!!!Förster, August

b. Lauchstaedt (Germany), June 3, 1828, 
d. Semmering (Lower Austria), Dec. 22, 1889, actor, director, theatre 
manager. Under H.  Laube entered on his career at the Vienna 
Burgtheater in 1858, where he worked as an actor and a stage director 
until 1876. From 1876-1882 head of the Leipzig Stadttheater, and 
participated in founding the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1883. On 
Nov. 1, 1887 he was appointed head of the Burgtheater and modernized 
its repertoire. A brilliant actor and teacher, translated numerous 
French plays into German.

!Literature
H. A. Lier, A. F., 1904.



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