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SCHRODER, FRIEDRICH LUDWIG (1744-1816)

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SCHRODER, See also:FRIEDRICH See also:LUDWIG (1744-1816) , See also:German actor, manager and dramatist, was See also:born in See also:Schwerin on the 3rd of See also:November 1744. Shortly after his See also:birth, his See also:mother, Sophie See also:Charlotte Schroder (1714-1792), separated from her See also:husband, and joining a theatrical See also:company toured with success in See also:Poland and See also:Russia. Subsequently she married Konrad See also:Ernst See also:Ackermann and appeared with, his company in many German cities, finally settling in See also:Hamburg. See also:Young Schroder See also:early showed considerable See also:talent, but his childhood was rendered so unhappy by his stepfather that he ran away from See also:home and learnt the See also:trade of a shoemaker. He rejoined his parents, however, in 1759, and became an actor. In 1764 he appeared with the Ackermann company in Hamburg, playing leading See also:comedy parts; but these he soon exchanged for the tragic relies in which he became famous. These included See also:Hamlet, See also:Lear and See also:Philip in See also:Schiller's See also:Don See also:Carlos. After Ackermann's See also:death in 1771 Schroder and his mother took over the management of the Hamburg See also:theatre, and he began to write plays—largely adaptations from the See also:English, making his first success with the comedy See also:Die Arglistige. In 178o he See also:left Hamburg, and after a tour with his wife, See also:Anna See also:Christina See also:Hart, a former See also:pupil, accepted an engagement at the See also:Court theatre in See also:Vienna. In 1785 Schroder again took over his Hamburg management and conducted the theatre with marked ability until his retirement in 1798. The Hamburg theatre again falling into decay, the See also:master was once more summoned to assist in its rehabilitation, and in 1811 he returned to it for one See also:year. He died on the 3rd of See also:September 1816.

As an actor Schroder was the first to depart from the See also:

stilted See also:style of former tragedians; as a manager he raised the See also:standard of plays presented and first brought See also:Shakespeare before the German public. Schroder's Dramatische Werke, with an introduction by See also:Tieck, were published in four volumes (See also:Berlin, 1831). See B. Litzmann, Friedrich Ludwig See also:Schrader (Hamburg, 189o-1894); R. See also:Blum in the Allgemeines Theater-Lexikon (1842); and Brunier, Friedrich Ludwig Schroder (See also:Leipzig, 1864).

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