Theodor Lobe

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Theodor Lobe (born March 8, 1833 in Ratibor ; † March 21, 1905 in Niederlößnitz ) was a German actor , director and theater manager , as well as the founder of the Lobe Theater in Breslau .

Theodor Lobe, around 1880
Wroclaw Theater of Praise

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Early years

Theodor Lobe was born in Ratibor in Upper Silesia in 1833 . His father Karl Lobe († 1847) was the principal of a traveling group of actors, the Wäserschen Gesellschaft , his mother Jeanette Dessoir an actress and the older sister of the Shakespeare actor Ludwig Dessoir . Lobes father died in Warmbrunn in 1847 . In 1848, the mother married the Poznan theater director Joseph Keller.

While the parents' troops were traveling through Silesia and performing in numerous places, Theodor probably came to the secondary school in Liegnitz around 1843 . In the year of his father's death, Lobe left school and began his professional life for a short time in a Wroclaw trading company. After arguments with his parents, he began his life on stage in Liegnitz with his parents' troupe. Since the activity as stage manager and smaller roles were not enough for him, he left the drama company and started a wandering life. He then had an engagement in Eisleben , whereupon he went to Berlin in 1851 to the Krollsche Theater . After engagements in Leipzig and in Hamburg at the Stadttheater , where he got the writer Julius Stettenheim to write the one-act play Auf dem Jungfernstieg , he returned to Berlin. At the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtischer Theater he celebrated a popular success as Faust in 1856 in the farce Faust and Gretchen of his Upper Silesian compatriot Eduard Jacobson (1833-1897) , with which praise was set for the comic subject for the next few years . In the print version of the play, Lobe appeared as a co-author . From 1858 on he was a member of the ensemble of the German Court Theater in Saint Petersburg . Lobe earned a "good name" there and on guest tours.

Wroclaw and the Lobe Theater

Lobe Theater in Wroclaw, around 1900

In 1866 he took over the management of the city theater (opera house) in Breslau , which had been rebuilt after a fire in the previous year , where he made his first experiences as a theater director . In 1867 the young conductor Ernst Schuch (1846–1914) began his career with Lobe as Kapellmeister . In 1868 Lobe brought his cousin Ferdinand Dessoir to Breslau. With the end of the "privileged" theater and the entry of commercial freedom in 1869, Lobe founded the so-called Lobe Theater as a vaudeville stage in addition to his work at the city theater in order to indulge the cheerful muse there, while he gave character roles in the city theater , such as the Marinelli , Iago and Mephistopheles . The architect Friedrich Barchewitz had a new building with 1,096 seats built in the Ohlau suburb of Breslau, at Lessingstrasse 8, which was opened on August 1, 1869 under his direction with Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm . In 1871 the city theater burned down again and became unplayable. Lobe had put all of the money he had saved in St. Petersburg into the Lobe Theater and was plagued by financial worries. In May 1872 he left Breslau after selling the Lobe Theater to a Berlin theater director. From 1874 to 1878, Adolph L'Arronge , who came from Berlin, was in charge of the house, which is respected beyond the borders of Silesia. In 1896, the writer Theodor Löwe (1855–1935) acquired the Lobe Theater, where he performed classical drama and later also operettas. Actors like Hugo Thimig , Paul Albert Glaeser-Wilken , Werner Krauss , Walter Bruno Iltz and Heinz Rühmann worked or made their debut there. The Meiningers also performed there. However, the Lobe Theater was to reach its climax under Paul Barnay (1884–1960), who was director of the two United Theaters in Breslau from 1921 to 1933 . a. discovered the actors Marlene Dietrich , Therese Giehse , Käthe Gold , František Lederer , Carola Neher , Rudolf Platte and Angela Salloker , the directors Max Ophüls , Leopold Lindtberg , Leo Mittler and the dramaturges Klabund , Friedrich Bischoff and Otto Zoff . The Lobe Theater was closed in 1935 for reasons of building control and the theater moved to the New Playhouse . The fighting for the fortress of Breslau towards the end of the Second World War destroyed the building of the Lobe Theater, which no longer opened its doors afterwards.

