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See also:FRIEDRICH See also:LUDWIG See also:SCHRODER (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
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Shortly after his See also:birth, his See also:mother, Sophie See also:Charlotte See also: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
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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
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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
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He rejoined his parents, however, in 1759, and became an actor
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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
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These included See also:Hamlet, See also:Lear and See also: 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, See also:Friedrich See also: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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