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BECKER, HEINRICH (1770-1822)

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BECKER, HEINRICH (1770-1822) , See also:German actor, whose real name was See also:BLUMENTHAL, was See also:born at See also:Berlin. He obtained, while quite a See also:young See also:man, an See also:appointment in the See also:court theatreat See also:Weimar, at that See also:time under See also:Goethe's auspices. The poet recognized his See also:talent, appointed him See also:stage-manager, entrusted him with several of the leading roles in his dramas and consulted him in all matters connected with the staging of his plays. For many years Becker was the favourite of the Weimar stage, and although he was at his best in See also:comedy, he played, to Goethe's See also:great See also:satisfaction, Vansen in See also:Egmont, and was also seen to great See also:advantage in the leading parts of several of See also:Schiller's plays; notably Burleigh in Maria See also:Stuart, Karl See also:Moor in See also:Die Rauber, and See also:Antonio in Torquato See also:Tasso. Becker See also:left Weimar in the See also:spring of 1809, played for a See also:short time at See also:Hamburg (under See also:Schroder) and at See also:Breslau, and then began a wandering See also:life, now joining travelling companies, now playing at provincial theatres. Broken in See also:health and ruined in See also:fortune he returned in 182o to Weimar, where he was again cordially received by Goethe, who reinstated him at the See also:theatre. After playing for two short years with indifferent success, he died at Weimar in 1822. Becker was twice married. His first wife, CHRISTIANE LuisE AMALIE BECKER (1778—1797), was the daughter of a theatrical manager and dramatic poet, Johann See also:Christian See also:Neumann, and made her first stage See also:appearance in 1787 at Weimar. Here she received some training from Goethe and from See also:Corona See also:Schroter, the See also:singer, and her beauty and See also:charm made her the favourite both of court and public. She married Heinrich Becker in 1793• She died on the 22nd of See also:September 1797. Her last See also:part was that of See also:Euphrosyne in the See also:opera Das Petermdnnchen, and it is under this name that Goethe immortalized her in a poem which first appeared in Schiller's Musen Almanach of 1799.

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