- Bogumil Dawison
Bogumil Dawison (
1818 -1 February 1872 ) was a Germanactor .He was born at
Warsaw , ofJew ish parents, and at the age of nineteen went on the stage. In 1839 he received an appointment to the theatre atLemberg in Galicia. In 1847 he played atHamburg with marked success, was from 1849 to 1854 a member of the Burg theatre inVienna , and then became connected with theDresden court theatre. In 1864 he was given a life engagement, but resigned his appointment, and after starring through Germany visited theUnited States in 1866. Once a great actor, success went to his head, his wife died, his memory faded and he died in Dresden in 1872.Dawison was considered in Germany an actor of a new type; a leading critic wrote that he and
Marie Seebach swept like fresh gales over dusty tradition, and brushing aside the monotony of declamation gave to their roles more character and vivacity than had hitherto been known on the German stage. His chief parts wereMephistopheles , Franz Moor,Mark Antony ,Hamlet ,Charles V , Richard III andKing Lear .----
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* [http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00008362/images/index.html?seite=789 Detailed information (in German)]
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