Wilhelm Meves

This article is about the actor Wilhelm Meves. For other people see Wilhelm Mewes .

Wilhelm Meves , also Wilhelm Mewes (born June 6, 1848 in Braunschweig ; † August 26, 1908 there ) was a German actor .

Life

The son of a mechanic was a student at the community school on Wilhelmstrasse before he moved to the Martino-Katharineum to prepare for theology studies. After dropping out of school prematurely, he took acting lessons from Carl Schultes , who was the chief director at the Braunschweiger Hoftheater. Meves made his debut on May 21, 1866 at the Tivoli Theater in Lübeck as "Kreiser Schöffel" in Poacher . Engagements followed in Elberfeld, Freiburg / Breisgau (1867–69), Königsberg (1869–71) and Halle (1871/72). In 1872 he moved to the Braunschweig Court Theater, to which he belonged until his retirement in 1906. The versatile mime mastered both the serious and the humorous character roles, including Iago , Falstaff , Nathan , Faust and Caligula. Meves was also active as a stage writer. He wrote the libretti for two operas by the Brunswick composer Max Clarus . He edited plays and wrote song texts in Low German dialect. His fairy tale poem The Water Mermaids was set to music by Franz Abt .

Works (selection)

• The water mermaids. Fairy tale poem for solos, female choir and piano, Op. 555. Music by Franz Abt, Bauer, Braunschweig 1883, OCLC 711832544 ( online ).
• The great king's recruit. Patriotic opera in three acts, music by Max Clarus , Appelhans, Braunschweig 1889, OCLC 706860094 .
• Princess Ilse. Romantic opera poem in three acts, music by Max Clarus. Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig 1895, OCLC 81931498 .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, OCLC 14080205 , p. 669, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Angela Klein: Meves, Wilhelm. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 412 .
• City of Braunschweig (ed.): 300 years of theater in Braunschweig 1690–1990. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1990, ISBN 3-926-70111-0 , p. 399f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Angela Klein: Meves, Wilhelm . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 412 .
2. ↑ City of Braunschweig (ed.): 300 years of theater in Braunschweig 1690–1990 , Braunschweig 1990, p. 399f.