Wilhelm Eichenwald (actor, 1827)

Wilhelm Ludwig Eichenwald ( December 12, 1827 in Berlin - June 9, 1910 in Dresden ) was a German theater actor, opera and operetta singer (tenor).

Life

Eichenwald, the son of the theater actors Wilhelm (died May 7, 1873 in Vienna) and Friederike Eichenwald , b. Pieper (died March 30, 1889 in Prague) entered the stage as a lover in a wandering company at the age of 17. He traveled to Lübeck, Chemnitz, Magdeburg, Rostock etc.

In 1852 he was engaged at the German Theater in Pest, where he became a comedian. During a guest appearance by Karl Mathias Rott , he tried a so-called Treumann role . The success in this encouraged him to continue working in this genre. Von Pest went to the Königstädtische Theater in Berlin, after which he was a declared audience favorite as a young comedian at the Thaliatheater Hamburg (1850-1858). He then worked at the Riga City Theater from 1858 to 1860 and at the Viktoriatheater in Berlin from 1860 to 1862.

On September 19, 1862 he made his debut in Prague as “Fröhlich Silberling” in Gänschen von Buchenau and in the solo scene For the first time from Robert the Devil and was then engaged. He stayed in Prague until 1876, but left the city when his voice could no longer keep up with the upcoming operetta. From 1876 to 1882 he was in Leipzig, then he was in Hamburg at the Stadttheater and the Thaliatheater. In June 1884 he was brought back to the Prague theater by Kreibig . He stayed there until his final retirement. He gave his farewell performance on May 30, 1895 (after exactly 50 years on the stage). After his stage farewell, he went to Dresden, where he also died.

Eichenwald married twice, the first time with the actress Margarethe Hartmann . Their son Eduard Eichenwald (1859–1895) was also a theater actor.

literature

Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 225 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Entry to Wilhelm Eichenwald in Kalliope

Remarks

↑ Eisenberg wrote in 1833, but that does not fit with 50 years of stage work in 1895. Then Eichenwald would have made his debut in 1845 at the age of 12, but Eisenberg wrote at 17.

personal data
SURNAME	Eichenwald, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eichenwald, Wilhelm Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theater actor, opera and operetta singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH	December 12, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	June 9, 1910
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Eisenberg wrote in 1833, but that does not fit with 50 years of stage work in 1895. Then Eichenwald would have made his debut in 1845 at the age of 12, but Eisenberg wrote at 17.