Konrad Ernst Ackermann (1 February 1710 – 13 November 1771) was a German actor.
Ackermann first accompanied field marshal
Burkhard Christoph von Münnich
Burkhard Christoph Graf von Münnich (, tr. ; – ) was a German-born army officer who became a field marshal and political figure in the Russian Empire. He carried out major reforms in the Russian Army and founded several elite militar ...
on his travels and in battles. Born in
Schwerin, he first entered the stage under a certain ''Stolle''. In 1740 he entered the troupe of Johann Friedrich Schönemann in
Lüneburg, where he first met his future wife
Sophie Charlotte Bierreichel, who took the lead of the troupe in 1741 in
Hamburg. The troupe dissolved in 1744 and they lived with relatives of Konrad in
Mecklenburg. In 1747 he was hired in
Danzig, later in
St. Petersburg. In 1749 he and Sophie visited Moscow, where they married; they left
Russia in 1751 and founded the Ackermann troupe (''Ackermann'sche Gesellschaft'').
The troupe visited Danzig,
Königsberg,
Breslau,
Warsaw, Leipzig,
Halle Halle may refer to:
Places Germany
* Halle (Saale), also called Halle an der Saale, a city in Saxony-Anhalt
** Halle (region), a former administrative region in Saxony-Anhalt
** Bezirk Halle, a former administrative division of East Germany
** Hall ...
, then
Frankfurt am Main and with the beginning of the
Seven Years' War (1756–1763) via
Strasbourg
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, France, to
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. After the peace treaty, they returned via Strasbourg,
Frankfurt,
Mainz,
Braunschweig, and
Hanover to
Hamburg, which became the domicile of the troupe. In 1762,
Johann Michael Böck joined the troupe.
Friederike Sophie Seyler also joined around this time, and both remained members until the troupe was sold in 1767.
In 1767 the troupe was sold to a consortium of private owners, called the Hamburg National Theatre or the
Hamburgische Entreprise
The Hamburg Enterprise (german: Hamburgische Entreprise), commonly known as the Hamburg National Theatre, was a theatre company in Hamburg (now Germany), that existed 1767–1769 at the Gänsemarkt square, and that was led by Abel Seyler. It was ...
, also known as
Lessing Lessing is a German surname of Slavic origin, originally ''Lesnik'' meaning "woodman".
Lessing may refer to:
A German family of writers, artists, musicians and politicians who can be traced back to a Michil Lessigk mentioned in 1518 as being a lin ...
's ''Dramaturgie'', with
Abel Seyler as its main backer. The ''dramaturgie'' was home to famous founders of German
histrionics such as
Friedrich Ludwig Schröder
Friedrich Ludwig Schröder (3 November 1744 – 3 September 1816) was a German actor, manager, dramatist and prominent masonic leader.
He was born in Schwerin. Shortly after his birth, his mother, Sophie Charlotte Bierreichel (1714&nda ...
and
Konrad Ekhof. In 1769 many of Ackermann's actors joined the
Seyler theatrical company
The Seyler Theatre Company, also known as the Seyler Company (German: ''Seylersche Schauspiel-Gesellschaft'', sometimes ''Seylersche Truppe''), was a theatrical company founded in 1769 by Abel Seyler, a Hamburg businessman originally from Switzerl ...
.
His children with Sophie Charlotte were
Dorothea Ackermann and
Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann.
Sources
* ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' –
online version at
Wikisource
Born-on-this-Day.com
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1710 births
1771 deaths
People from Schwerin
People from the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
German male stage actors
18th-century German male actors