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Ludwig Dahn
Ludwig Dahn (born March 12, 1843 – October 20, 1898) was a German actor. Early life Dahn was the son of actor Friedrich Dahn and his first wife Konstanze Dahn; his older brother was the writer Felix Dahn. Dahn received his first artistic instruction from his mother; later he became a student of actress Sophie Schröder. Career Through their mediation he came to the Weimar court theatre at the age of 17. There he was able to debut in September of the same year successfully in the role of "Leopold". There he remained until 1864 member of the ensemble and worked in almost all royal dramas Shakespeare. In 1865, Dahn moved to the Prussian Court Theatre in Berlin as the "first adolescent lover" and remained there until the German-French War, before returning to Berlin. There he also married and had a son, Felix (1874). In September 1873 he accepted a commitment to the German Theatre in St. Petersburg. He worked there from spring 1874 to summer 1877 and then returned to Germany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich, Germany
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the 11th-largest city in the European Union. The city's metropolitan region is home to 6 million people. Straddling the banks of the River Isar (a tributary of the Danube) north of the Bavarian Alps, Munich is the seat of the Bavarian administrative region of Upper Bavaria, while being the most densely populated municipality in Germany (4,500 people per km2). Munich is the second-largest city in the Bavarian dialect area, after the Austrian capital of Vienna. The city was first mentioned in 1158. Catholic Munich strongly resisted the Reformation and was a political point of divergence during the resulting Thirty Years' War, but remained physically un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstanze Dahn
Konstanze Dahn, born ''Constanze Le Gaye'' (12 June 1814 in Kassel, † 26 March 1894 in Munich) was a German actress of French-Huguenot origin. Early life Dahn was born as the youngest daughter of Kapellmeister A. (also: Charles) Le Gaye and his wife Antoinette, née Schäfer. Both parents served as musicians at the royal-Westphalian court of Jérôme Bonaparte in Kassel, where the daughter also received her first artistic lessons. In 1821, at the age of seven, she completed her debut at the Theater in Düsseldorf in the role of the "Donauwibchen". Wilhelm von Schadow painted it there as ''Mignon''. Career On 29 June 1831 she was able to record her greatest success in the role of "Gretchen". Her congenial opponent was the actor Heinrich Marr. With this appearance, the 17-year-old under her birth name "Mlle. Le Gaye "in the German-speaking area. In June 1833, Constanze Dahn completed a first successful guest performance at the Royal Court Theater in Munich and was there from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Dahn
Friedrich Dahn (born 18 April 1811 in Berlin – 9 December 1889 in Munich) was a German actor and director. Early life At the request of his family, Dahn began to study theology at the university of his hometown. Already during his studies, he was interested in the stage and occasionally appeared on private amateur stages. After he had finished his studies without a degree he made his debut in 1829 under Karl Friedrich Cerf at the Royal City Theatre. Later he was engaged as a "youthful lover" at the Municipal Theatre Wroclaw. Personal life When in 1831 the actor Gustav Emil Devrient moved from Hamburg to Dresden , Dahn was appointed successor to the Hamburg City Theatre. In Hamburg, Dahn married on 15 April 1833, the actress Constanze Le Gaye and had with her two sons, Felix Felix may refer to: * Felix (name), people and fictional characters with the name Places * Arabia Felix is the ancient Latin name of Yemen * Felix, Spain, a municipality of the province Almer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Dahn
Felix Dahn (9 February 1834 – 3 January 1912) was a German law professor, German nationalism, German nationalist author, poet and historian. Biography Ludwig Julius Sophus Felix Dahn was born in Hamburg as the oldest son of Friedrich (1811–1889) and Constanze Dahn who were notable actors at the city's theatre. The family had both German and French roots. Dahn began his studies in law and philosophy in University of Munich, Munich (he had moved there with his parents in 1834), and graduated as Doctor of Laws in Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin. After his habilitation treatise, Dahn became a lecturer of German Law in Munich in 1857. In 1863 he became senior lecturer/associate professor in University of Würzburg, Würzburg, received a professorship in University of Königsberg, Königsberg (in 1872). Dahn was married to the artist Sophie Fries (1835–1898), with whom he had a son. He tutored baroness Therese von Droste-Hülshoff, a relative of the poet Annette von Droste- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Schröder
Sophie Antonie Luise Schröder (née Bürger) (1 March 1781 - 25 February 1868) was a German actress. She was born at Paderborn, the daughter of an actor, Gottfried Bürger. She made her first appearance in opera at St Petersburg, in 1793. On Kotzebue's recommendation she was engaged for the Vienna Court theatre in 1798, and here and in Munich and Hamburg she won great successes in tragic roles like Marie Stuart, Phèdre, Merope, Lady Macbeth, and Isabella in ''The Bride of Messina'', which gave her the reputation of being "the German Siddons." She retired in 1840 and lived in Augsburg and Munich until her death in 1868. She had married, in 1795, an actor, Stollmers (properly Smets), from whom she separated in 1799. In 1804 she married the tenor Friedrich Schröder, and after his death in 1818, she married the actor, Wilhelm Kunst in 1825. Schröder's eldest daughter was the opera singer, Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient. She had several illegitimate children with the painter Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weimar Court Theatre
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouring cities of Erfurt and Jena, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia, with approximately 500,000 inhabitants. The city itself has a population of 65,000. Weimar is well known because of its large cultural heritage and its importance in German history. The city was a focal point of the German Enlightenment and home of the leading figures of the literary genre of Weimar Classicism, writers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. In the 19th century, noted composers such as Franz Liszt made Weimar a music centre. Later, artists and architects such as Henry van de Velde, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, and Walter Gropius came to the city and founded the Bauhaus movement, the most important German de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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