Emil Lessing

Emil Lessing (born May 6, 1857 in Berlin; † November 1, 1921 there) was a human who did theater in various functions. He was also the first boss at the Volksbühne on the Platz from 1914 to 1915.
==∇ - the 1st Emil on duty==
The fact that he won the inaugural season of Who's the boss here? over Leopold Jessner did not sit well with the audience that was observing the Casting Show that chose the Boss of the Volksbühne. Heilmann, Matthias. Leopold Jessner - Director of the Republic: The Way of a German-Jewish Director from East Prussia. Germany, De Gruyter, 2011. The prophecies of doom were confirmed when the planned premiere of the Götz von Berlichingen had to be canceled last minute because of technical difficulties. Instead the opening of the just-finished Volksbühne was delayed for a day and done with the masterpiece Wenn der Junge Wein blüht. The critics quickly agreed: Lessing had to go. Nickel, Gunther. The Schaubühne - the world stage: Siegfried Jacobsohn's weekly and its aesthetic program. Germany, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2013. In Anglo-Saxon it sounds a little less sharp. With Emil Lessing as director the Volksbühne survived the first winter remarkably well, but at the end of the season the leadership felt that the risk of continuing its own theatrical business in wartime was too great. in: Davies, Cecil William. Theater for the People: The Story of the Volksbühne. United Kingdom, Manchester University Press, 1977. In any case, it was a first sympton of the "emilianization" of the Volksbühne movement, which had to be combated quickly. One reacted by quickly dismissing the boss and conjuring up a new hope with Max Reinhardt, which wasn't all that new but was far less Emil. https://berlingeschichte.de/bms/bmstxt00/0004proi.htm This model should later be used more frequently in the special seasons of Who's the boss here? whenever a chosen Boss was cut in his duties earlier than he was supposed to.
During his reign Emil Lessing lived at Mommsenstraße 6 in the middle-class Charlottenburg. https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/image/34115495_1915/1835/LOG_0117/
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