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 The grave of Anton Genast at the Friedhof vor dem Frauenturm, Weimar. Picture by Androom (05 Feb 2005) |
Genast, Eduard |
| SINGER, ACTOR, THEATRE DIRECTOR, DRAMATIST, NOVELIST (GERMANY) |
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BORN 15 Jul 1797, Weimar, Thüringen - DIED 3 Aug 1866, Wiesbaden, Hessen GRAVE LOCATION Weimar, Thüringen: Historischer Friedhof, Poseckscher Garten (eastern wall) |
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Son of Anton Genast. He had a bass-baritone voice and in 1814 he debuted as Osmin in Weimar. From 1818 to 1828 he worked in Leipzig. He married the singer Karoline Christine Böhler and they had five children. After a short time in Magdeburg he obtained an engagement for life in Weimar in 1829. From 1833 to 1851 he was the director of opera's in Weimar. In 1864 he left the theatre, but he continued owrking as a composer until his death in 1866 in the house of his daughter Doris Raff. Family • Father: Genast, Anton Related persons • was a friend of Liszt, Franz Events |
| 29/3/1828 | Premiere of Heinrich Marschner's opera "Der Vampyr". Eduard Genast played the vampire, Lord Ruthven. The opera was based on the play "Der Vampir oder die Totenbraut" (1821) by Heinrich Ludwig Ritter. The play was based on the short story "The Vampyre" (1819) by John Polidori. Polidori had based his story on a fragment by Lord Byron. [Byron, George Noel Gordon ] |
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The grave of Anton Genast at the Friedhof vor dem Frauenturm, Weimar. Picture by Androom (05 Feb 2005) |
Sources • Dressler, Roland & Jochen Klauss, Weimarer Friedhöfe, Böhlau Verlag, Weimar, 1996 • Der Vampyr - Wikipedia (EN) • Eduard Genast - Wikipedia (DE) |
