Theodor Liedtcke

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Theodor Liedtcke (born October 23, 1828 in Königsberg , † November 20, 1902 in Berlin ) was a German actor.

Liedtcke was supposed to devote himself to agriculture, but, following his inclination, went to the stage in Königsberg in 1846 , then became a baritoneist at a company in Vilnius , then sang bass parts at the Stettin City Theater and first found a more significant engagement as an actor in Altona .

After changing stays in Stettin , Weimar , Dresden , Liegnitz and Vienna , he was engaged at the Berlin Court Theater in 1850. In the past he mainly worked in the hero and lover's field, later he turned to the humorous and developed into one of the happiest representatives of humorous intellectual and natal aristocrats in tails. He performed as a guest in Hamburg , Leipzig and Munich .

Theodor Liedtcke died in Berlin in 1902 at the age of 74. He was buried in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor , where his wife Clara Liedtcke (1820–1862), who died forty years earlier, had found her final resting place. Both graves have not been preserved.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 233.