Eduard Devrient
(Philipp) Eduard Devrient (11 August 18014 October 1877) was a German baritone, librettist, playwright, actor, theatre director, and theatre reformer and historian. Devrient came from a theatrical family. His uncle was Ludwig Devrient and his brother Karl was the first husband of Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient.
Eduard Devrient
Siegfried Goslich: Die deutsche romantische Oper. Tutzing: Schneider, 1975 · Public domain
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He was born and studied in Berlin and performed in a number of German opera houses between 1819 and 1834, when he lost his singing voice and turned his attention to writing and acting. From 1844-6 he worked in Dresden as actor/director, and he directed the Hoftheater in Karlsruhe from 1852 until his retirement in 1870. He also sang in the 1831 Berlin premiere of Der Templer und die Jüdin (as Bois-Guilbert). He also took the part of Christ in the 1829 revival by his friend Felix Mendelssohn of J. Bach's St Matthew Passion, having previously sung the role of Carrasco in Mendelssohn's only publicly performed opera, Die Hochzeit des Camacho (1827). He wrote a number of plays and two other opera librettos, Die Kirmes and Der Zigeuner, both set by Wilhelm Taubert. In Karlsruhe, in the course of seventeen years, he not only raised it to a high position, but enriched its repertory by many noteworthy librettos. But his chief work is his history of the German stage, Geschichte der deutschen Schauspielkunst (Leipzig, 1848-1874). Devrient died in Karlsruhe. His son Otto Devrient also worked in the theatre.
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1801
Eduard Devrient born at Berlin.
1877
Eduard Devrient died at Karlsruhe.
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- 1.Devrient, Therese, in: Gudrun Wedel: Autobiographien von Frauen : ein Lexikon. Köln : Böhlau, 2010, S. 180f.
- 2.Karl Zahn: Gräber, Grüfte, Trauerstätten: die Friedhöfe und Begräbnisstätten der Kernstadt Karlsruhe, überarbeitete und ergänzte Neuauflage von Simona Maria Dietz und Wolfgang Wegner, herausgegeben vom Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe durch Katrin Dort und Volker Steck. verlag regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher u. a. 2022 (Veröffentlichungen des Karlsruher Stadtarchivs; 37), ISBN 978-3-95505-352-9, S. 184
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