drawing by CW Allers in the inventory of the SUB Hamburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lebrun, Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leinveber, Theodor Johann Adolph (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manor Condehnen near Medenau , Fischhausen district |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1895 |
| Place of death | Hirschberg |