Otto Devrient

Otto Devrient ( born October 3, 1838 in Berlin, † June 23, 1894 in Stettin) was a German actor and playwright.

Life

Devrient was a son of actor Eduard Devrient Philipp. With 18 years Devrient could debut at Court Theatre Karlsruhe. Later several engagements followed at the stages of Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig.

1863 Devrient returned back to his first place of activity where, until 1873, belonged to the ensemble. This year, he was engaged at the Court Theatre in Weimar as a character actor; later he worked there as a director.

1876 ​​saw Devrient in Weimar with his production of the entire Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ) a tremendous sensation and was able to repeat this performance for many years on an annual basis. Devrient called his "Faust" a mystery in two days' work and published it the following year under the title " Goethe's Faust ".

Appointed Supreme Director of the Court Theatre in Mannheim in 1876, Devrient in 1877 was appointed director of the new Frankfurt city theater, but found himself in February 1879 led to resign the office again, and lived on after he also in Berlin, Cologne and Dusseldorf 's "Faust" had brought to the stage, in Jena.

Besides his work as an actor and director Devrient collected the correspondence August Wilhelm Iffland with the actors Ludwig Schröder and Friedrich Werdy and published this with a comment.

In Jena, came in 1883 his jubilee festival " Luther" (2nd edition, Leipzig 1884) for the performance, for its annual repeat itself formed a society; of the University of Jena, he was awarded an honorary doctorate. 1884 took over the management of the court theater Devrient to Oldenburg.

Family

Otto Devrient was married and had children, including:

  • Hans (1868-1928), German scholar and theater scholars, some editors of the Archive for History of Theatre
  • Ernst (1873-1948), historian and genealogist

Works

  • Two kings. Historical drama in 5 acts. Hasper, Karlsruhe 1867.
  • Two Shakespeare lectures. Held for the benefit of the Baden Women's Association. Braun, Karlsruhe, 1869.
  • Kaiser Rothbart. A fantastic folk play in 2 lifts. Braun, Karlsruhe, 1871.
  • Tiberius Gracchus. History tragedy in 5 lifts. Braun, Karlsruhe, 1871.
  • To feed celebration of the newly-weds High Jhrer Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke Karl August and the wife Grand Duchess Pauline of Saxe -Weimar- Eisenach. What we offer. Festival on September 8, 1873 in one act. Kühn, Weimar 1873.
  • Goethe 's Faust. For the performance as a mystery in two days' work. For the performance as a mystery set in two days' work. Braun, Karlsruhe, 1877.
  • As editor: Letters of AW Iffland and FL Schröder to the actor Werdy. Rommel, Frankfurt am Main, 1881.
  • Luther. Historical character image into seven divisions. A festival for four hundred year anniversary celebration of Luther, played by residents of Jena. Mauke, Jena 1883.
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