Louis Angely

Louis Jean Jacques Angely (* February 1, 1787 in Leipzig, † November 16, 1835 in Berlin) was a German playwright, actor and director.

Life

Louis Angely was born the son of the cantor of the French Reformed Church in Leipzig Jean Georges Louis Angely and Jeanne Marie in Leipzig. Angely debuted as an actor in 1808 in Szczecin. After engagements in Riga, Reval and Jelgava, during which he often appeared in comedic roles, he came in 1826 to the German Court Theatre in St. Petersburg. Since 1828, he worked at the newly established Königstädter theater, where he came into existence both as an actor and as a director. Already in 1830 he retired from the stage and bought an inn in Spandau in Berlin. But he continued to write plays.

He died on 16 November 1835 in Berlin and was buried in the cemetery of the French Reformed church ( Liesenstraße ). His grave was leveled as part of the East German border fortifications.

The playwright

Louis Angely wrote primarily antics and vaudeville based on a French, which he adapted to the Berlin milieu. His most successful play was the Berlin Posse The festival of artisans who had no French original and was completely focused on the Berlin milieu. He was the first performer of the masonry foreman " Kluck " - a folksy become in the aftermath type at the theater. Sayings like " dadrum keene enmity non! " Have passed into the Berlin speech.

Works

• The Schneider Mamsells (1824 )
• Thérèse or the orphan of Geneva ( 1824)
• Dover and Calais, or lot and revenge ( Vaudeville in 2 acts, 1825)
• Student farces or Younger poachers (1825 )
• Seven Girls in Uniform ( 1825)
• The craft festival (first performed 1828)
• The century- old man (1828 )
• List and phlegm ( 1832 digitized )
• Paris in Pomerania (1839 )
• The Voyage of common expense
• The hares in the Hasenheide
• The two Hofmeister
• Homes for Rent
• The couple from the old days
• The Sisters
• The roofer
• Vaudeville and comedy. 4 volumes. Berlin: Cosmar and Krause 1828-1842
• Latest comic theater.