Johann Michael Böck

Johann Michael Boeck (* 1743 in Vienna, † July 18, 1793 in Mannheim) was an actor in the Age of Enlightenment.

He was initially Barbier, 1762 in Mainz joined the theater company Konrad Ernst Ackermann on, with which he went to Hamburg, and then took part in the migrations of Seylerschen company until 1775 when the court theater in Gotha he found a permanent position.

In 1777 he undertook the first tour for guest performances by Germany, led by Ekhofs death for nearly a year, the Directorate of the Gotha court theater and went to its dissolution in 1779 to the newly arisen Electoral National Theater in Mannheim, where he was the first to Schiller's Karl Moor and FIESCO played. He died on July 18, 1793 in Mannheim.