Wolf Adolf August von Lüttichau

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Wolf Adolf August von Lüttichau (born June 15, 1786 in Ulbersdorf , † February 26, 1863 in Dresden ) was a general manager of the Saxon Court Theater in Dresden .

Life

Grave of Wolf Adolf August von Lüttichau at the Trinitatisfriedhof in Dresden (before restoration)

Wolf August von Lüttichau comes from the Meissen noble family von Lüttichau . In 1809 he became a hunting page, in 1813 an assessor in the Saxon Finance College and in 1816 a chief forester in the Dresden district. In 1814/15 a few Saxon courtiers accompanied their King Friedrich August I into Prussian captivity at Friedrichsfelde Palace near Berlin. Wolf August von Lüttichau was one of them. Presumably because of this loyalty to the allegiance, he was appointed general director of the Royal Saxon musical band and the court theater in 1824 . He held this position until 1862. In Dresden he was a member of the Masonic lodge Zum golden Apfel .

From 1818 he was married to Ida von Lüttichau (née von Knobelsdorff ). The couple had five children, but only two of them reached adulthood. This includes the Secret Council of Karl von Lüttichau .

The family's grave is located in the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden .

The court theater at the time of Liège

During Lüttichau's time, the Sächsische Hoftheater Dresden was shaped by important artistic personalities in the field of music ( Carl Maria von Weber , Richard Wagner , Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient ), acting ( Emil Devrient , Bogumil Dawison ) and dramaturgically ( Ludwig Tieck , Eduard Devrient , Karl Gutzkow ). Culturally committed personalities such as Carl Gustav Carus , Karl Gottlieb Theodor Winkler (alias Theodor Hell ) or the later King Johann made their influence felt. From 1838 to 1841 Gottfried Semper built a new court theater, the first Semperoper .

During the Dresden May uprising , both Richard Wagner and Gottfried Semper sided with the revolutionaries.

meaning

At that time, the tasks of a general director of a court theater were not seen primarily in his artistic skills. Wolf August von Lüttichau saw himself above all as a loyal representative of his king's interests. Contemporary witness reports as well as more recent specialist literature prove his tireless and bureaucratically correct organization of the conflicting interests.

On the other hand, he often reached his limits in dealing with his artistic collaborators and in making artistic assessments. Here his wife Ida von Lüttichau had considerable complementary influence.

The focus of Wolf August von Lüttichau's importance as general manager is his unconditional support for Richard Wagner, who was employed as second conductor at the Dresden court opera from 1843 to 1849 and there his operas Rienzi (1842), Der fiegen Holländer (1843) and Tannhäuser ( 1845) was able to premiere. Lüttichau's commitment to Wagner is all the more highly valued as there was an extremely ambivalent relationship between the two, which led to insults on both sides.

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personal data
SURNAME Lüttichau, Wolf Adolf August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general director of the Saxon Court Theater in Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulbersdorf
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1863
Place of death Dresden