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Inspirational Quotes by August Wilhelm Iffland (German Actor, Playwright)

August Wilhelm Iffland (1759–1814) was a German actor, dramatist, and theatrical manager. A significant influence on German theatre, he was appointed manager of the Berlin National Theatre in 1798 and director-general of all the royal theatres in Prussia in 1811.

Born in Hannover, Iffland joined the Gotha court theater to study acting under Konrad Ekhof’s guidance. In 1779, after Ekhof’s death, Iffland went with the Gotha Company to Mannheim, where he created the part of Franz Moor in Friedrich Schiller’s Die Räuber (“The Robbers.”) Too, Iffland’s own plays achieved great popularity.

As a theatrical manager, Iffland oversaw the Mannheim theatre and maintained a conservative approach and repertory. In 1796, on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s invitation, Iffland appeared as a guest star on the Weimar court stage, charming his audiences with sincere and stylized portraits of pathetic and comic middle-class characters.

As an author, Iffland achieved comparable fame in the fields of domestic drama and sentimental comedy. His best-known plays are Die Kokarden: Ein Trauerspiel in Fünf Aufz (1791; “The Lawyers: A Drama, In Five Acts,”) Die Jäger (1798; “The Hunters,”) and Der Komet: Eine Posse in E. Aufz (1799.)

Iffland’s autobiography is Meine theatralische Laufbahn (1798; “My Career in the Theatre.”)

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He is great who can do what he wishes; he is wise who wishes to do what he can.
August Wilhelm Iffland
Topics: Greatness, Wisdom

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