Ernst von Possart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German actor and director
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Ernst von Possart
- Ernst von Possart (11 May 1841 – 8 April 1921) was a German actor and theatre director. Possart was born in Berlin and was early an actor at Breslau, Bern, and Hamburg.
- Connected with the Munich Court Theatre after 1864, he became the oberregisseur in 1875.
- In 1877 he was made director of the Bavarian royal theatres; from 1887 to 1892 toured the United States, Germany, Russia, and The Netherlands; in 1895 to 1905 was general director of the Bayerische Hoftheater; and in 1901 opened the Prinzregententheater (Prince Regent's Theatre). In 1897, in return for Possart assisting him in gaining an orchestral post in Munich, Richard Strauss wrote a recitation for narrator and piano.
- They performed Enoch Arden in a number of cities.
- On February 15, 1878, Henrik Ibsen wrote him a personal letter commending him on his "genius" performance as "Konsul Bernick" in Ibsens play "Pillars of society" which had its opening date in Königliches Residenz-Theater, Munich 10 days earlier. In the private royal theatre (the Residenz) he produced several of Mozart's operas.
- Among his own roles were Nathan, Gessler, Mephisto, Iago, and Shylock.
- He edited German versions of King Lear (1875), The Merchant of Venice (1880), and Coriolanus; wrote the plays Der Deutschfranzösische Krieg (1871), Recht des Herzens (1898), and Im Aussichtswagen (1898); and published Aufgabe der Schauspielkunst (1895), Lehrgang des Schauspielers (1901), and descriptions of many of his own productions. In 1868 Possart married opera singer Anna Deinet.
- In 1875 their daughter Ernestine von Possart (1875-1946) was born.
- Ernestine was married to operatic tenor Robert Hutt and also had a highly successful career as an operatic soprano, using the stage name Ernesta Delsarta.
- In 1883 Possart and Deinet divorced, but the couple reconciled and were remarried in New York City in 1888.
- Possart died in Munich, Germany at age 79. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D.
- C.; Peck, H.
- T.; Colby, F.
- M., eds.
- (1905).
- New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.).
- New York: Dodd, Mead.
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