Wilhelm Hellmuth-Bräm (actor, 1864)

Wilhelm Hellmuth-Bräm ( April 6, 1864 in Hamburg - before 1928) was a Swiss theater actor .

Life

Bräm, son of the Swiss actor Wilhelm Hellmuth-Bräm (1827–1890) and his wife Laura (née Helfferich, 1835–1913), was trained by his father in Berlin and worked as a character actor at the city theaters in Königsberg , Augsburg , Basel , Cologne, Aachen, Kiel, Zurich .

On April 14, 1886, he played "Pastor Manders" in the German premiere of Ghosts at the Augsburg Theater. From October 1891 he was engaged at the Zurich City Theater.

In 1902 he was the chief director of the city theater in Metz, where he also worked as an actor. In 1903 he worked in Düsseldorf as a director and actor in the play Heimat von Hermann Sudermann and until 1904 in other plays. From 1905 at the latest until at least 1919 he then worked in Leipzig.

His roles included "Alba", "Marinelli", "Shylock", "Jago", "Richard III", "Komla", "Cassius", "Carlos", "Graf Traft" etc. He had a sister Elisabeth ( Elise), who also worked as a stage actress and opera singer in Hanover, Posen and at the Berlin Court Opera.

literature

Ludwig Eisenberg : Wilhelm Hellmuth-Bräm . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 414 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).

Web links

Wilhelm Hellmuth-Bräm at The Ibsen Stage Performance Database at the University of Oslo
Actors: Hellmuth-Braem, Wilhelm Düsseldorfer theater bill (DFG)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Ottmar G. Flüggen: Biographical stage lexicon of the German theaters. From the beginning of German drama to the present . 1st year. A. Bruckmann, Munich 1892, Sp. 135 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ Ghosts at The Ibsen Stage Performance Database at the University of Oslo
^ Heimat in the central directory of digitized prints
^ Wilhelm Hellmuth-Bräm at The Ibsen Stage Performance Database of the University of Oslo
^ Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Hellmuth-Bräm, Wilhelm, bass . In: Large song dictionary . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 2024 ( books.google.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Hellmuth-Bräm, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	before 1928

[Flüggen-1] A ^b ^c Ottmar G. Flüggen: Biographical stage lexicon of the German theaters. From the beginning of German drama to the present . 1st year. A. Bruckmann, Munich 1892, Sp. 135 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Ghosts at The Ibsen Stage Performance Database at the University of Oslo

[3] Heimat in the central directory of digitized prints

[4] Wilhelm Hellmuth-Bräm at The Ibsen Stage Performance Database of the University of Oslo

[5] Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Hellmuth-Bräm, Wilhelm, bass . In: Large song dictionary . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 2024 ( books.google.de ).