Theodor Julius Jaffé

Theodor Julius Jaffé ( born August 17, 1823 in Berlin, † April 11, 1898 in Dresden ) was a German actor.

Life

Theodor Julius Jaffé was destined for a legal career, but devoted himself from the affection of the Opera. After he had completed his vocal studies in Berlin and Vienna, he joined as a baritone in 1844 in Opava, then in Lübeck, Halle ( Saale ) Magdeburg and Cologne with success in serious and comic roles on. He recognized, however, that the drama was reciting the actual field for his talent, and went on to play in 1847, when he used the first character roles in Bremen.

In 1849, Jaffe went to Weimar in 1853 to Breslau, where he also worked as a director, and in 1856 to Brunswick. His reputation had grown more and more, so they picked him in 1864 as the successor Bogumil Dawison to Dresden. He worked until his retirement in 1894 at the Dresden theater. Jaffe died in 1898 in Dresden and was buried in the old cemetery Anne.

Work

Jaffe took under German actors a prominent position, even though he is the modern virtuosity as the sign away. Its main roles were Nathan ( Nathan the Wise, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ), Richard III. ( Richard III. , William Shakespeare), Shylock ( The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare), Iago ( Othello, William Shakespeare), Franz Moor ( The Robbers, Friedrich Schiller), Mephistopheles ( Faust I, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ), Philipp II ( Don Carlos, Friedrich Schiller), Marinelli, Carlos, Count Thorane ( The King lieutenant, Karl Gutzkow ), Narcissus, Tartuffe ( Tartuffe, Molière ), Uncle Moses, and others, and also in his numerous guest appearances undivided recognition.