Roderich Benedix
Julius Roderich Bendix ( born January 21, 1811 in Leipzig, † September 26, 1873 ) was a German playwright, actor and theater director.
Life
Roderich Bendix attended the Thomas School in Leipzig, but followed his passion for the theater and actors in 1831. He played in Bethmann's company for two years in Dessau, Bernburg, Köthen, Meiningen and Rudolstadt, then took a commitment in Westphalia, and later on the Rhine and has performed in Minden, Paderborn, Kleve, Krefeld, Mainz and Wiesbaden, until 1838 Wesel on the Lower Rhine came.
Here he succeeded in 1841 to bring his first play The mossy head, on the stage, which made the rounds on almost all stages of Germany with the most resolute acclaim. Do not reduce success had his second piece Doctor wasp.
Bendix took it in Wesel, the editors of People magazine " The speaker ", but moved in 1842 to Cologne, where he introduced himself by much attended lectures on Goethe's Faust. In 1844 he took over the technical management of the King James Theatre, which he led for a year, and worked since 1847 in the same capacity at the Cologne theater under Gerlachs Directorate, while he held at the same time again lectures on recent lyricist and playwright in Germany to a selected audience.
As in Cologne, the Rheinische music school was organized, including Bendix got there a teaching job. In 1855 he became the manager of the Municipal Theatre Frankfurt, however, put this place down in 1859 and returned to Cologne. Later he lived, intellectually always engaged, but in recent years, suffering physically, in Leipzig, where he died on 26 September 1873.
Work
As a dramatic poet Bendix has successes harvested as by August von Kotzebue hardly a writer of comedies. Most of his comedies were favorite pieces of the German people.
Even beyond Germany's borders found Bendix ' pieces recognition. His main strength lay not in the characteristic that rarely rose above the photographic reproduction of comfortable and more confident the average person, even in a poetic fundamental view of the world, but in the fullness of the situations in the colorful, entertaining exchange a busy scene, in the cheerful combinations of chance, in the complications and confusion, in the precise knowledge of the theater, and his old-fashioned but still effective effects. They were joined by a fresh mobile dialogue whose home baking awareness coincided with the same property of the figures, a non-glossy and rich, but pithy wit and a certain moralizing direction.
Also, as a people writer and storyteller Bendix has tried. In the posthumously published polemic The Shakespearomanie condemning an uncritical enthusiasm for Shakespeare.
Works
Dramatic works
- The misogynist. Comedy in 1 act, ca 1846.
- The mossy main
- Doctor wasp
- The Characteristics
- The old masters
- The cousin
- Obstinacy
- The process
- The Honeymoon
- The jealous
- The prison
- The tender relatives
- The Love Letter
- The guilt conscious
- Cinderella
- Lying
- A comedy
- The Founder's Day
- Mathilde
- Engagement, 1862
- The servants, 1865
Most of his stage works are included in his collected dramatic works (Leipzig 1846-74, 27 volumes ); also ( folk theater, das. 1882) and a collection of smaller pieces appeared a selection of the major comedies in 20 volumes under the title: House Theatre ( 8th edition, Leipzig 1880).
Other works
- German folk tales, 6 volumes, Wesel 1839-41, new edition 1851
- Niederrheinischer folk calendar, 1836-42
- Memorial book for life, Wesel 1841
- Pictures from the actresses life, 2nd ed Wesel 1851
- The Tramp, novel 1867
- The oral presentation, 3 volumes, 3rd edition Leipzig 1871
- The essence of the German rhythm, Leipzig 1862
- Catechism of the German versification, 2nd edition Leipzig 1879
- Catechism of the oratory, 3rd edition Leipzig 1881
- The Shakespearomanie. As a defense, posthumously, Stuttgart 1873