Later years

Theodor Lobe, around 1900
Theodor Lobe's tomb

As early as 1871, due to his financial difficulties, Lobe had accepted a call from the playwright Heinrich Laube as a character actor at the newly founded Wiener Stadttheater , of which he belonged until 1880. In Vienna , Lobe changed completely into the serious subject and matured into an “excellent character”. The star roles were Mephistopheles , Nathan and Rudolf II in the world premiere of Grillparzer's Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg in 1872, with which he became a celebrated star on the Viennese stage. Lobe also took over the management of the Viennese house for a while. In Vienna he was also the master of the chair of the future Masonic Lodge there .

In 1880 he was engaged for the Stadttheater in Frankfurt am Main and in 1887, after having only made guest appearances there since 1885, won him over as a director and actor for the Thaliatheater in Hamburg . Numerous guest tours led Lobe through Germany, Austria and Switzerland, other star roles were Richard III. , Shylock , Philip II and King Lear . The young actor Eduard von Winterstein (1871–1961) experienced praise as Pedro Crespo in Calderón's Der Richter von Zalamea at the Princely Court Theater Gera and was so impressed by its playful faithfulness to the work that in 1942, more than fifty years later, he praised it in his childhood memories "Undeservedly forgotten" described. Since Lobe was also open to the naturalistic theater , in 1889 he played the carpenter Jakob Engstrand in Ibsen's Ghosts in the opening production of the Free Stage Theater Association at the Lessing Theater in Berlin , in a closed event due to the current censorship .

From 1892 to 1897 he was engaged as an actor (an "excellent character actor") at the Royal Saxon Court Theater in Dresden , where he also worked as an acting teacher and as a senior director.

Just like his former young colleague from Breslau times, Ernst von Schuch, who in the meantime worked as general music director at the Dresden court theater, Lobe was drawn to Niederlößnitz in front of the gates of the royal seat. Lobe died there a few weeks after his 72nd birthday in his old age residence, which is now a listed country house at Nordstrasse 4 . He was buried in the neighboring Kötzschenbroda in the New Cemetery , where his grave monument with a bronze plaque of his laurel-adorned portrait can still be found today. This was designed in 1906 by the sculptor Johannes Boese (1856–1917), who also came from Ratibor. Obituaries recognized praises as "one of the most famous personalities in the German theater world".

Roles (excerpt)

Student (selection)

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  • Eduard Jacobson; Theodor Lobe: Faust and Gretchen . Berlin 1856.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Frank Andert: Rummaged in the archive: From Ratibor to Radebeul - Theodor Lobe. In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler Monatshefte eV, March 2008, accessed on November 4, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Karl Schindler gives the first name Ernst in the East German biography ; see praise, Theodor . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
  3. ^ Karl Richter:  Dessoir, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 617 ( digitized version ). Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  4. ↑ Julius Stettenheim: Cheerful Memories - Chapter 3 , accessed on May 15, 2020.
  5. ↑ a b c d Theaterwelt in Breslau (PDF; 424 kB), accessed on November 11, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / breslau-wroclaw.de
  6. ^ Löwe, Theodor (1855-1935), theater director and writer.
  7. ^ Karl Schindler: Praise, Theodor . In: Ostdeutsche Biographie (Kulturportal West-Ost), accessed on November 11, 2011.
  8. ↑ Paul Barnay in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on November 11, 2011 ( beginning of article freely available)
  9. ^ Ludwika Gajek: The Breslauer Schauspiel in the mirror of the daily press: the praise theater in the first five years of the Weimar Republic (1918-1923) . Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05604-5 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  10. ↑ E. Lennhoff, O. Posner, DA Binder: Internationales Freemaurer Lexikon . Special edition, FA Herbig, Munich 2006, p. 520.
  11. ↑ Praise, Theodor . In: Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon . 5th edition. Volume 2, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1911, pp.  70-71 .
  12. ↑ Praise, Theodor . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 12, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p.  642 .
personal data
SURNAME Praise, Theodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and theater director, founder of the Lobe Theater in Wroclaw
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratibor (Silesia)
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1905
Place of death Niederlößnitz (Radebeul)