Heinrich Beck (actor)

Heinrich Christian Beck ( born February 19, 1760 Gotha; † May 7, 1803 in Mannheim, Germany ) was a German actor and playwright.

Life

Beck began with August Iffland and Johann David Beil his theatrical career at the court theater in Gotha, and went after the dissolution of the theater in 1779 as the majority of the ensemble of the National Theatre Mannheim, which went through at that time under Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg line an artistic flowering. Beck, where he worked at the premieres of Schiller's first plays The robbers (as Kosinsky ) and FIESCO (as BOURGOGNINO ).

1799 he was appointed Elector Maximilian IV Joseph of Bavaria as a director to Munich. From there he returned back in 1801 as a theater director to Mannheim, where he died in May 1803.

Beck was known for his acting skills and his good voice and moved with equal dexterity in pleasure and tragedy as in the Singspiel.

Among his plays, the comedies found The chess machine (Berlin 1798), The Tormentors ( an adaptation of Shakespeare's Much ado about nothing; Frankfurt 1802) and The Kamäleon (Frankfurt 1803), the most acclaim. His dramatic work appeared under the title "theater" in three volumes from 1802 in Frankfurt.

Beck's first wife Caroline, nee Ziegler ( born January 3, 1766 in Mannheim ), also a talented, promising actress who made ​​her debut in 1781 in Mannheim, but died on 24 July 1784th Friedrich Schiller, which she and as a performer of his Luise in Kabale Love had had in mind, proved her special affection.

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