Friedrich Haase (1 November 1827 – 17 March 1911) was a prominent

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and

theatre director A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...

. He was born in

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, the son of a

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to King

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, who was his godfather. __NOTOC__

Career

Haase trained under

Ludwig Tieck Johann Ludwig Tieck (; ; 31 May 177328 April 1853) was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early life Tieck was born in Be ...

and made his first appearance in 1846 in

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. He later performed in

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(1849–1851), under

Eduard Devrient (Philipp) Eduard Devrient (11 August 18014 October 1877) was a German baritone, librettist, playwright, actor, theatre director, and theatre reformer and historian. Devrient came from a theatrical family. His uncle was Ludwig Devrient and his b ...

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(1852–1855), and

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(1860–1866). He also toured the

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. He was manager of the court theatre in

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, and was manager of the Stadttheater in

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(today

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), from 1870 to 1876.Dr. Helene Tank-Mirow: "Geschichte des Schweriner Hoftheaters 1855–1882"
, S. 107, in: ''Jahrbücher des Vereins für Mecklenburgische Geschichte und Altertumskunde'', Bd. 88 (1924), S. 59–110 After returning to Berlin, Haase founded the Deutsches Theater. He was awarded the prestigious

Iffland-Ring The Iffland-Ring is a diamond-studded ring with a picture of August Wilhelm Iffland, a prominent German actor, dramatist and theatre director of the late 18th and early 19th century. The holder, or bearer, of the Iffland-Ring is considered to be t ...

in 1878 by

Theodor Döring Theodor Döring (9 January 1803 – 17 August 1878) was a German actor. Döring was born in Warsaw and settled with his family in 1807 in Prenzlau. He attended high school in Berlin. He found work as an actor, later working in Hamburg in 1834. H ...

and much the legend of the ring's origin goes back to Haase.Die Geschichte Des Ringes
History of the Iffland-Ring, accessed: February 10, 2009 Haase retired from the stage in 1898. The street ''Haase Straße'' in Berlin-

Friedrichshain Friedrichshain () is a quarter (''Ortsteil'') of the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany. From its creation in 1920 until 2001, it was a freestanding city borough. Formerly part of East Berlin, it is adjacent to Mitte, Prenz ...

is named after him.

Works

* ''Was ich erlebte 1846–1896''. Berlin: Bong 1897 (autobiography)

Literature

* Paul von Ebart: ''Friedrich Haase als Leiter des Koburg-Gothaischen Hoftheaters''. Including excerpts from Haase's letters. In: ''Deutsche Revue'' 1912, March

References

* 1827 births 1911 deaths Iffland-Ring German male stage actors German theatre directors Male actors from Berlin People from the Province of Brandenburg 19th-century German male actors {{Germany-stage-actor-stub