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Otto Devrient

1838 – 1894

German actor and playwright

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Lived 1838 – 1894 (aged 55). Otto Devrient was a German actor, stage actor, writer, playwright, director and theaterintendant.

Otto Devrient (born 3 October 1838 in Berlin; † 23 June 1894 in Stettin) was a German actor and playwright.

Devrient was the son of Philipp Eduard Devrient. He first went on stage in 1856, training in Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig. In 1863, he entered the Hoftheater in Karlsruhe, and moved to the Hoftheater in Weimar in 1873 as character role actor and director.

There, he made an impression with his staging of Goethes Faust. In 1876, he became chief director of the Hoftheater in Mannheim, in 1877 intendant of the new municipal theatre in Frankfurt, and after a tour through Berlin, Cologne, and Düsseldorf, he settled in Jena, where he received a PhD h.c.. In 1884, he became director of the Hoftheater in Oldenburg.

Works Zwei Shakespeare-Vorträge (Karlsruhe 1869) Zwei Könige (Karlsruhe 1867) Tiberius Gracchus (Karlsruhe 1871) Kaiser Rotbart (Karlsruhe 1871) Was wir bieten (Weimar 1873) Briefe Ifflands und Schröders an den Schauspieler Werdy (Frankfurt 1881) Das Freudenspiel am Hofe Ernst des Frommen

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Who was Otto Devrient?

German actor and playwright (1838–1894)

When was Otto Devrient born?

Otto Devrient was born on 3 October 1838 in Berlin.

When did Otto Devrient die?

Otto Devrient died on 23 June 1894 in Szczecin.

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Otto Devrient was an actor, stage actor, writer, playwright, director and theaterintendant.

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Otto Devrient was German.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Otto Devrient

· Wikidata: Q88289

· DBpedia: Otto Devrient

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