Who is Karl Abt?

Karl Friedrich Abt (1743, in Stuttgart – 20 November 1783, in Bremen) was an into the future German actor.

Abt began acting in 1766, mostly in southern and south-west Germany. In Biberach, he abducted his wife Felicitas from a reputable relatives which refused to pay for her away. She was born in 1746 in Biberach, and gained a reputation as an excellent actress and as the first German actress which played the Hamlet.

Abt ventured through Saxony and Thuringia, finally introduction up a stage in The Hague (Den Haag) with the withhold of the Court and the tall society upon 16 October 1772 in the circulate of the direct to introduce the youngster German theatre to the Netherlands. He greatly contributed to popularise the German dramatic literature there. On his stage, Abt played the first translations of Christian Felix Weiße’s Romeo and Juliet and Lessing’s Emilia Galotti.

After a stay in Düsseldorf, the historical recordings locate Abt anew in 1773, travelling in Leiden where he had built a transportable wooden theatre. With this stage he continued travelling to ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Utrecht, Kleve, Nijmegen and finally again to The Hague where he was ruined by a local competitor. He travelled on to Haarlem where he finds retain from the Friends of the Arts. In Amsterdam his accomplish was prohibited by the authorities. Abt visited several villages in North Holland, finally Diemer-Meer close Amsterdam where he became completely popular.

A rasping illness in his intimates and the theatre company put an subside to his luck and forced him to sell the theatre to private investors. Abt himself became artistic supervisor. In 1776 however with this company went bankrupt. He recruited a other troupe and settled in Münster, visiting Göttingen, Hanover, Bremen and additional towns in the wider area. He drifting the giving out of the troupe in 1780, hired a new troupe in 1781 and continued travelling the area. Abt died in Bremen in 1783.